it haven t spoke with the director since this story broke which seems like a month ago but was indeed want the loft 24 to 48 hours. let s be precise. if you been in direct contact with the. it s when he came to testify in short session shortly before he was fired. i haven t had contact with him sense. president trump tweeted about, quote, tapes. will your committee subpoena and recorded white house conversations between the president and the then fbi director james comey? i would certainly support any kind of a process that we need to obtain the best evidence of these conversations. if those tapes exist, we ought to ask for them, and if they are not provided voluntarily, we should subpoena them, but we definitely need to get to the bottom of this and also obtain the very best evidence and that would be the very best evidence. will you see the transcripts
and i bet the intrepid investigators can find them though they haven t found them yet. they would like him appear next wednesday morning before the oversight committee. how vulnerable could the republicans be in the mid-term elections? this covery vulnerable and are very vulnerable because republicans are at the mercy of the president and his approval rating and right now his approval rating remains in the basement. it s around 40%. some polls recently have shown it below 40%. that is lower than obama really ever got in his terms two terms as president. this is t.a.r.p. tantamount to george bush after katrina approval ratings. i mean, his approval ratings are really, really bad right now, and there s a direct correlation between the performance of the party s politicians running for re-election and running for election and the president s
to get involved and send over that memoranda? i haven t had that opportunity yet. i expect to have that opportunity in the near future. we re certainly going to want to make sure that we get these materials and, again, i can t imagine that they will make that difficult or oppose us in doing so if they exist and once again we re relying simply on the newspaper report, although i think many of us found that report to be very credible. do you see a special prosecutor being named to investigate all of this. in other words, are there enough republicans on board to support that. at this point rod rosenstein could make the legislation. i did make the case and i m sure there are very good, excellenting from at the justice
perfect with that type of vast, encompassing legislation. every time we have sought to improve the legislation our colleagues sought to slay it. our opportunity to improve upon it haven t been there. the answer to that is not at the end of the day having people pay more, have less coverage, less people insured, and a body blow to so many of our states that ultimately expanded medicaid coverage and brought more people into the health insurance market as a result. one of the reasons why there is such inflation in health care, and one of the reasons so many americans are seeing their presu premiums rise is because of the pharmaceutical industry and the prices of the pharmaceutical industry, hospital stays and medical devices. those three things are the biggest drivers of health inflation. what did obamacare do for any of them? as i understand it, there really
benefits are unlocked for millions of americans, everything will change this law will be popular. but look, april 2010, right after this was passed, 46-40, favorable, unfavorable on the new health care law. democrats, said hey, only going up from here. six and a half years later, it actually down slightly, 45% unfavorable, 43% favorable. democrats said the politics of this issue would change as obamacare is implemented and the politics of it haven t. and that is why republicans have kept right on saying, repeal and replace from april 2010 all the way until today. and of course, you just heard dan donovan, the republican say this a few minutes ago, republicans in terms of the politics of this, they ve had some things they could point to, for instance, they had obama saying when this originally passed famously, hey, if you like your doctor, keep your doctor. if you like your plan, keep your plan. it wasn t always the case. just before the election, news that there were some premium