people still left in the exchanges. so let s discuss now. hello, every one. welcome to the program. hey, don. so, amanda, the president has said many, many times that republicans failed to repeal obamacare, if they did, that he would let it fail. is this the fix that republicans were looking for all along, do you think? well, here. i think trump is right on the policy, but again, the way he goes about things are a little questionable. i m not a huge fan of using executive orders to enact drastic policy changes. that said, as someone who buys health care on the individual market, who has seen the pain of premium increases with obamacare, i m extremely hopeful that now being able to buy insurance across state lines, possibly from different associations that can meet my family s needs, i m very optimistic as what s to come. i think it s going to be rocky
well, here. i think trump is right on the policy, but again, the way he goes about things are a little questionable. i m not a huge fan of using executive orders to enact drastic policy changes. that said, as someone who buys health care on the individual market, who has seen the pain of premium increases with obamacare, i m extremely hopeful that now being able to buy insurance across state lines possibly from different associations that can meet my family s needs, i m very optimistic as what to come. i think it s going to be rocky the next year and a half. if i were advising him i would have asked him to delay the changes until perhaps january so the insurers would have time to catch up in the new enrollment year which is usually through october to november. but, you know, i am hopeful for this. i think it s the right policy, but trump doesn t always do things in the smoothest fashion. okay. so, let s continue on and talk. i m going to let you weigh in, maria. the president was s
and jack kingston, former congressman, also former senior adviser to the trump campaign. that s not helpful when it comes to timing about why donald trump fired fbi director comey now. well, i don t know. he s criticized for dragging out an investigation. this has been going on, apparently, since 2015. he has had no proof whatsoever that there was any collusion or coordination between the trump campaign and russia. and then he s criticized for going slow on it. and he does what every bureaucrat in washington, d.c., does. that is, i need more money. so i don t know so what? you tell to speed up, that s the response in washington, d.c.. now, this isn t the reason given. the reason, i would assume, is sort of music to democrats ears, although it seems a little questionable. because the deputy ag in his letter recommending that comey go is talking about the hillary clinton investigation and how that was handled. and that coyle made mistakes in this, brian. right. and there s a lot
which is contrary to the committee. it is doing better on the senate side. i think the fbi under comey is a little questionable, too. i think it might be time for an independent counsel. on the issue of attatax retu tax reform is something that it seems like the president wants to take up. are you comfort passing a new tax code? the president has to disclose his assets, his liabilities. the one thing he doesn t have to disclose is his tax liability. m saying perspectively, should we have a law, the president, vice president, all the appointees and every member of
it here, you are a republican but you are also a not a trump lover, let s put it that way. which is to say you re more of a trump hater. sitting where you look right now, give us a sense of what you think the political implications of the comey announcement is today. well, there s almost nothing as bad in the last 10, 11 days of the campaign than hearing you re going to be on the front page connected to anthony wei r weiner. in an fbi investigation. in an fbi investigation. it s almost like this was created to be an awful time for hillary clinton. it will grab everything for a couple days and the question is the campaign will demand this to not be as murky and it will go in one of two ways. the clinton campaign should be careful about picking wars with the fbi, bury weiner and see. i thought the john podesta statement was a little questionable. but if trump were jeb bush, he d go to five points ahead. you said the john podesta statement was defensive. do you think calling f