pediatric services among them. in other words, health care. health care. elise jordan, so you have mainstream republicans and moderate republicans against the bill for that reason. you have conservatives against the bill because there aren t enough free market incentives there to actually try to get some free enterprise into our health care system. there is no wonder that this thing sitting at, what, 17% approval rating nationwide. why vote for that bill? joe, i just can t help but to feel that this was really hijack by the surance companies, that their lobbying effort on president trump was really successful just because this is a bill that, you know, so many consumer groups don t approve of but the insurance companies overwhelmingly do. their pitch they can t offer all of these service they can t afford it and the markets are
hard under this and changes on that front. that could cost more money. listen. we believe that we do need to add additional assistance to the people in the older cohorts. if a person in the 50s and 60s has more health care costs. the tax credit adjusts for that. we believe we should are more assistance. that is what we are looking at. maybe changes coming this week and the house members who vote for this thing as it stands will get creamed by the aarp with the lobbying effort. absolutely. you would expect them to because the aarp has many members and supporters who supported the house members as they supported trump. there has been concern he is not following through and backing the people that helped back him to get him into office. also this morning, 9:00 a.m., fbi director james comey testifies in front of the intelligence committee. expected to say there is no
doesn t take into account changes that might happen over the next few days, and we are getting a sense of what those changes might be, and do you think the number 26 is likely to be going up or down at this point? likely to go up even though we have seen a successful lobbying effort on behalf of the evidence, and certainly speaker ryan being open to making changes to the bill after initially being reluctant to do so, and even if it passes the house of representatives, johns, we know it s going to go to the senate and it s dead on arrival in many ways because democrats will stand united against the bill and you will see a lot of centrist republicans that will not go for it either because of the cuts in the medicaid program, and among other things as well, and as much as we saw president trump just a few hours ago, he spoke to reporters on air force one coming back from florida, and he said things were going well and things were going great, as he often does say, and things are not nec
he doesn t want it. we ve heard that both john boehner and kevin mccarthy want him, they don t care he said no, they re trying to do their best to push him into doing it. do you have any indication of what might happen in terms of that lobbying effort with paul ryan? he announced today, or actually it was broken today that he suspended doing fund-raisers for the next 48 hours, which a lot of people took as a sign that he may be reading the tea leaves. these are bidenesque tea leaves at this point. that he might actually run. or might actually become speaker. honestly, it s not in his best interests. so if he ever wants to run for higher office, this a part-time this is not a part-time job. this is a very temporary job. whoever is the next speaker is not likely to last beyond the next 18 months left of boehner s term because everything that s left to do for this legislative term is completely unpopular with their own conference. i mean, you have to raise the debt ceiling by early no
resigning he literally walked up to the podium singing zip-a-dee- doo-dah. now he might have to stay. it s sort of like he should have expected it, right? because every single thing he s stride to do with these guys has been completely like, you know, pulling teeth. and he s never been able to convince them of anything. why did he actually think he would convince them of letting him go easily, quietly into the night was going to be so easy? i don t know. when he tried to do it on his own terms, it s almost like the universe rose up and was like no, john boehner, you don t get to do anything on your own terms, don t you realize what this job meant? in terms of the other options, obviously there s all this attention on paul ryan. he could not be more clear that he doesn t want it. we ve heard that both john boehner and kevin mccarthy want him, they don t care he said no, they re trying to do their best to push him into doing it. do you have any indication of what might happen in term