brewing as you see it now? the biggest issue will be with republicans. four senators have come out and said they have issues regarding the medicaid expansion. you have this battle shaping up from senators from states tho w.h.o. have the medicare expansion versus those who didn t. right there out of the gate that means that this can t pass unless they can do something to win them over. on the house side you have conservative republicans saying that they want a full repeal of obamacare. they see this as congressman justin amash had said, this is obamacare 2.0, not what they think they were running on, that they were running on a full repeal. i think there will be a lot of work that will have to be done to win over a lot of republicans on this bill. compromise, matt, nobody is happy. everybody feels like they lost something. obviously, that s where you want to wind up. the president in his tweet about the plan did suggest this is a first draft, something to be debated. he also said th
politics. it s really a conundrum, a predictable one. it s a mess right now. of course, it s going to go to committee and be marked up. i don t see how you fix this. republicans talk a lot about access. right. that more people will have access to health insurance. i don t know who said it. maybe it was you. but somebody likening access to americans also have access to bmws. if you can afford a bmw, you have access to it. it doesn t mean you can afford health care coverage. we saw congressman jason chaffetz on, who all but admitted people will lose their coverage. we do think we can expand coverage so people have access to a quality health care product they want. more access but less coverage? that might be the byproduct? well, yes. so, is that going to fly?
them more flexibility, which is what we heard the governors in town literally last week, they told us we want more flexibility. there s a lot to like about this. do you know what i really like about it? we re going to do it in an open and transparent way, unlike what the democrats did with the affordable care act where they slammed it through in less than 24 hours, it s going to go through a mark-up. you ve got two committees of jurisdiction that will offer amendments and we ll have this debate over the next several weeks. what if it leaves lower income americans uninsured? we want them to be able to provide, have a method to get access to it. there are things we like, for instance, with pre-existing conditions, people allow iing -i think there s a lot of good things. but access for lower income americans doesn t equal coverage. well, we re getting rid of the individual mandate. we re getting rid of those things that people said that they don t want. americans have choices.
satisfying answers or they are important enough to wind up making a big part of the scrutiny of the president, so what is driving you right now? my concern here is that we don t really know what role the president is going to have in his business, and we don t know how much attention he will pay. you have found any of the filings yet? remember when he came out with the big stacks, and we were not allowed them see them, and a lot of them would have required filing with different states of registry? has the paperwork been done to put into effect what he said would be the cure for conflicts? yes and no. there s paperwork in that shows he has been taken off as an officer of the project or companies, and the ownership is still in his hands and it reports to a trust that he controls and benefits from, and he can choose not to exercise the control over the trust but
line and you get shades of this all the time the way they are operating that. thank you so much. we are following a lot of news this morning, so let s get right to it. it is obamacare gone. we repeal all those taxes and mandates and subsidies. we have seen some republican opposition to it saying it doesn t go far enough. they are going to come far short of the coverage numbers that obamacare provides. no question something happened. is it surveillance or a tire tap. if it s true, it s earth shattering. and there s no reason for us not to have trust and confidence in director comey. unregulated, unvetted travel is not a universal privilege when national security is at stake. announcer: this is new day