Good to have you with us tonight, folks. Thanks for watching. Ive been just Walking Around the office all day long, saying i cant believe they did it. I mean, they actually shut down the government. They actually have decided to hurt people because they didnt legislatively get their way. Elections dont matter. Oh, its the money that matters. You know, the backdrop of this is that the Republican Party always says that, oh, theyre for the private sector. The private sector. Theyre the champions of small business. Yet today theyre hurting small business. Theyre the champions of the entrepreneurs out there. You know what, folks, i come from the private sector. And you cant eat pr, okay . And if you dont do the work, you dont get paid. So a lot of americans, i think, are out there wondering, well, if the government is shut down, why are congressional members still on the payroll . Oh, wait a minute. They got this essential nonessential thing going on. What do you think . Health care essenti
Well, its friday evening, its the start of the weekend. I think Speaker Boehner needs probably a really stiff drink tonight. Its been a rough week. Because you see the pendulum is not swinging in favor of the republicans. Theyve tried all week long. The fight against obama care for republicans has been all about lies and deception all week long. And now theyre down to the shutdown and they have very few options. A lot of americans are out there i think wondering what are the republicans thinking. What is their strategy . Whats their next move going to be. Well, now we know. This is rand paul and Mitch Mcconnell, talking about winning and losing. Im all wired up here. I just did see i just go over and over again, were willing to compromise, were willing to negotiate. I dont think they polltested we wont negotiate. I think its awful for them to say that over and over again too. Yeah, i do too. I just came back from a twohour meeting with him and it was basically the same view privately a
Youre not telling us whether or not youre proactively determining whether, say, an under 26yearold is actually eligible for the subsidies youre trying to sell them and the problem is once we learn whether or not they were eligible and if they werent, people in good faith will be signing up for subsidies that theyre not eligible for. I think youre asking a different question, which is are we doing 100 Income Verification on everyone. And subsidy eligibility verification. Yes. So part of the question in the application process is are you depending on your parents, on your parents tax plan so that is part of the questioning that goes on and if so we move them in that direction. More importantly, part of what youre asking is the Income Verification, which is done in 100 of the cases. Im not asking about Income Verification. Okay. Im asking if a person signs up, were they offered credible employer insurance, because the mandate has been delayed, you dont have that Verification Tool so you h
Insurance is real important. And today it hangs in the balance of a website or a promise here and there. It doesnt mean any government takeover. What the president said and everybody said all along, there are going to be changes brought about by the Affordable Care act. If the president knew that these letters were coming, that raises some serious questions about the sales job of obama care. These folks need to stop scaring everybody. Why are you cutting these people from their insurance . Well, dave, were not cutting people. Were actually transitioning people. Create minimum standards of coverage. Minimum services that every Insurance Plan has to provide. If he does not succeed with obama care, expansive liberalism, i think it will be set back a full generation. I refuse to see this country in all of us shrink from these struggles, which are our responsibility and our time. Because what we are now talking about in our childrens day will seem to be the ordinary business of government.
The roundtable comes as a new poll out just moments ago finds the majority of americans, 52 , think the United States handling of the pandemic is worse than other countries. That disapproval over the handling of the crisis is something that the Biden Campaign appears to be drilling into in their attacks against President Trump. While the Trump Campaign and their allies are sharpening their attacks against the democratic ticket. This morning were learning that their strategy may be worrying some in their party. Meanwhile, were getting our first look at how voters are reacting the the biden harris ticket. A new Reuters Ipsos poll shows 46 of adults in that poll said they would vote for a biden harris ticket. 38 said they would vote for President Trump. Nbcs ali vitali is in wilmington, delaware, ahead of that biden harris event just a couple hours from now. So we saw them preview what their campaign is going to look like at that first event together on wednesday. How effective was that .