It sells for just over 2,300. That comes out to about 2 a beer. Up to you. Buy it if you want. Celebrate. Im sandra smith. Heres Harris Faulkner in for shepard smith. After a victory, republicans are getting ready for the next battle over healthcare in america. It wont be easy. With one republican senator saying it has zero chance of moving forward. Others say it has a bumpy road ahead. Well have updates from capitol hill and the white house. When Chris Wallace joins me, ill ask him how people feel about the changes proposed so far. Unemployment just hit its lowest level in a decade. What it means for our economy and your money. Are two of the planets most dangerous nations about joining forces . A connection with iran and north kor
korea. And who is trying to kill kim jongun . The assassination accusation. Its friday. Time for the news. Im Harris Faulkner in today for shepard smith. You might call it a healthcare hangover. Some bracing for changes to a republican Healthcare Bill that
essential benefits in arizona. so it really is going to be a very different and much more checkered playing field than what you have under obamacare. harris: sure. then you have the players like rand paul, the senators, ted cruz that said you have to repeal it all and start over. you have mayor key people that we need to watch. you have lisa murkowski of alaska that doesn t like the medicaid point. let s talk about the six or seven senators to keep our eye on and what we re watching for. on the one hand, you have the hardliners. rand paul, ted cruz, mike lee. they were quiet yesterday. they didn t say it doesn t go far enough. in the past they have said they don t want government regulation of healthcare. even with this bill, with all the changes, repeal and replace, a lot of government regulation of healthcare. so it will be interesting to see how far they re willing to go or are they going to push for more.
harper dropping the ball. in particular let s change the subject. i want to go back to jonathan. just that s you bring up a good point and we could debate the cbo numbers. but why? to answer your political question, i think it goes back to what i said before. i wonder if it s part of a negotiating position. no matter what the president proposes he puts the republicans on the defensive. they have to come back and say, well no, we re not going to do what you want to do, whether it s $250,000 or a million. as we ve seen for since at least 2010 when the new congress came in, republicans on capitol hill aren t going to do anything. mike barnicle, if i were a republican on the campaign trail right now i would have said three weeks ago, i didn t have a whole lot to campaign on other than overblown rhetoric, i can talk about the obama health care tax. i don t care what mitt romney s stupid people said. obama passed and it s a law of the land a health care tax. messed that up.
the people who would have been eligible for additional coverage under obamacare, now are not. there s a bunch more governors still looking at it. what s the justification? for opting out? they re saying we ve been given the chance by the supreme court to get free one thing from washington, we re going to do it virginia governor bob mcdonnell is thinking about it. another big state you could potentially have 26 governors, democrats say that won t happen what does that mean? it s half the country would not be buying in. you know, theoretically the whole thing works because of scale and if you don t have the size of people getting into those exchanges air got a real problem. they were counting on those states, all states, participating so when you had the 26 states sue, and then win on that point, on the medicaid point, then all of a sudden you ve thrown the door open with respect to how you re going to fund obamacare going down the road. the counter argument, there s
talking a lot about her the itty-bitty apartment she calls it that her mom grew up in, her dad going off to the water plant at the same time he was fighting ms. she has an authentically middle class experience that they re rolling out as another way to try to contrast with the romney background. there was a question i had about a politico story the other day, there were democrats concerned she wasn t campaigning for house members. and it hasn t always been the case that first ladies would go out and do these kinds of races? as you know, the house members have been whining about the president not doing enough for them either. jim mess seen in and david plouffe have been blunt, first thing s first, they re worried about themselves. house and senate later. her story resonated with the middle class and the challenges they face at this point. she s been a big part of the president s effort to reach out to veterans, big program to hire veterans, something else that s up on politico