Corporate america continues cutting jobs to deal with the laws unintended consequences the urban institute, a leftleaning think tank, says obama should scrap a key component of the law all together, employer mandate. Backers of obamacare take the think tank seriously but will they take this controversial suggestion to heart now . We have washington correspondent peter barnes with the very latest. Peteer . Gerri, thats right. The urban Institute Published this paper that the government could eliminate the employer mandate without reducing Health Care Coverage that much nationally. The mandate says any company with more than 50 fulltime employees who work at least 30 hours a week must provide Health Insurance for them or face penalties. 9 institute says that requirement has been creating labor market distortions like pushing companies to higher fewer workers or reduce their hours. It site cites plans by lands end, Regal Entertainment and seaworld to name a few, to reduce hours of parttim
Babies thinking, weve only seen one. You just have to be older than ten months to have seen your first impeachment trial already in this country. This is where we are. True, true, true, true. Rachel yes . Fascinating to hear you with Michael Cheryl talking about what she called a possible Reconnaissance Mission in the house. And to realize shes using the term professionally. She doesnt throw that word around as i would as a air force veteran, former federal prosecutor. Stunning information she was delivering. What ive been trying to track out is what records might there be of the names of people being given those tours by republican staff or republican members. And apparently there are some ways they could have slipped past having their names recorded as having entered the complex. But most people, almost everyone, has to get a record of their entry into that complex at this point. But who knows what happened that day . Right. But it is interesting that you raised that point about her
The democrats are worried about the jungle primary system, concerned that too many hutt districts they hope to flip this fall. Already some evidence that may be the one big contest has been a republican has made it o the ballot, which could help with downlot races in november. Kyung lah, a lot to get through. Walk us through, so much talk about this socalled jungle primary and how this was going to shake out in california. Walk us through it. Well, there are a lot of certainties and theres a lot of questions. Lets start with what is certain. You mention, christine, the California Gov race. We know thLieutenant Governor, gavin newsom, hes a victor in the primary. He advances. John cox, who trump tweeted support to. He advances. A concern for the gop here was, their nominee wasnouldnt make through. Cox makes itrough, that is expected to help people who are down ballot. The big question, the u. S. House races. There are seven seats that democrats hope the flip. Seven seats that Hillary Cl
Interest in buying greenland and greenland responds theyre open for business but not for sale. President ial retreat. President trump is talking about Mental Health not background checks in his First Political rally since el paso and dayton. There is a Mental Illness problem that has to be dealt with. Its not the gun that pulls the trigger. Its the Person Holding the gun. And good day. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. President trump reigniting his today with the socalled squad of democratic congresswomen of color after the unprecedented step to pressure israels Prime Minister netanyahu to block two muslim congresswomen from an official visit to israel and the palestinian territories. Now Michigan Democratic congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has rejected a belated offer from israel to visit her relatives only if she remains silent about the antiisrael boycott. Tlaib tweeted i have decided that visiting my grandmother under these oppressive conditions goes against everything i believe in. Pa