week if the health committee doesn t come out with an agenda of things they want to get into serious issues that need to be resolved, similar bipartisan things are happening in the house of representatives and where we should have started months ago. for example. congress will likely need steps to shore up the individual insurance markets. bill: thanks from the hill there. shannon: more on this let s bring in guy benson. political editor end of discussion today, a great book. you don t want to miss that. there is a lot going on in washington in the meantime. a number of senators saying we re done with this. it s over. close the chapter. you had mick mulvaney, the leader of the budget department, former member on the hill and house side saying no, the white house still wants to stay on healthcare senator john cornyn says he needs is
life so his brothers in arms could live theirs. bill: five men whose lives he helped save were there to watch him receive that medal at the white house. well done. we have the highest stock market in history. we have gdp on friday. got very little mention. 2.6 is a number that nobody thought they would see for a long period of time. the enthusiasm level is incredible. we have a lot of tremendous things going. shannon: president trump praising the performance of his markets. the dow rising to 60 points yesterday to finish out the day at 21,891. the president continued to tap the economy this morning. stock market could hit all-time high again. 22,000 today. we re watching closely. with 18,000 only six months ago on election day.
addly so. we ve been saying forever we need to fix this and we weren t able to do so. so i think we ought to stick with it certainly. but i think we ought to do it in a way we can actually see the end. and the end is going to be sitting down with our colleagues from the other side of the aisle and getting something passed. bill: we ll figure out what democrats are willing to give on that and we ll discuss that. a great debate today. does an effective tax strategy make it better or easier for republicans? easier. what the president put out with the policy particulars, it s republican orthodoxy, lower the rates, broaden the base. i hope we can move forward. it is vital now for republicans to move forward on tax reform. bill: the book you ve written is getting a lot of attention because many have seen it as your dislike of the
prominent opposition leaders. in each of the cases because of security video or family members filming you can hear family members scream they re taking my husband and father away. one was in his pajamas dragged away and his daughter is screaming it s a dictatorship. to put fear into the heart of opposition. both leaders are former mayors of caracas and under house arrest and called for public opposition to what mad ear owe is trying to do now. rewrite the constitution. shannon: it s terrifying video in a country where we have a lot of freedom. what can the u.s. do about this in a foreign nation? the u.s. took more steps yesterday. they put the president under sanctions barring him from any activity, economic activity with the u.s. his reaction to that was really just snide. he said bring on more sanctions, donald trump. the real question is will the
doing their thing and they want to move on. mulvaney saying there should be no significant votes on other legislation, anything, until healthcare gets passed. i think that the white house is probably channeling a lot of conservative and republican voters still sitting around saying it s been seven years, you guys, you couldn t get the vote done last week. can you maybe get to 50 votes somehow. it sounds like there are certain members of the senate working towards that, lindsey graham, bill cassidy, rand paul was at the white house but based on what we just heard in some of those sound bites and what you re reporting leadership and key members of committees sounding awfully like they are eager to move on. shannon: we had governor huckabee on last hour and he talked about the fact that the problems are on the hill. they need to get it together as republicans as a party. here is what he said. republicans in congress need to start acting like republicans. they need to work with this