from the archives. this is actually a plan in motion on capitol hill, despite the president s instructions to let obamacare implode. you have senator lamar alexander from tennessee among a number of republicans bucking the president on this very issue, holding bipartisan hearings on how to stabilize the individual health insurance market and, quote, put out the fire. brianna is live for us. our senior cnn washington correspondent on the hill and you have what senator alexander is up to. this is a far cry from the message that they have been seeing from the president of the united states. reporter: that s right. this idea to just continue with repeal and replace, obviously, brooke, that would take only republicans because democrats aren t going to go along with it, and talking to congressional leadership aides, especially in the senate, they say we did everything we could. we couldn t get there. we tried and we tried and we tried and we couldn t, and clearly, the senate majority leade
experts can hope for. a lot weighing in saying if kelly can deflect and say, hey, look, go to the president s counsel to throw out questions to them. that can be a success in his area. i want to turn to health care quickly, jordan. we re seeing some movement towards bipartisan agreement here and what s happening and how is the white house reacting to this? so key chairman lamar alexander is going to hold a hearing about stabilizing the individual insurance markets. answer that s going to allow democrats or the committee s ranking member patty murray to give some info here for the first time in the process. the obamacare repeal and replace effort was a republican vehicle only. now, this is going to be a problem for the white house because president trump said he wants to led obamacare implode. and what senator alexander is talking about is preventing the president from doing that. doing things like withholding insurance subsidies. maybe messing around with
this white house briefing to start. a couple of questions certainly that sarah huckabee sanders will be asked about, including we know that the president has said on one hand, let obamacare implode. he s also still pushing folks on the hill to repeal and replace. this as we re learning that republicans are now reaching across the aisle to help fix obamacare, how the white house responds to that and also those phone calls or non-call calls between the president of mexico and also this conversation with the head of the boy scouts, how sarah huckabee sanders will handle that and so much more in the briefing. so stay tuned for that. we re also getting some new approval/disapproval numbers in from gallup so we ll have those for you. this is all on a day when the markets are looking mighty nice. you can see right now all the green on your screen, above the 22,000 mark on this wednesday, just about an hour and some change left of trading here. quick break, we re back with more news in just
is going to take out his anger on consumers and patients all across this country. in the meantime, at the very least, there is good news in that we have started a bipartisan process to try to take away from the president this discretionary power to hurt patients because of how mad he is that his bill has not passed. do your colleagues actually believe he would do that in the coming days? he has tweeted several times the best thing he could do is simply let obamacare implode. he s been engaged in a campaign of sabotage since inauguration day. he signed an executive order ordering all his agencies to undermine the affordable health care act. he pulled the advertising and marketing dollars. he told the irs to stop enforcing the individual mandates. if he were to stop paying insurance companies, it would be consistent with a regular campaign of sabotage, so we re not expecting anything other than for that trend line to continue, which is why it s
obamacare implode. and then do it. i turned out to be right. let obamacare implode. president trump there threatening to let the affordable care act go under after republican senators failed to pass repeal measure. the president has promised in the past to stop billions of dollars in government payouts to insurance companies, but the move could put the administration on shaky legal ground. let s bring in bob bianchi, criminal defense attorney, former head county prosecutor and trial attorney and heather hansen also a trial attorney. thank you guys both for being here. so kicking things off, we heard this from the president before. he talked about bailouts for insurance companies and stopping them. is this something that could ultimately get him in legal limbo? let s use the proper terms here. it s a subsidy and what was occurring here and with the argument from the trump administration and other republicans are is that congress did not appropriate the money