pressure is on for the republican senators who will make or break the new health care bill. watching closely from virginia, mom samantha mcgovern. her daughter, josephine, was born at just 24 weeks. that s considered a pre-existing condition. her mostly health care costs $27,000. samantha s worried what happens if insurance stops covering that bill. i want them to find a way to cover me and put it in the bill. don t leave it up to chance. don t leave it up to states. don t roll the dice and take the risk and take the gamble on my child s life. reporter: the bill does require states provide access to adequate and affordable health insurance, but those terms are not defined or guaranteed. states could allow insurers to charge some people with pre-existing conditions more. i m going to take the money that we would have spent on obamacare in washington and send it back home and let us do a better job with it. reporter: but with far less money. by one new estimate, $160 billion less
actually do and eventually indict one of these people or a federal crime, which is easy to do, there is going to be a legitimate concern over this being a hit job because collusion was the original stor story. rick: the story in the journal suggested this could very well take months. i think it is inevitable, it is going right through 2018, into the 2018 midterm elections and that could be a problem for president trump, his approval rating is now below 40%, they better get up above 40% by the middle of 2018 or a lot of republican candidates are going to be pushing back against his presidency. rick: will the journal be reporting on what s happening behind those closed doors? i think all of the press and washington will be trying hard to find out what is going on, not so much inside the grand jury but inside the mueller investigation. particularly with these special prosecutors, that is the way of the world, world leaks out.
remember health care reform? molly: repeal and replace, that was going to happen. rick: still in limbo as congress breaks for its august recess. congress leaving town with a lot of questions unanswered. live in washington with this. good afternoon, the immediate plan is for hearings and the committee that handles health issues after labor day. the panel s top democrat patty murray says they will look at stuff to stabilize the insurance markets with concerns that they are collapsing. that will be a bipartisan effor effort. meanwhile, a key republican is selling his proposal, a broader one giving governors more control of health care dollars. when you hear a republican say we ve got to move on, we haven t taken our best shot at replacing obamacare. why don t you take the money we
that natural tension between the president and congress but to keep president trump in particular specifically from accomplishing his agenda and the agenda is about lifting up the american people but at this point the only thing they can consider and care about it seems are themselves. molly: you had a pretty long wishlist there a moment ago, days are short when everyone returns to washington, what do you think and actually be accomplished? i think tax reform can be accomplished. democrats, 45 of the 48 democratic senator sent a letter to president trump and said they want to work with him, they want to make sure the middle class is prioritized over the top 1%. they want to make sure they don t increase the deficit through tax reform. there is a real opportunity here, the better deal democratic senators launch a couple weeks ago calls for oh trillion dollar infrastructure spending package. that is something president trump wants. the obstruction tammy mentioned, there is a lot of p
the journal broke this grand jury story, the news value is obviously significant. is that also an example of the leaks that are permeating the white house and washington? it is maybe permeating the white house, i agree that this is not surprising that they would impanel a grand jury. i think it is going to be a problem for somebody, because look, robert mueller has 36 lawyers working for him right now and i think this inevitably means there will be indictments of somebody associated with the trump campaign, probably not mr. trump himself. you don t impanel a grand jury without coming up with indictments eventually. rick: i want to talk about the grand jury but i am also curious to your reaction to the attorney general s press