softball growing up, but that feeling of hitting the ball and knowing it s going out like the catcher had last night in that cleveland win where you just drop the bat right away, berman has no idea what that s like but i m telling you i m going to take you behind the barn or the gym. no, no, behind the gym. only if i were in high school would you take me behind the barn. anything. all right. so what are we talking about this morning? take a guess. we re going to talk about the campaign, but we re going to look at it very kind of xs and os. almost like a strategy session of what they re doing now. where are they spending their time? which battleground states? what are they hoping to achieve? a big name now says that he s backing hillary clinton. who is it? we ll tell you. also, donald trump says he s looking for a fight with one of clinton s most popular surrogates. that s what john was just teasing me about. we ll give you those twists and turns. it was really a new low i
fight club election edition. joe biden talks about taking donald trump outside. trump taunts the vice president right back. donald trump trying to capitalize on the obamacare sticker shock, but trump seems to have a problem understanding how health care works in his own companies. just released this hour, hillary clinton s brand-new tv ad rolling out today featuring an oscar award winner. welcome back to early start. it s wednesday morning. i m john berman. i m christine romans. the first rule about fight club, you don t talk about fight club. this morning donald trump and vice president joe biden are in gross violation. they re both talking a lot about beating each other up. donald trump is also fighting a bit with his own message on obamacare and whether his own employees actually use it. republicans see the news of rising premiums of obamacare,
know, which is kind of odd. it s sort of like playing to the fact that people like his refreshing take on himself. he never apologizes. he never says anything s wrong. you know, when i vote for president i kind of want somebody with a first grade level of sort of maturity. that s just me. whether or not that view prevails i guess we ll find out on november 8th. i will see you behind the gym and the barn, josh rogan. which is the better place to get hit? i ve never been in a fight and don t want to. if i m not there in five minutes, start without me. see you later. come back soon, like in a half hour. a sticker shock for obamacare. a huge jump in premiums and ip surers dropping premiums. what will the 234eks president do. hillary clinton will defend and expand it. she will have a government health insurer to compete with private companies. she ll expand outreach to younger, healthier people. you have to get the healthy people to help reduce the cost.
clinton and barack obama for rising premiums under obamacare but you saw this push and pull between donald trump trying to stay on the message. his advisors wanted him to hammer it home and fighting his gutt instinct to want to settle any fight with anyone who has criticized him. did you see where biden wants to take me to the back of the barn. me? he wants it. i d love that. i d love that. mr. tough guy. you know, he s mr. tough guy. he s mr. tough guy when he s standing behind a microphone. he wants to bring me to the back of the barn. oh. some things in life you would love doing. reporter: that was donald trump responding to a comment biden made. trump is back on the campaign
for the insurance companies to keep premiums lower. another is to exchange how much you ban how much older people pay versus younger people to decrease the cost for younger people overall. the ultimate test is can we keep health care costs low so premiums don t have to go up. we have to redouble the efforts of that. i think the three or four fibbings afixes will be enough to stabilize the exchanges and to keep costs low for all americans not just the ten million in the exchanges. first of all, when you say there are going to be subsidies and tax credits that help 80%, 85% of the people whose premiums are going to be going up yep. i don t know that that fully covers all of the increase. even if it does, that s still more than a million americans who are going to not have help and who are going to see increases of, on average, 25%. that s a lot of money for the