how complicated it is. i find it ironic that it took his meeting with president obama to really sort of open his eyes and to how complicated it s going to be to repeal obamacare. without having anything to replace it with. that s the real problem here, how do you tell 20 million people that you re not going to have insurance anymore and give them no alternative. i think that s the political problem for donald trump and republicans on the hill. is they have nothing, there is no alternative for all of these people who will be without health care. donald trump has said, doug, there s not going to be a lapse even of days. he he said that in his 60 minutes interview right after he was elected. but congressional republicans aren t so definitive about that. how can republicans really make any big changes to obamacare that would allow them to say, hey, we repealed it? i think the repeal vote will happen first, and then they ll be a long waiting period. before anything takes effect?
the repeal vote will be politically first and foremost of importance to republicans to fulfill that promise they ve made for six years. if they don t do it, they ll be politically a lot problems. republicans have talked about repealing obamacare for a long time without replacements in place. i spent two year, 2 1/2 years in congress i was going to say, you know working on different replacements be s and people l wine would call me and said, where s your replacement bill? this went on for a long time. this reinforces where republicans are on entitlements. these are tough complicated things. it took two years for obamacare to be enacted. when we enact big social program, it s difficult to repeal them, difficult to change them. once you create an entitlement, it s usually there to stay. one possibility is fix obamacare, call it trump care and call it a day. i don t think that will satisfy republicans. it s not going to. if he decides it s too much of a mess to go forward w
it s enormously complicated. that s why a lot of republicans on the hill now are a little worried about how to proceed. do they repeal and replace? do they repeal and then have a waiting period where they wait and try and get some democratic buy-in during that period. it s a big complicated thing to transition from one health care system to another. especially one that s been intact now for eight years. and i think the surge of enrollment you saw was obviously people who realized the results of the election meant that obamacare wasn t going to be there. there s a big push by the administration in the last enrollment period to get people to sign up. so this is going to be much more complicated i think then trump realized during the campaign. patty, what are democrats really worried about losing when it comes to obamacare or are they pretty confident that donald trump just won t have the political ability to do away with this? well, look, agree with ryan when he said that during the
60% are confidence he will create jobs in challenged areas. mika, those are extraordinary positive numbers. any president would like those numbers coming in. especially coming out of an ugly election. most presidents begin with the wind at their back like this but given how ugly this race was and given the fact his approval ratings were in the 30s until last week, why do you think these numbers have reversed so quickly? it s the same thing that a lot of people sort of for some reason couldn t see in the lead up that there s a large swath of this country that knows exactly who donald trump is and they attach his name with success. those are mandate numbers. period. every one of those things he got big numbers on, obamacare wasn t in his agenda. building the wall wasn t in his agenda. they think he can get things done. i m not saying it s right or wrong. i actually looked up some of these numbers yesterday and got slightly different numbers. his approval rating 34% during
what really happened was the market woke up and realized they elected an enormously pro-business president. one who is going to cut taxes on business and ease regulation and one that s going to make it easier for companies to make profits. really quickly before the second chart, it looks like nikki haley is in fact going to be a cabinet level u.n. ambassador. i think u.n. has always been cabinet level. just confirming. we don t have to confirm it. let s confirm. alex said 90 seconds. can i have my 90 seconds? go ahead. we re going to talk about rabbits more. okay. rabbits. so why did the stock market go up? tell us. so if you look at some of the specific sectors, you can see how they relate to the things that trump is talking about.