point that you make a number of people using medicaid right now has exploded the last couple of years. as i recall it has to do with the creation of obamacare. right. ed: we will cover all these new poor people that s a noble goal. we should all be trying to help the poor, but they never quite paid for it did they? they did not. it s unsustainable currently and it s the future. president trump has done the right thing. he primed the pump the economy could not be doing better on some levels. taxpayer and market we are being responsible. not only the annual budget where we are spending too much and taking in too less also the long-term liabilities of entitlements of social security, medicare and medicaid. we have people living longer. that s a good thing. but we also have to take care of them. ed: i mentioned run away spending under president obama. we should be fair and point out under president trump we don t know how weir goin we re g to pay for these tax cuts.
obamacare. trump tweeting out that he wants to support her. you re seeing that because the republicans want a nancy pelosi speakership. to me, it s interesting to see. some of the more radical folks the socialists to get in line with nancy pelosi. i d like to leland: there s no sluder political operator than nancy pelosi. do you worry that all of a sudden he gets in, the house has the power or the purse, they can make things uncomfortable for the president with putting forth a lot of bills that are very popular politically across the country that the president will not want to sign. yeah, i do agree with that. i worry about that. the congress does get to decide where the money goes and how much we re spending. the thing to look at is if you look at it politically, what the democrat message right now? anti-trump. that s about it. what are they putting out from their elected officials to say
say under the constitution s appointment clause, no person can serve in a senior cabinet job like attorney general unless they have already been nominated by the president and confirmed by the senate. and they say, in fact, everyone who s ever been acting attorney general has been in some job where they have been nominated by the president and confirmed by the senate, so they say, for a statutory reason and a constitutional reason, the president can t do this. they say the actual attorney general is rod rosenstein, and they want the judge to say that. this comes in a lawsuit that maryland filed against the trump administration that included jeff sessions as one of the defendants over the future of obamacare. so with sessions out, the question is who s going to take his place on the lawsuit, and the state of maryland says it should be rod rosenstein, that he s the acting attorney general, and they want this judge to say that. justice correspondent pete williams there with the fight ov
26% of americans said healthcare was the number one issue, 23%, right behind that, immigration and 19% said the economy and jobs. last weekend, the president said the economy might be boring for folks to we will talk about immigration to get people fired up. in some ways, my question is when you look at immigration and healthcare, what is the most important issue? i want stronger borders or i don t want this or i want obamacare in place i want repeal and replace? other polling is going there. jillian: the last one on the topic of obamacare, 52% say repealing the law entirely or parts of it. 47% say let s leave it as is. rob: it is more popular now than it ever was. people have seen a lot of the flaws over the last couple years and what happened since and blaming it saying the repealing of obamacare taking back obamacare is raising my premiums, i have to pay more, prescript drugs going up.
opposition of obamacare. remember the vote? yeah. let s get this expletive done. i want kacandidates fair and square. on what they believe in. joining us now, moveon.org adviser, john weaver and sahil is back with us. what we talk about all the time is the economy s not bad, not equal. unemployment is lower. more jobs have been created. on most measures if i were the communications director for the president i would have that underscored all the time. are democrats worried about that and why aren t republicans doing better because of it? i don t think democrats are worried about that because i think one of the things that stephanie was talking about that voters care about is health care and the economy and when i say the economy the last three weeks