reach the 60 vote margin. so instead of changing the rules which is up to mitch mcconnell and the republican majority, why doesn t president trump, democrats and republicans in the senate sit down and try to come up with a mainstream nominee? look, when a nominee doesn t get 60 votes you shouldn t change the rules. you should change the nominee and let s just give me one minute here because this is important. let s look at the history, okayt our nominee was merrick garland. mitch mcconnell broke 230 years of precedent and didn t call him up for a vote. it wasn t in the middle of an election campaign, it was march. second, then, now we looks ke we have the 6 he votes to prevent gorsuch from getting on. now, that doesn t mean you have to change the rules. each side didn t get their nominee. let s sit down and come together. our republican friends are er acting like you know they re a
to the decifit. the republicans say it would cost $701 billion to the decifit if we keep the health care billion, so they re only about a trillion apart. the difference here is scoring from a congressional budget office, and here s the problem, gregg, when you put as a former cbo director doug holts-akin says, garbage in, garbage out, i m going to cut $500 million from medicare as democrats did, they say okay t. will come out this way, but there s no plan to do that, there s no plan to reduce the cost of medicare and that original bill would have been way into the red had they not taken out something called the doc fix, that is scheduled reductions in payments to patients. they had to fix it, take that out or the bill would have been in the red, $300 billion, then they had to pass it outside the health care bill without paying for it. had it stayed in the health
each other, don t like the way each other is pursuing the program, the united states is trying to deal with that delicately but it s not easy. megyn: major, thank you very much. folks, whatever is said at this nuclear sum ate, at this briefing here, it will be streaming on foxnews.com, and so while we are awaiting the press secretary and the counter terror chief, john bren brennan, you can watch that, keep watch for it on fox news.cole and also keep it here because we re bringing in our panel to help break down what s expected here and how significant this is. steve hayes, senior writer of the weekly standard and fox news contributor, bernard whitman is former pollster for president bill clinton, good afternoon, gentlemen. steve, let me start with you. that s the thing that i that jumped out at me in the headlines headlines, okay t. seems like a good idea to have 47 nation necessary to have a summit to talk about nuclear materials, we have terrorists out there who would love to kil