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it ll be a lot easier. i said from the beginning, let obamacare implode and then do it. i turned out to be right. and we have breaking news on this. politico is now reporting, quote, president trump plans to cut off critical subsidy payments to insurers selling obamacare coverage. this is according to two people familiar with the matter. the decision to end the payments mark s trump s most aggressive move yet to dismantle obamacare after months of failed gop repeal efforts on capitol hill. republican congresswoman of florida has just tweeted this. cutting health care subsidies will mean more uninsured in my district. potus promised more access, affordable coverage. this does the opposite. it absolutely does. that is serious matter. joining us is julia robner, chief washington correspondent and back with us is neera tanden. julie, let me start with you.
you know, what jeopardy we re in with the president who cannot be trusted with a nuclear arsenal, not trusted to discharge the duties of his office but they re not willing to do anything about it. yet, max, to your area of specialty in foreign policy, the two most serious issues on the table right now, both involve nuclear. north korea and now we are expecting tomorrow a de-certification or announcement toward the de-certification of the iran deal. we have actually enflamed two areas that are the most serious from a national security perspective. and president trump s aides and handlers understand that what he s doing makes no sense. i mean, you heard that in the way that john kelly talked today about we have to give diplomacy a chance with north korea. he doesn t call the dictator of north korea little rocket man and issue empty threats to raise the risk of a nuclear war and widely reported that president
yeah. i think that, you know, president trump has no credibility by this point given the frequency with which he lies. and the people who are defending him are having their own credibility be shredded simply by association with him. i mean, this is a very dangerous and depressing situation where, i mean, he is finally called out by his own secretary of state who called him a moron, by a leading republican senator who has said that he is running an adult day care and he s possibly leading us to world war iii and i really have not seen a lot of pushback from anybody on the republican side or even among the white house staff because people basically know this is true! this is the obvious truths that people on the republican party are generally too afraid to acknowledge. and, you know, most of the republicans in washington are not saying what tillerson or corker are saying but they know it s true. and what really makes this situation dangerous is that everybody is basically realizes,
it s true. and what really makes this situation dangerous is that everybody is basically realizes, you know, what jeopardy we re in with the president who cannot be trusted with a nuclear arsenal, not trusted to discharge the duties of his office but they re not willing to do anything about it. yet, max, to your area of specialty in foreign policy, the two most serious issues on the table right now, both involve nuclear. north korea and now we are expecting tomorrow a de-certification or announcement toward the de-certification of the iran deal. we have actually enflamed two areas that are the most serious from a national security perspective. and president trump s aides and handlers understand that what he s doing makes no sense. i mean, you heard that in the way that john kelly talked today about we have to give diplomacy a chance with north korea. he doesn t call the dictator of north korea little rocket man and issue empty threats to raise the risk of a nuclear war and