widely reported that president trump s national security team thinks that he should certify the iranian nuclear deal because the evidence is that they re in compliance. trump won t do that and trying to come up with a third way to de-certify and don t pull out and satisfy the president but don t unravel the deal and basically too smart by half and how the guardians of the national security are trying to deal with the number one threat to our security which is the commander in chief, the man in the oval office is actually now the greatest threat that we as a country face and thank goodness people like john kelly and mattis and mcmaster are there to rein him in. there s limit to what they can do because he is the boss. neera, we have a handful of republicans who have actually come out like corker, like jeff flake, fundamentally most republicans certainly most influential republicans elected are not doing anything about this. yeah.
house simply because they keep denying there s actually chaos. 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
trump s national security team thinks that he should certify the iranian nuclear deal because the evidence is that they re in compliance. trump won t do that and trying to come up with a third way to de-certify and don t pull out and satisfy the president but don t unravel the deal and basically too smart by half and how the guardians of the national security are trying to deal with the number one threat to our security which is the commander in chief, the man in the oval office is actually now the greatest threat that we as a country face and thank goodness people like john kelly and mattis and mcmaster are there to rein him in. there s limit to what they can do because he is the boss. neera, we have a handful of republicans who have actually come out like corker, like jeff flake, fundamentally most republicans certainly most influential republicans elected are not doing anything about this. yeah. i mean, i actually i mean, i agree with max. i don t know how these republicans sl
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. these cost sharing reductions, these subsidies, are really the
matches with john kelly. laushs reported last night vanity fair spoke to several people close to the president describing him as, quote, unstable and unraveling. but when john kelly tried clearing the air today he actually conceited that trump is frustrated. it is astounding to me how much is misreported. i will give you the benefit of the doubt that you are operating off of contacts, leaks, whatever you call them. but i would just offer to you the advice i would say, you know, maybe develop some better sources. the congress has been frustrating to him. i would say his great frustration is the process that he now finds himself. clear that the negative stories are getting the president. you can see trump s frustration in his attack on nbc news after its report that the president, quote, wanted what amounted to a nearly tenfold increase in the u.s. nuclear arsenal. just this evening, the president tweeted again @nbc news, john