of this is not a great unifying speech by a prident and a lot of good feeling but a lot of bad feeling that could impair this president as he starts. one of the things that is hard to understand and also hard to put in context about what we re seeing with the president-elect s approval numbers. obviously the big headline is there s never been a president in modern polling that s had numbers this low. never. we ve never had an incoming president who s had numbers upside down. nothing like this. but what s happened is over the course of the transition his numbers have gotten worse. yup. that s also unprecedented, isn t it? he threw this away. because what a president usually uses the transition for is to say to the people who didn t vote for him i m better than you may think, i m going to make appointments of people you may like, i m going to say things you may like. instead what donald trump said was i m going not going to pretend to do that.
welcome back. it is time for the lid. prident obama king a rare ip to capitol hill later this week to meet with house and senate democrats. the focus, the future of his signature affordable care act and how to keep republicans from repealing it. meanwhile, republican-led congress is promising to roll back more than just the health care law. that of course is at the center of the republican legislative target. when the 115th congress begins tomorrow, they re expecting to take up two bills that would give congress more control over regulations including the ability to repeal some rules put in place by president obama. our esteemed panel is back with me now, thank you very much. let s start with the discussion about the affordable care act. there s a lot of action this week. wednesday the president heading to the hill. mike pence on the same day, and in order to make sure and it s not even possible.
subsidies don t need to be in place anymore. and this there forever and heather is from indiana. illinois. illinois, i m sorry. the next letter comes from darlene trudy, scotsdale, arizona. i m mad as hell because the obama administration is launching a hundred million dollar aebt tobacco campaign yet the prident calls pot smoking a bad habit. if kids right now aren t confused, it s beyond me. but nevertheless this is a new campaign that started two days ago. $115 million going to this campaign to tell kids not to smoke. aimed at 12 to 17-year-olds. do they have the usual guy with the tracheotomy and wheezing. it s a radio, television, internet campaign. it s a bad habit, don t pick it up basically. are they showing you like skeleton people? i thought that was pretty effective. the guy comes on. i think they were effective years ago certainly. so i don t know what this one is going to do. anybody smoking now has to be a moron. but confusing with the president talkin
theater to watch them self destruct. that s what they are doing. if not so much as stake. it is deadly source. look at calendar october 1st is not that far off. the white house issued a veto threat on the bill that the house is going to vote on tomorrow. we ll watch and so if anybody blinks. the game of chicken continues. mike, thank you. this is how it will likely go down. the republican plan keeps the current spending rate with a added provision to defund obama care. when the cr reaches the senate, harry rhode island will strip that and kick it back to the house. unless both sides agree with something to put on the prident s desk government operations would come to halt. that means furlourghs and
months. it s another hammer blow to the struggling middle class families in america. what the numbers say about business with bet founder bob johnson and former hewlett-packard ceo carly fiorina. i m candy crowley, and this is state of the union. first today, mitt romney. gloria borger caught up with the nominee yesterday in indiana and he hit back on president obama s proposal to raise tax rates for people making over $250,000 a year. i think it would be an enormous mistake for us to raise taxes on anyone right now with the economy in the trouble it s in. i also hope people understand that when they talk about raising taxes on the wealthy, as the president does, he s also talking about the same tax rate that applies to small business. more of that romney interview in just a few minutes. but i wanted to bring in republican senator lindsey graham of south carolina. thank you for joining us, senator. glad to be with you. let me ask you first about the president