the presidency into a dictatorship, after his friend and ally sean hannity gave him repeated chances to deny it. we will play it all in a moment. judge for yourself. president biden telling donors off camera, he is not sure he would be running for re-election if donald trump weren t. but retracts that when reporters ask him about it later. would you be running for president if trump wasn t running? i expect so. look, he is running. i have to run. the former president responding in iowa. president biden says he is running because you are running. do you have any comment? i doubt it. i doubt that. they don t want me to run. everybody wants to run against biden. president biden speaking this hour as the deep partisan divide over gop demands to restrict the right to asylum at the border tanks aid to ukraine and israel in the national security supplemental budget, after senate republicans storm out of a classified briefing with secretaries of state, defense and the d
them that no, we re not going to erase rich kids college debt. we re not going to do that even though some of my opponents have put that forward as their propos proposal. and joining me now is senator amy klobuchar. good to see you. good to see you. coming in a rare brief respite in washington. here we are. let me ask a follow-up to what you said just there. what does that mean? do you feel as if there have just been way too many promises made and there is going to be that there s going to be a negative fallout from this eventually for democrats? i don t think there will be a negative fallout eventually because i think we will unify behind a cad dt, and make clear the differences we have with a president who has now told over 10,000 lies, and most importantly, hasn t had the back of the people. some of the people who voted for him, the drug prices are still going up. college costs are still out of hand. all kinds of problems. for me, what i meant by that is that we need
it did not lower premiums. it wasn t supported by the republican party. every conservative organization opposed it. there was a big difference with the ten commandments and a piece of legislation. let s fix the legislation. let s do what the president said. let accomplish what we were sent here to accomplish. that continues to be our focus. we are hard at work. you feel confident that moderate republicans and some democrats will like your prop e propos proposal? i think we had a good c conference yesterday with the members talking about ways to move forward and accomplish what we kpacampaigned on. i m an american. you have to be an optimist. we can accomplish what the voters sent us here to do. congress member, i want to
more individuals and give them the choices they want for the coverage they want for themselves and family. not the government forces them to buy. reporter: it is important to point out the republican proposal does what republicans campaigned on. repeals the original mandate and medicaid expansion. two drivers for obamacare numbers. it reduces the deficit by $337 billion. and as we already know, it repeals most of the obamacare taxes. these are things republicans say we campaigned on this. just because the models of the cbo or this score doesn t reflect what people want it to reflect, there is what people voted for. the question is how do they keep members in line going forward? i spoke to a number of republican senators after the propos proposal. many voicing concerns about this going forward. christine and dave. phil, thank you. on the tax cut, people voted for a middle class tax cut. not the wealthy americans to get
unconstitutional, probably illegal and does not reflect the values that we rel many came out and agreed with her and saed that what trump was saying does not represent their party. speak are paul ryan came out. that is how i think atrocious these comments were to many even within the gop and clearly it demonstrates how concerned the party is with these kinds of comments, which their front-runner is making that will ten to paint the gop as a country as a party that is out of touch with majorities of americans who doesn t like this propos proposal, but that s a problem with the gop. the problem they re going to focus on or they re going to confront in the debate is that while majorities of merps donam don t agree with that proposal,