republicans. speak out if trump plays to the base, ignore populist protectionist policies on issue as like free trade. stand up for institutions like the senate filibuster requiring 60 votes on various issues. the president has tweeted as recently at yesterday, end that. 51 should be for everything. well, i think he makes some very good points. who s he? senator flake. yes. with regards to jettying up in-fighting to sell his book and, yes, there is a conservative and a more moderate wing of the republican party and seeing disagreements with regard how to repeal and replace obamacare based on that, but i think he also needs to not just speak about this, but his actions haven t really followed up on this. he had the opportunity to speak up on some of the president s nominees, that he disagrees with policies on however approved the confirmation of these nominees. one thing he did say i thought was really important in his op-ed that he wrote today was in
they really want to fix, improve, repair obamacare as long as republicans don t insist on formal repeal, they want to work together. see if you guys can make that happen. representatives martha mcsally, josh gottheimer, thanks to you both for joining us. thanks, wolf. coming up, jaw-dropping claims that the white house and fox news may have concoctsed a fake conspiracy about a murdered democratic national committee staffer. we have details. that s coming up. with a $500,000 life insurance y policy. how much do you think it cost him? $100 a month? $75? $50? actually, duncan got his $500,000 for under $28 a month. less than $1 a day! his secret? selectquote. in just minutes a selectquote agent will comparison shop nearly a dozen highly rated life insurance companies, and give you a choice of your five best rates. duncan s wife cassie got a $750,000 policy
repeal obamacare. we have a republican senate, republican house, republican white house. it must be done. the economy is doing well. but it s buoyed by expectations. that will not last much longer. they have to provide those tax cuts. david: we ve heard secretary mnuchin with the president over there, and we saw him in a meeting with china, say specifically, even if obamacare repeal and replace does not get done this year, tax cuts will get done this year. do you think that s possible? well, it s possible, but it s a difficult senatosenatorial ma. voters want to know there is no job killing player mandate and no more obamacare taxes. in the interim, the congress can work on a repeal bill that can
salesmanship power and as we heard mitch mcconnell, the senate leader say in that sound bite. we re all joined and unified in repealing and replacing, it doesn t look like it will happen right now. it will happen. it s absolutely essential and the president has made the right proposal which is simply to repeal now, effective in a specific date like august 1st, 2018. that will remove the road blocks to tax cuts. it is absolutely vital to get this economy jump started with tax reform. david: it starts with obamacare because there are a lot of taxes in obamacare. some people, betsy, wonder what senator mcconnell is up to. he recently said if the republican can t get together, he ll deal with democrats. that pathetic white flag statement will cast him his leadership if he continues in that direction. members. senate, members of the house, no, voters elected them to much
republican governors needed to be included in this discussion. john kasich, hutchinson, they set up a proposal that didn t get the consideration that it should have that the allies needed to take this on. and hopefully going into the next issue, that will change. do you want this dropped for now? are you now in the it s time to it s time to be a repair obamacare republican rather than a replace obamacare republican? well, that s an there are democrats who love obamacare. but they recognize that it needs to be repaired. there are republicans who detest obamacare, but they recognize that parts of this law must be maintained. we should start the conversation there. parts of the law may need to be repealed, parts replaced, parts overhauled and parts retained. and let s not throw in the unnecessary issue that makes this health care reform more