Hold on tight. Before we get the latest from our team of reporters on the ground, let me get you caught up on the latest changes we know of to the gop bill. This is important. People who make more than 200,000 a year will still have to pay a medicare tax. Its being extended for the next six years instead of eliminated. The money the government makes on that, about 15 billion, goes to the states and could be iced to pay for maternity and newborn care, Mental Health and substance abuse. Those are changes aimed at pleasing moderates in the house. Finally, obamacare requires Insurance Companies to provide Certain Health benefits. Now that requirement goes away and its up to individual states to make those rules starting in 2018. That was a change meant to help conservatives come on board. This vote, lets not waste a minute and get to where the action is. My colleague Chris Jansing has us covered from the white house, kely odonnell has a very tough job today keeping track of all this on cap
Said they will not support the nominee. There was a stern warning issued to his democratic colleagues. If the roles were reversed, i dont believe for one minute you would give one accommodation youre asking us to give garland. You had a chance to grab power, you grabbed it. So when you complain about garland, its the arsonist complaining about fire. Heres where were headed. Were headed to a world where you dont need one person from each side to pick a judge. And what does that mean . That means the judges are going to be more idealogical, not less. Weve got an allstar panel of reporters to take us through all the news of the day. Kri Kristin Welker at the white house, and also joining me, National Political reporter for the washington post, Robert Acosta and National Security reporter for the new york times, Matthew Rosenberg. Ca kacie, lets start with you. Do they have to change the rules. He has said repeatedly over and over again gorsuch will be confirmed, and if thats going to happ
Airline drag someone from a plane like a hefty bag of passenger trash . And the true story of who did or did not drink the koolaid in the largest murdersuicide in american history. First, whats with trump on the russian front . Despite sending mixed signals over the weekend, its clear today that the administration is now unified in their message on syria, and theyre taking a confrontational approach to both Bashar Al Assad and his chief ally over in russia, Vladimir Putin. And that new tone was most evident in the rhetoric that press Secretary Sean Spicer used today to make the point that theres no justification for the use of chemical weapons and that russia has no business supporting the assad regime. In so doing, spicer equated chemical weapons with Nuclear Weapons and invoked the name of adolf hitler. Lets watch. We cant condemn every act, but i think to literally see someone use gas, and it was pointed out, you know, you think about that. It is in the same category as Nuclear Weap
Bedminster a short time ago. Mr. President , the north koreans said it was [ indiscernible ]. Do you have any response to that . Well, i dont think they mean that. I think they its the first time they heard it like they heard it and frankly the people that were questioning that statement wasnt too tough. Maybe it wasnt tough enough. They have been doing this to our country for a long time, for many years. And its about time that somebody stuck up for the people of this country and for the people of other countries. So if anything, maybe that statement wasnt tough enough and were backed by 100 by our military, were backed by everybody. And were backed by many other leaders and i notice that many senators and others today came out very much in favor of what i said. But if anything, that statement may not be tough enough. [ indiscernible ]. Youll see. Youll see. Mr. President , one of the options being considered a preemptive strike . We dont talk about that. Never do. Im not like the oth
People he needs at home and around the world. It started with the president extending his public fight with secretary of state Rex Tillerson into day 6. In an interview with forbes magazine, the president talked about the nbc news reports that tillerson called him a moron. He said, quote, i think its fake news, but if he did that, i guess well have to compare iq tests and i can tell you who is going to win. A few hours after forbes posted the interview, the president was asked about it at the white house while sitting next to former secretary of state henry kissinger. Did you undercut the secretary of state today with the iq statement . No, i didnt undercut anybody. I dont undercut people. Within an hour of that exchange, tillerson arrived at the white house to have lunch with the president. We have seen no bylines reporting in any publications as of yet about how that conversation went. Then a few hours later still, press secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders took questions about the seemi