mr. speaker, are you comfortable with the firing of while touring a plant in ohio today, house speaker paul ryan did not answer shouted questions about comey s dismissal, which is a thing that happens all the time across this country, notin did not answer shouted questions. healthy secretary tom price walked down a hallway and something chilling occurred. a journalist was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of state government processes. he had followed state secretary price and his entourage down the hallway and repeatedly asked if domestic violence would be considered a precondition under the new healthcare bill. he was released on $5,000 bail. today, secretary price commended the police for doing what he
while touring a plant in ohio today, house speaker paul ryan did not answer shouted questions about comey s dismissal, which is a thing that happens all the time across this country, notin did not answer shouted questions. healthy secretary tom price walked down a hallway and something chilling occurred. a journalist was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of state government processes. he had followed state secretary price and his entourage down the hallway and repeatedly asked if domestic violence would be considered a precondition under the new healthcare bill. he was released on $5,000 bail. today, secretary price commended the police for doing what he thought was appropriate. that gentleman was not in the press coverage. experts say the decline of democracy happens bit by bit and
welcome back to hardball. three individuals overseeing investigations of president trump have all been fired now. former acting attorney general sally yates, who was collecting information on members of trump s team who had connections to russia was dismissed on january 30th. there she is. former u.s. attorney preet bharara was investigating health and human services secretary tom price and also corrupt russian business officials. he was fired on march 11th. and former fbi director james comey was also investigating trump s ties to russia. he was fired yesterday. carrie ca darrow is a former department of justice national security lawyer, and u.s. congressman sean patrick maloney is a democrat from new york. congressman, i want to start with you. where are we going with this? you re up on the hill today. you hear everybody talking. is this a bipartisan concern for
fresh approach that solves the legitimate flaws that do exist with the aca. i would like to see us put together a bipartisan group to solve this problem. we ll see about that. health and human services secretary tom price defending the house bill. he rejected the congressional budget office estimate of huge cuts to medicaid claiming spending will actually increase and he says states will have more flexibility to care for medicaid patients in a, quote, better way. house members after voting for repeal are now back home in their districts, some already facing angry town halls like raul labrador with this surprising comment. usual mandating people on medicaid accept dying. you are making a mandate no one wants anybody to die. but that line is so indefensible. nobody dies because they don t have access to health care.
congress, regardless of party, are willing to look at the facts and speak the truth, even when it contradicts party positions. all right, this morning, it s hard to find much excitement in the senate about the health care bill sent over by the house last week. one key republican vote, maine moderate susan collins, says the senate will start over. the house bill is not going to come before us. the senate is starting from scratch. we re going to draft our own bill. i think we will do so and that we will come up with a whole new, fresh approach that solves the legitimate flaws that do exist with the aca. i would like to see us put together a bipartisan group to solve this problem. health and human services secretary tom price defending the house bill on cnn s state of the union. price rejected the cbo estimate