That is not accurate. Charlie the administrations credibility has been called into question from the several misleading accounts. Joining me now from washington is bob costa from the washington post. I am pleased him back on the program. Bob, one broad question, what damage do you think this is doing to donald trump, if any . Bob it is doing damage to him on several fronts. Within the white house, it has caused some tumult. The staff, in some respects, felt unprepared for this. The president made a personal decision with the attorney general and white house counsel. More broadly, the party on capitol hill im just walked over from the capital, and they feel like they were given a curveball this week by this decision. They were not ready to talk to the president s decision or defend him in an articulate way. It gives disruption to his entire agenda as he tries to pursue health care and taxes. Now, all anyone is talking about in washington is russia and former director comey. Charlie why
That is not accurate. Charlie the administrations credibility has been called into question from the several misleading accounts. Joining me now from washington is bob costa from the washington post. I am pleased him back on the program. Bob, one broad question, what damage do you think this is doing to donald trump, if any . Bob it is doing damage to him on several fronts. Within the white house, it has caused some tumult. The staff, in some respects, felt unprepared for this. The president made a personal decision with the attorney general and white house counsel. More broadly, the party on capitol hill im just walked over from the capital, and they feel like they were given a curveball this week by this decision. They were not ready to talk to the president s decision or defend him in an articulate way. It gives disruption to his entire agenda as he tries to pursue health care and taxes. Now, all anyone is talking about in washington is russia and former director comey. Charlie why
Good afternoon. Thank you so much for being here. Congressman jordan and i just left a meeting with the vicepresident and he has assured us that as we look to make this better on behalf of the American People, that the bill that was introduced last night is still open for negotiation and certainly for modification and we took that as very encouraging news, not because of any particular position that we have but because its good news for the American People. I had the opportunity to campaign with President Trump all across north carolina, and one of the things that he talked about was repeal and replacement. Now, when we said that, it took on two different meanings. A repeal to many meant that we would repeal the entire obamacare plan, all the taxes, all the mandates, the Medicaid Expansion. When he talked about replacement, it took on another meaning to others which it meant that we needed to cover the preexisting conditions, making sure that people didnt get kicked off of their health
So again, we appreciate the indulgence of the director as well as other members here. At this point we are going to recognize the gentleman from washington for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman, very much. Mr. Cordray, thanks so much for being here. The testimony from earlier in the day reminded me of a conclusion i had come to quite some time ago about what the best thing that could conceivably happen to congress would be. And it would be this. Fewer adjectives, more announce. Fewer decibels, more listening. So im going to endeavor to listen. I want to first provide you an opportunity maybe to follow up on mr. Lynchs line of questioning. Members of this committee represent in the aggregate an incredible number of Service Members. The following bases, white sands, ft. Hood, Patrick Air Force base, and my very favorite, joint base lewis mccord, which i have the privilege to represent. You seemed pretty rushed at the end of that discussion about what it is that the Affairs Office is
So again, we appreciate the indulgence of the director as well as other members here. At this point we are going to recognize the gentleman from washington for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman, very much. Mr. Cordray, thanks so much for being here. The testimony from earlier in the day reminded me of a conclusion i had come to quite some time ago about what the best thing that could conceivably happen to congress would be. And it would be this. Fewer adjectives, more announce. Fewer decibels, more listening. So im going to endeavor to listen. I want to first provide you an opportunity maybe to follow up on mr. Lynchs line of questioning. Members of this committee represent in the aggregate an incredible number of Service Members. The following bases, white sands, ft. Hood, Patrick Air Force base, and my very favorite, joint base lewis mccord, which i have the privilege to represent. You seemed pretty rushed at the end of that discussion about what it is that the Affairs Office is