Teachers. Where is this debate really going . I ask senator pat toomey, the republican leader of the last bipartisan push for gun reform. And Kentucky Republican thomas massie, supporter of loosening gun restrictions. Plus, the latest way russian twitter bots are sewing division. I talk to a senator about the Big Tech Companies that dominate our lives. Finally, muellers moves, how nervous is the president . Another guilty plea and more indictments this week. Now the House Democratic memo is out, and hes not happy. There is no collusion. Joining me for insight and analysis. David brody, host f faith nation. Helene cooper, pentagon kronlt for new york times. Daniel pletka, and jorn earnest. Welcome to sunday. It is meet the press. Good morning. President trump has a leadership moment, but seems distracted by the russian investigation, rattled by the democratic memo challenging republican allegations of misconduct i in the russia probe. Mr. Trump sent out five tweets, felt the need to cal
Health care plan authored by senator Lindsey Graham and bill cassidy. Tomorrow Senate Lawmakers plan to do with the nomination of the National Labor Relations Board and then they will adjourn for the rest of the week for a state work. The coverage of use senate here on cspan2. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The chaplain dr. Barry black will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Almighty god, by whose providence our steps are ordered. You are our source of hope, joy, and peace. Guide our lawmakers on the path of integrity so that they will honor you. Inspire them to recommit themselves to the noble principles upon which our nation was founded. Give them wisdom to trust you with all their hearts and to passionately and humbly pursue your will, knowing that you have promised to direct their paths. Today, may our senators experience the constancy of your presence. Lead them to your higher wisdom, and bring them to the end of this day with their hearts a
System of the Affordable Care act and change it into a block grant. States would get a set amount whatever they wanted care act, they could go single whatever they wanted in their Health Care System. They would take the dollars and implement a plan similar to the ffordable payer, or they can go a conservative route and undo some of the parts of the Affordable Care act particularly the consumer protexases that some folks like. The preexisting conditions, things like that. Governors would be able to undo those things and have this pot of money. Take a look at some of the details offered up by senator graham and well come back to our discussion. We keep medicaid in place as it is today. We try to give more flexibility because indiana is a good example of what can happen if you give states flexibility to help poor people. One thing about medicaid, is you get a headache you run to the emergency room. I want them to have some ownership. If you smoke thats something that ought to be considere
Effort to improve health care. Thus far, they succeeded. Thus far, they have yet to offer truly Serious Solutions of their own. Last week, our colleague from vermont rolled out Health Care Legislation that would quadruple down on the failures of obamacare. It envisions what is basically a fully governmentrun, singlepayer system. The kind of system that would strip so Many Americans of their health plans and take away decisions over their own health care. That would require almost unimaginably high tax increases. And that already collapsed interestingly enough in the senators home state of vermont when they tried to do it. This is a massive expansion. Idea, not a serious solution. The democrats are coalescing around it anyway. They apparently think this massive expansion of a failed idea is what American Health care should look like. You can be sure they will do everything in their power to oppose impose it on our country, but we do not have to accept it as our feature. Future. That is
As outraged as they are. There is a generation now feeling so left out. This is about an intellectual fight for not just this is about an intellectual fight for notjust conservatism but for capitalism and we need to make that case, not with Old Fashioned corbyn ite answers from the 70s, spend money we dont have, saddle the young with more debt, it is about innovation, new ways of tackling the problems. This party is full of ideas. I have been feeding them through and it is about making sure we gripped those ideas and signal we will tackle the problems. If we dont make brexit and a moment of inspiring Domestic National renewal, it is in danger of alienating an entire generation and will be at massive weight around this party at the next election. We have to do domestic reform as well. A lot of talk about how this party could stop regular to dominating absolutely everything. People coming forward with lots of domestic policy idea the speaker, which they hope will appeal to people. Many t