coverage, including people with preexisting conditions. so i want to bring in congressman ted deutsche, democrat from florida and member of the house foreign affairs and ethics committees and ashley parker from the washington post and jonathan lemire from the associated press. congressman thank you for joining us on a recess week. where do you see this potential compromise going, this would reinstate some of the essential health benefits, prohibit denial of coverage from preexisting conditions, coverage for kids up to 26 and limited waivers for states. it s some of what we ve heard before. your takeaway here? first of all give the american people more credit than what we ve read about this supposed compromise. the last part you just touched on is the key part. they seem to want to be able to say that it still bans discrimination for preexisting conditions and has essential health benefits and at the end except if you live in a state that decides that they don t want any of that.
all right. ashley and jonathan, andy teed you up there. what do you guys think? i think we know that, certainly, the president is very mindful of the 100-day benchmark. he tweeted the other day about, i think it was a fox news story, but 90 days and how he was doing well. he scheduled a press conference on day 98. could be talking about veterans affairs or perhaps he could give his own report card for his first 100 days. it is hard to suggest he s been a rousing success at this point. there are a number of campaign promises he s yet to fulfill. health care is a debacle. on the positive side, the successful nomination and insulation of a new supreme court justice is something that is going to not just help define his term but outlast his presidency. very true. yeah, i think it is risky to give the president any letter grade. as john said, it is certainly something he is deeply aware of. not just the letter grade but actually hitting achievement marks. he has, to aides privately,
volleyball games happening at the nuclear test site. so what does this mean? analysts say it could mean that the crews are now on standby, waiting for a signal from pyongyang. it could be another kind of deception from north korea to the wider world but what we do know is it keeps the rest of the world guessing and north korea knows everybody s watching. everybody s listening. hallie? kelly cobiella in seoul, thank you very much for that. let me bring in our panel, white house reporter for the washington post, david nakam a nakamura, on set ashley parker from the post and white house reporter for the associated press, jonathan lemire. lot of days we start talking about domestic policy. this is not one of those days. there s a lot happening around the world. david nakamura you said there doesn t seem to be from the trump administration cohesive understanding among foreign advisers. how big is the divide? what we ve seen over the last few weeks the administration tried to present
attacks on judge curiel. so we don t know if he s going after them. this is something that makes his team very nervous and hurt him in the past. immigration in gen rahle is a mixed bag for the president. on the one hand it is what rallied his base, but these dreamers who have this protective status, it s a tougher call. even within the white house, there s a debate what his policy should be. they re a protected group right now and doing anything to them in many cases poster children for valedictorians will bring out the progressive base as well. and ashley makes a good point. this is a president known for settling scores. this judge has been in his crosshairs for a while and some of his fiercest rhetoric during the campaign, some of the stuff he got the fiercest blowback for was from this judge. daca is trickier. he has sent mixed signals. in january he said i have a big heart. they have nothing to fear and yet we see members of his team, members certainly his base that
overseas with allies and with enemies? you know it s been an interesting difference between the campaign. during the campaign the america first seemed to be close the borders, immigration, to some degree trade and maybe not be so sort of going around the world and using american might and authority to intervene in foreign conflicts that don t have a direct interest in the united states. that seemed to be the idea of america first. instead president trump being aggressive in the middle east in syria, with the missile strikes, after the chemical weapons atack, to north korea, having a stronger message there. so it s sort of a foreign policy that seems to be changing, which is okay. everybody says look, in the first few months presidents are confronted with reality, they can make some changes. no one is concerned about that. the question is have they put in place a system that allows them to draw on the resources of state, pentagon intelligence agencies, and the national security counci