american-run businesses bringing an expression of opinion to their country? certainly, generally speaking, we would not support a government shutting down american businesses. and i don t know why this would be different but i d have to look into the details on that specific action and request that they have made. the other thing on russia, senator rubio has introduced legislation to name the street in front of the russian embassy here after the slain russian dissident boris nemtsov. senator corker blocked it. does the administration have an opinion? not that i m aware of. i wanted to ask you about the export/import. now that the senate committee is saying it shouldn t go forward, does the white house think it needs to name someone else we are going to work with the committee on a path forward. that hasn t yet been determined.
hasn t yet been determined. we are certainly very disappointed in the senate banking committee missed an opportunity to get the export import banking fully functioning again. we are going to work with them to determine the next steps. on his name or someone else? more generally speaking, just a path forward. we ll let you know if it s going to be with that individual or a different plan. just a couple of quick follow ups. first mat hthew was asking abou amtrak. there was a budget request from the president on reduction on amtrak routes. because of the accident, in washington, do you plan on revisiting that issue? on matthew peterson, it s my understanding they had close ties to the white house, are you trying to change the vetting process? and finally on the ufo. let me start with the first one because i won t remember all those questions. we ll see if we can get to all
the u.n. security council resolution is a matter of record now in the u.n., in terms of how other countries may act on this with the number of executive orders relating to environmental issues. you have barack obama trying to cement his legacy on russian hacking. he embarks on retaliatory measures. those are facts on if ground. is it fair to say that president obama is trying to tie donald trump s hands to some degree before he takes office? i don t know if he s tying his hands. but look, when you re president, you reserve all of the powers and responsibilities of that office until noon on january 20th. and there s no reason that obama, you know, shouldn t go forward with the agenda he was elected to take care of. every president has done this. remember bill clinton in if final days pushed through lots of things. george w. bush did the same thing. i think the interesting thing on the hacking is the president-elect should be being briefed on the most sensitive
it s something that has to be addressed. i can tell you if there was a popular position at my town halls, it s that obama care shouldn t go forward. i want you to stand by. around the table with me, mo elleithee, cheri jacobus, a republican strategist, donna brazile and grover norquist, president of americans for tax reform. let s start with health care because i feel like saying what s going to happen and my feeling is nobody knows what s going to happen and we won t know until those exchanges open up in october and we see who signs up. what we do know is that the president has looked at what he thinks is going to happen and decided that some of his friends shouldn t have to be in it. capitol hill. the larger businesses well, capitol hill, government workers, but also the larger businesses that won t have the mandate apply to them. it was a year delay, right? the delay on businesses, right? oh, yeah, yeah. but that s not in the law.
more environmentally sensitive, and so in my view he should have said yes to allow this to move forward. reporter: many think the president delayed the decision to keep from having to anger part of his political base. either environmentalists who oppose the pipeline or unions which favor it. the governor says he ll send the new route to the president no later than september, putting it right back in the president s lap just before the fall election. jon. jon: we are going to be hearing a lot about this pipeline for the year to come, aren t we, jim. reporter: you better believe it. republicans are pushing it because of the jobs, the unions do to. democrats are uncomfortable with it and have offered six or seven different reasons why it sh u shouldn t go forward, part of them because they don t think we should be developing more oil and gas missions, especially what they call tar sands from canada. jon: thanks for keeping an eye on it for us. jenna: a kennedy cousin convicted of murd