why should the american public believe that things are actually on track when what we see what s going on with health care reform and it seems like the time line keeps getting pushed. why shouldn t the american public believe it? of course they should believe it. we ve said that. speaker ryan has said that. chairman hatch has said it. we are all 100% committed to getting tax reform done this year. mr. secretary, in february, you received a letter from lawmakers suggesting the treasury department should consider sanctioning the bank of china. my question to you is, have you reconsidered that idea? do you think that idea is on the table? and then the second question i had is about the debt ceiling. my understanding is that the debt ceiling drop dead time for you all is october. does that give congress additional time, in your mind, or would you still like them to act earlier? i haven t given any specifics in regards to the drop dead date. what i have said is that i hope that congre
effective and informative and republicans on this question are split down the middle. half of republicans say that they re reckless and distracting. so, how can you argue that this is something the president must do? i answered this question yesterday in regards to the poll. i think any time the president has a chance to speak directly to the american people, it s a good thing. sarah, how do you feel about the president attacking another woman, specifically for her looks, and what does that show as an example to how men should be treating other women? look, everybody wants to make this a an attack on a woman. what about the constant attacks that he receives or the rest of us? i m a woman, and i ve been attacked by this show multiple times but i don t cry foul because of it. i think that, you know, you want to create this false narrative, one hand it s like let s treat everybody equally, and on the other hand, they attack, attack, attack, and he responds and apparently that s wr
i think we ve been talking about policy a lot here. i want to talk about his meeting with president putin that is coming up next week that has just been confirmed and a definitive answer from you on whether the president will bring up election interference. it is clearly the biggest topic between the u.s. and russia right now, the fact that moscow meddled in the election. is the president going to press putin on that? obviously i m not going to get ahead of the president s conversation as we typically do. i would imagine we ll have a readout after that conversation takes place. john. okay. thanks a lot, sarah. the president s tweet today, does it help his legislative agenda? does it help him win the votes of those nine senators who have come out against that senate bill, senator collins, senator murkowski, for instance? what s your view on that? again, i think we re just looking for new ways to rephrase this question. the president was attacked, he responded. there s nothing more
there s no candidates for ambassador to germany or france, both major allies. or greece for that matter, an important country. is the president having trouble recruiting people to fill some of the key slots that remain unfilled after six months? no, john, actually, the trouble isn t in the recruitment. it s in the vetting and getting them through the process. as i mentioned yesterday, there are over, i believe, 100 candidates in the queue waiting to be pushed through, but due to the historic obstruction, it s taking much longer than normal to get a lot of those nominees through, and frankly a lot of the people that are part of that process, one of the number one reasons we ve had people take a step back is because that process is so lengthy. and hold on. i ve got a skype question from chris burg in north dakota and we ll go to that. hey, sarah. thank you so much. i don t want to talk about any
i want to go back to the shooting and remember what president trump said then. he said, our country will perhaps become closer, more unified, so important. does his tweet this morning, his series of tweets, help to unify the country? again, kristen, i think i ve asked this question has been asked and i ve answered it several times. do his tweets help to unify the country, to do what he said he wanted to do in the wake of that shooting. i think the president is pushing back against people who attack him day after day after day. where is the outrage on that? you guys are constantly coming and asking, like, is this okay, he does it one time, this is day after day after day and it s not just the president. the only person that i see a war on is this president and everybody that works for him. sarah, two questions to follow up on that. one is that i understand your point but he is the president of the united states. they are cable news anchors so he has to stand to a higher