Suitorman, Senior Editor at reason magazine. Kasie, let me start with you. Weve already seen far right groups like Heritage Action criticize the plan, Club For Growth as well, freedom works, rand paul calling it obamacare light. You tweeted this a few hours ago. Here it is, it is still early so caveats apply but events of today suggest Gop Health Care bill is already on life support, if not Dead On Arrival. How can that be so early, kasie . Reporter well look, craig, this bill has run into extraordinary opposition just in the first handful of hours that it has been out in the public, and youre saying you tick through some of the groups that have come out and opposed this, the Heritage Action went so far as to say this doesnt repeal obamacare. That of course kind of the cardinal sin for a party that has spent the last however many years campaigning specifically on repealing obamacare. So the people who are
to younger people and less generous to older people. There would be a cap so that
has broad authority to investigate here because deputy attorney general rod rosenstein not only authorized them to investigate russian interference and collusion, but any matters that come up in the course of their work. liz. elizabeth: thank you so much, appreciate it. leland: well, president trump is here in cleveland. he is at a campaign event for one of the republican senate candidates right now. and then he s going to talk at a small business round table. talking about tax cuts and the effects on the economy here in ohio and that s what the president and the white house want to be talking about. the white house though still doing damage control and the president still facing questions about what his new attorney, rudy guiliani, had to say about payments made to none other than stormy daniels. back at the white house is our alison barber. president trump is not here anymore. he left for cleveland a little earlier this morning. voters in ohio are set to go to the polls on tuesday
years because the question did process, we felt the previous not ask about them. administration was spending money they didn t have the authority to spend and congress for him to put this in his is working through that to make letter as a response is sure the rightful holders to spend money in this nation is insulting. the congress of the united i i he should come back states exercises that authority. and explain himself, how does the white house and you filled out the label trump mr. chairman. i think he owes that to us. care. i ll let others provide a description for it. this appears to me like he i call it patient care. this is about patient care at the end of the day, this isn t was i have been i have about politician, this is about bent over backwards not to say that he lied. he needs to come back. i have bent over backward. patients. i had the privilege of going to i have given him the benefit of cincinnati with the vice president last week to a small business round t
not that folks are getting too much care. we re wasting out because it s significant abuse in the system and it s insignificant. cost sharing measures are being addressed. it s important we run through that process. thises the process wheree felt the previous administration was spending money they didn have the authority to spend. and congress is working through that to make certain that the rightful holders of the authority to spend money in this nation, which is the congress of the united states, exercises that authority. mr. secretary how does the white house and you feel about the label, trump care? i ll let others provide a description for it. i prefer the call it patient care. this is about patients at the end of the day. this isn t about politicians. this isn t about insurance companies. this is about patients. and patients in this nation, especially those in the individual and small group market. these are the folks. i had the privilege of going to cincinnati last week
especially those in the individual and small group market. these are the folks. i had the privilege of going to cincinnati last week with the vice president to a small business round table. and one of the business owners, one of the small business owners there said he had 18 employees last year at this time. this year he has 15 employees because of the cost of health coverage for those individuals forced him, forced him to let three people go. now, they are being forced to let three people go because the federal government has put in place rules and regulations that make it virtually impossible for folks in the individual and small group market to provide coverage for their employees. this is a system that s not working for people. so if you if we focus on the patients i ll call it patient care. if you focus on the patients, we ll get to the right answer. a major complaint of concern sorry. a major complaint of conservatives with phase one of the obamacare repeal and replace is