[inaudible] we re at the beginning of this. i wanted to inform you that mr. manafort volunteered to come in freely. ed: the is president is speaking talking health care. i appreciate it. thank you. ed: so at the end it was hard to hear should paul ryan stay on as speaker if the health care fails and the president hard to make out but said yes. shannon: they re working in
president has reaffirmed over and over again and the importance of bringing health care premiums down whether you re on the left or right agrees to. that should have been the focus. what paul ryan has proposed is basically a big tax cut for the rich and cutting health care insurance for the poor. that doesn t signed like a bipartisan deal for me. ed: i ve given you a chance to prescribe what is wrong with speaker ryan s plan but let s look at obamacare and what s in place. you heard this over and over from the president and others premium hikes for arizona 116% and oklahoma 69% and pennsylvania 53%. how in the world can you argue that if we leave the current law in place chis is a good deal for the american people? i notice you never said anything about indiana where the premiums are going down or massachusetts where the premiums are going down. you only picked the ones good for you. ed: it s 116% of an increase. you know that s not a good deal.
tandem as a team sort of as a team hand and glove. we ll see because paul ryan has the heavy lifting on the hill whipping together the bill and getting the vote and they seemed determine to move ahead but again still has his vote of confidence. ed: we had marsha blackburn and others saying as a key conservative she s moving to a left. some of her conservative colleagues moving to a yes and mike emanuel reporting other conservatives still not sold and here s the president a moment ago saying we ll see what happens. that s not super confident. he s trying to figure out where we are on all this and about the keystone pipeline. shannon: we ll play the president on keystone but very important there was that live remark we heard from the house intelligence committee chairman devin nunes full of interesting nuggets recalling the fbi
read a letter from the president and secretary price of health and human services, making commitments of how they could lower premiums in the future, telling them there s no plan b on health care, the vote was coming tomorrow and the president was demanding and requesting their support. now robert, that s a controversial strategy. usually as you know, you don t put anything out, you don t expose a piece of legislation until you re pretty sure of the nose count and i don t know anyone tonight who is really sure of the nose count. you re exactly right, brian. people from speaker ryan s office are confident butter that shaky. they called a bluff believing if they brought the bill to the floor, people would eventual l rally behind it but the house freedom caucus, even at this late hour, many of them are
you want to keep your doctor for, you can keep your doctor and want to keep your plan, keep your plan but as an architect of obamacare you gave the americans the goodies on the end so they can talk about 26 and 25 year olds to stay on your parent parents plan and now the plan is in trouble. you re misrepresenting reality. the congressional budget office looked at the fiscal stant stability of the affordable care act and will reduce the deficit $350 billion more than speaker ryan s plan if you re looking to see if it s fiscally stable or responsible it does a better job than speaker ryan s plan. ed: you gave the american people all the goodies up front