ainsley: when the president ended subsidies for insurers. many comments. pure malice, spiteful, the worst thing the administration has done on healthcare yet. what are your thoughts? this let rick s is so over the top. payments flat out illegal. not donald trump, a federal judge said these are not were never prop united stated by congress. appropriated by congress. decided on his own to make these payments unconstitutional. got to stop. he is following the law, which i would think ought to be he ought to be lauded for. the truth is the subsidies will continue through other parts of obamacare, so, this isn t really saving us much money. i think it s a signal that he is determined to change this law. pete: james, you say there is another way to make congress really feel it illegal subsidies for members of congress. they get their own subsidies through obamacare. could that change? so, when they were working on obamacare, dismeart chuck grassley said well, let s eat our own
this has a real impact on people s lives. there s no question about it. you re absolutely right, rev. and, look, first of all, it s bad politics. it s bad politics for him to do this for the reasons you say. it makes no sense. it s spiteful, mean aernnd despicable f the president was interested in doing something to reform the problems that obama care has, he can go to the democrats and the democrats are willing to sit down and talk about meaningful change. that s number one. number two, by doing this, he owns it now. a lot of them are his voters n talking about the change to open up that to companies who will offer nonessential package that s don t have the essential benefits, that s why people before obama care people who thought they had health care when they got sick, they wound
company, this bailout sill legal. well, exactly. and that s what this president is trying to solve. is he saying i can do only certain things with an executive order. this is one of them. and i m going to take action. because this is so important to our, the future of our healthcare system and the future of our economy that i have to take this action. i wouldn t want i don t want to do it but congress is forcing my hand. ainsley: of course democrats are not happy with it. good. ainsley: some are saying spiteful. some are saying sabotage. this is what nancy pelosi had to say. i don t know what he is putting out today. i do know it s a sabotage of the affordable care act and quite frankly a real disservice to the american people. ainsley: how does she know? she hasn t read it i don t know what he is putting out today. she didn t know what was in the bill until it was passed. let s remember this is not her first rodeo in jockeying with language. she is going to be against it tha
republicans who do not espouse bigoted views. where are their leaders? they count espouse bigoted views but do benefit from the party. they re afraid to defy that base or a president who s proven himself to be spiteful. and they re hopeful that this will blow over and somehow they can move on to tax reform. but why, if you re paul ryan and saying i m sort of made this bargain and he can get my agenda through, he s not. for what? they re the beneficiary of it. keeping their job? getting their agenda across? how much? when do republicans stand up and say enough a enough. at what cost? is it listen, how much of a
attention to the fringe. when the fringe is hateful and dangerous and spiteful let s not pay attention. let s pretend they are not there. cameras stay away and journalists don t tell that story because it s an ugly story and really doesn t represent who i am and who we are as an american people. if you do that greg, you run the risk of the fringe splegd a message. just like we were talking about president trump s statement earlier. well, guess what, you know, places like the daily storm are on their own media. they are praising it. that was a great thing. he didn t call us out. he didn t call us any names. they feel reinforced not by the coverage on nbc, cbs, or fox news, they feel reinforced by what the president failed to do. getting ba back to this idea of exposure being a contagion. we talked about this before whether the police don t like it whether you report on teenage suicides because things like this are a contagion. when you give this sunlight, it grows, it doesn t