there s firefighters down in the streets saying go ahead and jump, we ll save you but they don t have any safety nets, my fear is if we repeal the system that i described we put in price, the affordable care act, largely founded on republican ideas which i think were good ideas and we don t have something at least as good in place to catch those people as they fall from the building, we ll have done a disservice to them and to our country. thank you. thanks, senator. your time is up. senator burr. thank u, mr. chairman. a quick reminder that the affordable care act was not passed with one republican vote in the house or senate. we are breaking in to the senate hearing, right now listening into the nominee for health and human services secretary of state, tom price. a rehash of stuff that he has said in the past and what the senate wants as a clear
people have talked about what wrur relationship with russia might be. russia is automobiles prepared to shaft the middle east, the united states in the middle east. it s been doing it under obama for aths yeaeight years. it s extremely distressing that even great britain didn t abstain on this resolution. and it shows just how much difficulty there is in the quite nationed to try to carry out a coherent american foreign policy. you bring up russia. talk to us a little bit about the back and forth today. vladimir putin gave trump a pat on the back and sent him a letter and trump tweeted thank u you. is it that bad to have a relationship with russia? it s a question of what our national interests are compared to russians. i think the exchange of comments today that s gotten the most attention has been on the nuclear front and i think trump was exactly right to say that he s not going to let the u.s.
for a trump administration, going forward. that being said, this is donald trump and you can never really predict what he s going to do, until he predicts it. but they ve had great success with these rallies, in turning out crowds and getting attention and allowing donald trump to, you know, state in the spotlight and stay on cable news and get his message out there. so this is somhing that will likely happen ithe future. i think the roar of the crowd does wonders for people. thank u so much, katy tur. makes sense to me. i imagine he will do it to win his battles in congress. i m joined right now by cnbc s john harwood, who s outside trump tower. john, you ve really got a focus, and it s everybody from outside, you re closer in, obviously, reporting it. what is going on with this secretary of state? it s almost a circus. there s so many names, every day i learn new names, how to pronounce new names. it started off with rudy giuliani and it s gotten longer is it still a rudy giulian
i m joined now by glenda blair, author, she wrote the trumps. glenda, thank. and quickly on the top of the interview, i want to tell you, what do you think of trump? he s made being he s made branding a success strategy. he s made dominating the news a success strategy. he s made exaggeration a success strategy, throughout his career. and now he s got the biggest brass ring ever. does he use hiyperbole to hi own disgrace, at some point. he talks about building a wall. i don t think anybody sane thinks there s going to be a wall that somebody can t easily climb over, even if he builds one down in mexico along the rio grande. but can he get away saying two years from now, well, what i meant is we ll be stricter on illegal immigration or on illegal hiring or, you know what i meant. can he re-adjust truth? well, as you were just
the reality is also this. there has been some trading between the two countries. flights have resyouchld to some extent between these two coun y countries. that s where it gets a little tho thornier. president obama lifted regulations on imports. unwinding all of that gets a little more complicated. donald trump has moderated himself on some key campaign promises like obamacare, for example, torture, for example. will this be another one? that s a question we have yet to answer and are going to. thank you very much. appreciate it. joining me now is former miami-dade mayor suarez. thank u very much for being here. i m glad to get to talk to you this morning. you were the first cuban american mayor of miami. you came into office at a time miami-dade was undergoing a great transformation used to be