one from ted cruz to allowing selling stripped down insurance policies earned 43 votes. another one from rand paul essentially allowing repeal now and replace in a couple of years earned 45 votes. they need 50 votes to pass. major challenges to republicans voted against even taking up healthcare lisa mckowski of alaska and susan collins of maine. now there is a lot of talk about skinny repeal. basically stripping some of the taxes, getting rid of the government mandates. some senators are non-committal. i don t know what skinny repeal is. no indication what would be in that bill. we need a rescue plan for people in ohio who are in counties where there isn t a single insurer. 19 counties now. 27 counties with one insurer. the theory being passing something and then you d go to conference with the house. they need 50 republican yes votes bill. bill: what s the play for
it turns out 50% of those paying the penalty have a reported income of $25,000 or less. this is a tax that is on lower income americans. they want rid of those taxes. ideally we have more and continue to go back to the grant cassidy amendment. allowing states to come up with their own solutions. a good add-on to complete what president trump. bill: would you vote yes on that now? yes, we have to move the process. we can t stay at this impasse. bill: meadows said the following on screen yet again. we support the concepts in there but it is not a repeal. not even close to repeal. we see it as a vehicle to hopefully continue the negotiations. that s the point you make. make the point and again i would add it blocked money back to states. we ve used it for welfare reform and other issues. we think it s the way forward coupled with the skinny bill. bill: your big idea and you
we have good witnesses, ben shapiro, and aclu. we ll talk about campuses are supposed to be where you have the full-fledged debate and you let the best ideas win. that s historically been how it s done in this country and need to make sure it continues. bill: we ll be watching from here. thank you for your time. jim jordan. come back. thank you. shannon: today two white house insiders potentially at odds right now is newcomer anthony scaramucci suggesting chief of staff reince priebus may be behind some of the leaks? bret baier will join us at the top of the hour. bill: the i.t. consultant arrested while trying to leave the country. why this case has a lot of folks worried about our national security. we ll explain next. .to help minimize blood sugar spikes. .you can really feel it. now with 30% less carbs and sugars.
of leaks is undermining our government to protect the country. whenever a case can be made we ll seek to put people in jail and aggressively pursue leak cases wherever they may lead. maybe that leads to handcuffs. the vice president told this to tucker just last night also, watch. the washington way is to talk behind people s backs. it s not president donald trump s approach. he speaks candidly and openly and expressed his disappointment. that doesn t mean we don t recognize the good work the justice department has been doing. bill: seems to me the message is traveling quickly, doug. it is traveling quickly. shorthand, scaramucci is winning, priebus is losing. bet your money on anthony and even anthony as a potential chief of staff if and when priebus goes. bill: thank you. appreciate it. 20 minutes past the hour. shannon: fox news confirming that iran has launched a rocket towards space. a news group says the rocket
ourselves and our allies. that s what we have to do to make an impression. shannon: u.s. military policy the president announcing yesterday that transgender individuals won t be allowed to serve in the u.s. military. any reaction to that? there are a lot of questions about that. it was a complete surprise to the department of defense and so we don t know if that means they will kick people out who are there, we don t know if that means they aren t going to allow people who need no treatment to come in. there are lots of questions to be answered. i think the standard should be that we need people in the military who can fight. and if they can meet those standards, if they can fight, then the rest of this stuff probably doesn t matter. if they can t fight, however, the military cannot be a social program for some other agenda. shannon: all right. chairman max thornberry always good to see you. bill: more to come on that. 20 minutes before the hour. street free speech under fire o