julia hawn now works in the white house with steve bannon who used to run the website. so, clearly, somebody taped this call and they are releasing it right now to put incredible amount of pressure on paul ryan to cave into conservative demands. the timing is fascinating and bardella thinks breitbart would do it without bannon s support from inside the white house. no way to prove that one way or another. i just talked to mo brooks, congressman from alabama a few minutes ago who had been opposed to the republican plan to repeal and replace the bill. he calls it the biggest republican welfare plan in history. i was wondering if his opposition would be less since the cbo said the plan would reduce the deficit and lower premiums in ten years. mo brooks still was spitting fire over the republican plan. paul ryan has a real problem if he s not winning over any conservative votes like this and stands to lose some votes among moderates. he s got issues. so think of paul ryan being
well really all i care about is that i can snap the sanctions again if you cheat. which, of course is never going to happen. he is essentially, as you say, giving away or prepares to preparing a way to give away which appear to be a nonnegotiable demand on our part. gradual relaxation of sanctions. this is an awful moment. kirsten? well, yeah, i think when if you remember the way this was characterized is you have the ayatollah selling this to his audience and says it s sort of this isn t actually what s going to happen. so for the president to cave on this on something that it seems at this point now he just wants any deal. just to be able to say that he had a deal and being willing to give up something that i think, you know, and i have been supported of the deal and this is very detrimental there is no point of doing a deal unless you are absolutely sure that you have been able to get inspectors in and verify it before the sanctions are lifted. this has been exercise in
machine that is the national football league. they understand how even breast cancer was brought to the front lines of what we re talking about in donations and money through the nfl. they figure instead of doing a national sweep which they re doing with health care, we re going to go team to team and see how many we can break. the baltimore ravens were the first to cave. i thought they had a good defense. they have a democratic governor who wants to run for president. that s tough. in the great state of maryland. meanwhile congressman alan grayson, he is the guy who famously during the health care debate said this on the floor of the u.s. congress. if you get sick, america, the republican health care plan is this: die quickly. the next election cycle he was voted out. but then they changed his district and he got reelected last year. interestingly enough now, he is trying to raise money for his campaign and for democrats with, take a look
bureau. doug? we re going to find out on december 13 when this budget conference committee reports back on what progress they ve made in addressing spending debt and deficit issues. one ace in the hole the g.o.p. wields in the talks is the sequester. the sequester, as you know, was originally crafted by the obama administration as part of a debt ceiling talks of 2011. it was designed to be so painful in the sledge hammer approach to cuts that it would force the g.o.p. to cave. the unthinkable happened. sequester became the law of the land. cuts are not smart. they are not fair. they will hurt our economy. they will add hundreds of thousands of americans to the unemployment roles. many say those fears of doom and gloom did not come to pass. according to studies, if you polled the american people, less than one in four felt any impact at all from the sgequester.
here with his thoughts varney and company s own stuart varney. stuart? yes. the president is directly blaming the republicans. he s spinning the word default. we do not default at midnight wednesday if we don t have a debt ceiling deal. we simply don t. we ve got a long time before we actually default. and the president is playing the fear factor here. he s saying watch out. the stock market s going to plunge if those wicked republicans don t fall in line and get an agreement. all this is not working for the president. number one, the stock market is not falling. the dow jones industrial average is around 15,300, 300 points away from an all-time record high. that is not a plunge. and the president hasn t created a plunge with this fear he s putting in the markets. would you also sayñi the reason it didn t plunge friday is because they were optimistic on a deal? and the reason it didn t plunge monday is the word is they re getting close on a deal? we have not seen in press