newsroom and good to have you with us, i m erica hill. i m jim sciutto, and soon former vice president pence could be answering questions, because he has been subpoenaed, and what the special council is wanting to learn from him and what it could mean in terms of executive privilege. and plus another major review in tennessee after the death of tyre nichols, and the shelby county district attorney is expected to review all prior cases involving those five officers is charged for their role in nichols death, and what that could mean. and if the death toll continues to rise in turkey and syria and we are hearing of remarkable stories of survival and one girl survived after 107 hours under the rubble, and hope is understandably dimming in hopes of finding survivors as the crews continue their search there. we begin this hour with vice president pence who is under investigation in regard to former president trump, and so, in regard to this subpoena, what does the white hous
repeatedly expressed support for privatizing social security and medicare. this is when he was a tea party conservative and he had the backing of the top grass roots and even donald trump endorsed him, and basically the paul ryan plan that many of us remember was a huge political issue in this race. he very fully embraced this plan. you know, the government would basically subsidize for seniors either to go out to get a private plan or to have a traditional medicare plan, and the democrats called it a voucher, and republicans called it a premium support system, and it is basically the same thing. let s take a listen to what desantis said in one of those interviews. i would not change social security and medicare for the people on the program or near retirement at 55 and over, just because i think that there are settled expectations there, and there are proposals like paul
voters? yes. and i have taken this logic and idea with me in congress that leaders put themselves in uncomfortable situations and get themselves comfortable there. you have to go to where people may not necessarily want you, but they need the information and the message and what to do and how you are going to lead. i think it is a missed opportunity. for instance, when i watched state of the union, the humor that he brought in a little bit of the humor was a little endearing, and it was good, good for me to see. it gave me a better idea of what his thoughts are and where he is going, and gave me more information, so i think that it would be a bad idea not to do it. it shows courage. i think that it shows some tenacity and it shows that he is not afraid of his message or plan. he has a plan, and he is going to go anywhere to articulate it. i think that he really should do it. but do you think that he should do an interview with
that s something we have to own up to in this country. it s the biggest part of the debt crisis in the future. it s something we have to deal with. the point is i think these reforms are better. i like the idea of saying to a future senior, if you like the traditional medicare plan, you can keep that but if you want to choose from a list that s comprehensive that are guaranteed benefits like federal employees have, you should be able to choose that, too. if you like your plan, you can keep your plan. that s what premium support is. nice. yeah. all right, got ya. that active choice in competition is proven to you know, you re going to hear this theme, it s proven to drive down cost because it makes those insurers compete against each other for our business. we ll take a very quick break. up next, russia s hacking of the u.s. election. what will congress do about it? that and much more ahead with speaker paul ryan. we re live from the george washington university. stay with us.
bureaucratic that physicians just won t take medicaid patients so our concern is, that people on medicaid can t get a doctor and if you can t get a doctor, what good is your coverage? we think there are a lot of good medicaid reforms at the state level. indiana is one state, wisconsin we had done good reforms to make sure people of low income get good coverage but also get access to care, actually get doctors that will take that care. we want to see more of those state based solutions so that we can make sure that coverage actually works. you re right on the numbers. about 10 million people got it on medicaid. there are about another i think 11.5 million that got health care on obama care. obama care at this time was supposed to have 23 million people. so it s 11 million instead of 23 million. it s far missed the mark but the problem is more and more people just are getting a plan that they can t use because their deductible is so high or we have a medicaid problem.