small businesses and it medicaid is due for reform. that s not a choice. we ll reform medicaid, now or later? i think if people understood what was inside there and the realistic choices they face they would think about it differently. bill: the poll what should happen to obamacare? repeal all 19%. repeal parts 45%. no repeal, 34%. take the parts apart then. john kasich was on 45 minutes ago. he is making the case that you have to make it attractive to moderate democrats in the house because ultimately you have to get this thh congress. what would you do, what would be your idea? i m not sure i agree with him that you ll get moderate democrats. i m not sure we ll get democrats at all. whether that s good or bad we can debate it but i don t think it s realistic to have them participate. you need the moderate republicans. you can redesign the tax credits that gives better support for some of the older
something like a u.s. attorney or assistant attorney general. the trump administration promised it would be law and order. sounds like that s what it is. all of this coming in the context of the furor over the firing of james comey and the role that the attorney general played in that and clearly the administration wants to show it can walk and chew gum at the at the same time time and deal with that at the same time but this attorney general s authority being questioned because he had said he would recuse himself from any involvement in the russia investigation and then he participated in the decision to fire james comey. as far as this specific policy is concerned, peter mentioned the fact this is controversial. the whole issue of criminal justice reform and new thoughts about long prison sentences for people. it is not just a liberal call. there are some conservatives who feel this way, too. the koch brothers have been pushing hard for criminal
the president had very deep doubts about comey. the fact is, as you know, there is an entire youtube video of democrats all calling for comey to be fired. there was a bipartisan consensus over the last six or eight months for a variety of reasons comey should not be the director of the f.b.i. the president, however, waited to get what was in effect a triggering device. the note from the new deputy attorney general was the triggering device. but it wasn t the decision. i think that s what the president has been trying to make clear for the last 24 hours. comey was not fired by the deputy attorney general. comey was fired by the president of the united states as he is legally allowed to and as bill clinton did in 1993. so i think what trump was saying is look, i ve had a long period of distrusting this guy. i did not think he was doing a very good job. i thought he had mishandled both the clinton investigation and the russian investigation. but the moment that they finally fired him did
guidelines. it was a law and order statement they put out this morning. bill: this will be different from what the obama era had pursued. you know the past president, the former president had problems with sentencing guidelines and a lot of that was adjusted under attorney general eric holder. this appears to be a snap back away from that as we wait for the attorney general jeff sessions. our understanding here in a page and a half memo reads like this. prosecutors should charge and pursue the most serious readily provable offenses that carry the most substantial guideline sentence including mandatory minimum sentences according to jeff sessions. shannon: apparently as we talked earlier about if prosecutors decide they won t go after the most serious charge these guidelines from the attorney general say they have to get a decision okayed by a supervisor. they have to go to the u.s. attorney or assistant attorney general to say here is why i m not deciding to go full force
i the target of this probe is a very appropriate question to ask and one that i think anybody who is being interviewed by the f.b.i., that s the first question that would come to their mind and then the next question that they would ask. bill: it s up to comey whether he answers it or not. is it all right for loretta lynch to beat with bill clinton on a tarmac? it s all right for loretta lynch to meet with bill clinton on the tarmac. at the same time recognizing that it put her in a very, very difficult spot. she made the decision to meet with him. it created a huge uproar. she had to recuse herself from the decisions in the hrc email scandal and so, you know, with decisions come consequences? bill: this was said earlier today. i think there are 4 1/2