come back here to try to make a difference. i want to congratulate you on the difference you have made. now one of the questions i would ask you is why you re willing to leave a place with so much responsibility and background and capability to be willing to be the secretary of health and human services. thank you, senator. when i think about the mission of the department of health and human services, which is to improve the health, safety, and wellbeing of the american people, it s what i ve literally spent my life trying to do. and so to have the opportunity to participate if confirmed, to be to serve as the secretary of health and human services and to try to guide that organization in a direction that would further fulfill that mission, i can t think of anything more exciting for fulfilling. i think you have the background for doing that too,
with the wide range of experience you had between the different practices and hospitals and then coming here and going through a num
suitorman, senior editor at reason magazine. kasie, let me start with you. we ve already seen far right groups like heritage action criticize the plan, club for growth as well, freedom works, rand paul calling it obamacare light. you tweeted this a few hours ago. here it is, it is still early so caveats apply but events of today suggest gop health care bill is already on life support, if not dead on arrival. how can that be so early, kasie? reporter: well look, craig, this bill has run into extraordinary opposition just in the first handful of hours that it has been out in the public, and you re saying you tick through some of the groups that have come out and opposed this, the heritage action went so far as to say this doesn t repeal obamacare. that of course kind of the cardinal sin for a party that has spent the last however many years campaigning specifically on repealing obamacare. so the people who are
to younger people and less generous to older people. there would be a
of the trump campaign. just to state the obvious that we all know, the president shoots from the hip. i m not sure there was a ton of fore thought into what he said about sessions. i think he was honest and blunt about his feelings at that moment in time. they are feelings that he has had on and off for some time now. the russian investigation as we all know kind of won t go away as a story line partly because there s an open investigation but also because the president is preoccupied with it and he brings it up all the time, in private conversations and apparently in public ones. i think there s a real concern in terms of the comments he s made obviously because they also seem to indicate that, you know, first he wants loyalty from comey, now he wants loyalty or allegiance from attorney general, like he s wanting to run this the way he runs his business, which is not the way the government works and certainly not the way the justice department works, which is an independent inst
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one concession, according to sources he has agreed to reduce his number of questions from pandas initial list of 49 and he s willing to accept some answers in writing, but others he still wants oral answers to. sources say it talks continue but add there is a long way to go. rudy giuliani told fox news his inclination is still to say no to an interview but president trump wants him to keep talking with mueller. news of the mueller response followed a this morning in which president trump criticized the investigation and strongest language yet. the president tweeting this is a terrible situation, attorney general jeff sessions should stop this rigged witch hunt right now before it continues to stay in our country any further. the white house was quick to proclaim he was airing his frustration, not telling jeff sessions what to do. piece stating his opinion clearly and is express
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manufacturing jobs and china joined the wgo. right now china is not happy with me. but i have great respect for president xi and for china. it s not their fault that our leaders were stupid. for decades, our politicians ran for office pledgeing to crackdown on unfair trade. but they never did anything. but once celebrielected they di absolutely nothing and our workers and our country got ripped off like no country ever before in the history of the world. we got ripped off. it was a massive transfer of wealth to other countries. the politicians just watched as other countries stole our jobs, plundered our wealth and got the [cheers and applause]. probably will never happe