said, you stipulated that now, what can you do as a co-equal branch of government to fix this, to make sure that trump doesn t do what you re saying he shouldn t do? and his answer was plainly we could put more sanctions on russia. jake, speaker ryan and leader mcconnell just restated the truth, the fact that the intelligence community has assessed what it assessed about russian interference, didn t step out and forcefully criticize the president. they did not. they did the easy thing. they did not, no. practically nobody of serious note and i actually don t want to say that, not many people have gone out and criticized the president by name on this. and we could read the tea leaves and think of a lot of different reasons why that happened. tom cotton didn t. lindsey graham did. it depends on who you are and what your political interests are and what your political calculus is why they didn t. there s a big fight just one more thing. there s a big fight on the
we ve got the supreme court on the verge of a big decision. what if the mandate is thrown out and ruled unconstitutional. where does that leave the country, in your opinion, when it comes to health care? the whole law will be throwh people like, even if people argument against the individual mandate, the idea that you ll be able to carry your children until they re 26, the idea that preexi preexisting, an insurance company can t keep you away, all those things will go down the drain. you have to have the individual main date. people will only buy insurance when they are sick. there s not enough money in the pool to have health insurance. the whole law will go out. i think then the fight in america will be either single payer versus not having health insurance and that will be the great divide more so than we see today. that s the big fight on the horizon if it s struck down.
the things we like that most people like, even if people argument against the individual mandate, the idea that you ll be able to carry your children until they re 26, the idea that preexist preexisting, an insurance company can t keep you away, all those things will go down the drain. you have to have the individual main date. people will only buy insurance when they are sick. there s not enough money in the pool to have health insurance. the whole law will go out. i think then the fight in america will be either single payer versus not having health insurance and that will be the great divide more so than we see today. that s the big fight on the horizon if it s struck down. i think it will come pretty fast. what do we have against it? the republicans have nothing on the table for health care other than to throw it for the private sector. the average family can put up with those rates.
out and ruled unconstitutional. where does that leave the country, in your opinion, when it comes to health care? the whole law will be thrown out. the things we like that most people like, even if people argument against the individual mandate, the idea that you ll be able to carry your children until they re 26, the idea that preexisting, an insurance company can t keep you away, all those things will go down the drain. you have to have the individual main date. people will only buy insurance when they are sick. there s not enough money in the pool to have health insurance. the whole law will go out. i think then the fight in america will be either single payer versus not having health insurance and that will be the great divide more so than we see today. that s the big fight on the horizon if it s struck down. i think it will come pretty fast. what do we have against it? the republicans have nothing
after the house is expected to move quickly with lession with the rules meet a committee meeting on thursday and one week after the new congress begins its work a vote to repeal in the house is expected bret. rob emanuel. sorry you have to come back, mike. thanks. a big fight on the horizon concerns the nation s debt and whether to raise the limit on how much red ink the government can swim in. they look at how that conflict is shaping up. with the nation s debt clock sounding the a. one . items will be resetting it but incoming house republicans like tea party members will not go along without a fight. i think the american people are looking for us to mack a principled stand and do something to get the fiscal responsibility under control.