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republican senators are unable to pass what they are working on now they should repeal and then replace at a later date. what are the main obstacles of an agreement and what are the consequences of the g.o.p. if they fail to pass a bill? let s ask wall street journal columnist and deputy editor dan henning gear editorial board member and columnist bill mcgern. joe, you cover this for us. what are the divisions inside the republican party that are preventing an agreement? well, there are two camps. one it s the conservatives. people like ted cruz, ron johnson who are kind of disappointed that it doesn t do enough on deregulation. i think they are amenable to a deal. the real problem are the moderates. they paul: who are you talking about? i m talking about rob portman. paul: of ohio. shellie of west virginia. bill cassidy of louisiana. i mean, there is a whole list of them. paul: all right. what s their beef. their main problem is with medicaid. they think th ....
republican senators are unable to pass what they are working on now they should repeal and then replace at a later date. what are the main obstacles of an agreement and what are the consequences of the g.o.p. if they fail to pass a bill? let s ask wall street journal columnist and deputy editor dan henning gear editorial board member and columnist bill mcgern. joe, you cover this for us. what are the divisions inside the republican party that are preventing an agreement? well, there are two camps. one it s the conservatives. people like ted cruz, ron johnson who are kind of disappointed that it doesn t do enough on deregulation. i think they are amenable to a deal. the real problem are the moderates. they paul: who are you talking about? i m talking about rob portman. paul: of ohio. shellie of west virginia. bill cassidy of louisiana. i mean, there is a whole list of them. paul: all right. what s their beef. their main problem is with medicaid. they think th ....
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days of a trump administration would look like. and the republican nominee promised once in a lifetime change if he s elected november 8th. so with just over two weeks to go, will the plan he laid out help him close the polling gap with hillary clinton? let s ask wall street journal columnist and deputy editor dan henining and mary an stay that o grady, bill mcgurn and kim strassel. dan, new contract with america, closing argument. they advertised this for a couple days. what did you make of it? he calls it the contract with donald j. trump and it was not a hail mary. there were 15 or 20 hail marys. let me say this on his behalf, there is more change in that speech than hillary clinton will ever produce for the rest of her life. no question about it. there was a lot. and there was a lot of good things at the end on taxes, on energy, on regulation, specific proposals for tax reform, for reforming the energy system. but i think let s cut to the chase, he doesn t have ....
and kansas congressman mike pompeo. here with a look are wall street journal columnist dan henning ger, senior fellow jason riley, editorial board member mary kissell and assistant editorial page editor james freeman. let s start with pence. a little bit of night of the long knives in transition with chris christie getting the knife in the back, i guess, and being pushed out. mike pence taking charge. what do you think of that? i think it s an upgrade. when i look at this trump transition, most of all, i m surprised at how conventional it is really. you have all these names coming out are people who have a lot of experience in government. you might have thought given his unconventional campaign we d see ronde rusie ordain in white as secretary of defense. why is pence an upgrade from christie? i think from a limited government perspective, mike pence is really the person who reassured a lot of conservatives during the campaign, persuaded a lot of republicans to ....