About mexico, here is President Trump announcing the cancellation of his meeting with the mexican president in philadelphia today. The president of mexico and myself have agreed to cancel our planned meeting scheduled for next week. Unless mexico is going to treat the United States fairly, with respect, such a meeting would be fruitless and i want to go a different route. We have no choice. So david, was this sort of a mutual agreement, a mutual cancellation, or do you think that the mexican president pulled the plug . I think that the mexican president pulled the plug, and he did that because donald trump frankly put him in a corner. He kept in a tweet sort of pushing mexico saying you know you have to pay for the wall. I think nieto has to worry about his own political audience, mexicans were outraged, angry at
him for months, if we talk this way to china, chinese are not going to stand for china backing down. This is very different from a Business Deal where youre bluffing. Foreign
was to do with medicare. obamacare, it s huge news. the republicans have given up the ghost on fighting obamacare. affordable care act is apparently going to be the law for the rest of our lives. we ll explain that later. this is hardball, where the action is. (burke) at farmers, we ve seen almost everything, so we know how to cover almost anything. even a huge drag.
the democratic house is not interested in that. there are serious problems with obamacare that need to get fixed. they raised the phony issue that we are against pre-existing conditions. the rhetoric doesn t solve problems and there are serious problems and we have to address it on a bipartisan basis. cutting through the bs he was saying the fight s over. i think that was more-or-less what he was saying. the interesting part was when the reporter said, if you look at the exit polls. that tells you everything about this election and 2020, if this isn t resolved, i thought it was interesting that trump yesterday, for all his bombastic theatrics, did sound like he wanted a deal on healthcare and he signaled, i ve got plenty of give here. ronald reagan, in 1982, knew the fight over whether social
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security should be social security said we will fix this thing, we won t stop this fight. this fight is over. it is. all the bombasticness the republicans had in talking about affordable healthcare since its inception, nothing has worked for them. the truth is when you put policy in people s lives, embedded in their routine, hard to beat. they love to fight against it. mitch mcconnell couldn t be happier he gets to fight against obamacare, he gets to say in two years time, the democrats didn t do anything, they re obstructionists. republicans are extremely excited to not have to try to fix it. if democrats don t take this deal from republicans they don t want a deal. do they want a deal? maybe they just like the issue. healthcare is a good democratic issue. it still is. it would be nice if after all the fighting we could get something done. they do make 170 a year to get something done.