Reporter in the oval office this morning, President Trump declared obamacare is on its last leg. Obamacare is virtually dead. Reporter just five days ago, he cut off 7 billion in subsidies that help lowerincome americans. People who make too much to qualify for medicaid, but still need help paying for their coverage. Americans like nevada retiree marcy shelton. I am not a deadbeat. I pay my bills. Ive worked hard all of my life. This is what i was told, that this was going to be there for me. Reporter 6 million americans benefit from these subsidies, nearly 70 of them live in states that voted for trump. But the president today described the payments as a handout to Insurance Companies. This is money that goes to the Insurance Companies to line their pockets, to raise up their stock prices and theyve had a record run. Reporter but just minutes later, he seemed to back a new bipartisan deal to restore those same payments. The solution will be for about a year or two years and it will ge
i ve written them personal letters. they ve been sent, or they re going out tonight, but they were written during the weekend. reporter: but then, he said this the traditional way, if you look at president obama, and other presidents, most of them didn t make calls. a lot of them didn t make calls. i like to call when it s appropriate, when i think i m able to do it. reporter: he tried to walk it back. president obama, i think, probably did sometimes and maybe sometimes he didn t. i don t know. that s what i was told. all i can do all i can do is ask my generals. reporter: but the backlash was immediate. president obama s attorney general tweeted, stop the damn lying, you re the president. an aide to president george w. bush said he called and/or met privately with hundreds if not thousands of grieving families. and some gold star families, going public with their outrage, too. this mom tweeting, trump does not speak for me and did not speak for my son. he is an em
capitol hill. you re going to be meeting with himneck week? neck week. i will be very focused on woman s right to use, voting rights, a balance of how he views corporate interests versus individual rights. judge gorsuch has written hundreds if not thousands of decisions. so you haven t ruled out a possible vote yes or no either way? i have some pretty serious concerns. i think that president trump said he wanted a justice who would overturn roe v. wade. this is not a president who likes to have people who have different opinions because he did fire the acting attorney general, for example, when she stood up to him on his exit have order. so i think that he asked this nominee a series of questions relating to things like choice for women, corporate interests and all of that.
awakend to the double standard. i have to say i was definitely on the critical end of things as were members of my family. we were very, very, very concerned about how far the bush administration pushed the boundaries of not only what is constitutional but what is morally right, and this is definitely in the same category. obviously a democratic administration white house secret war policy memos are very different from the bush administration s secret war policy memos, and i assume the democrats have written them on recycled paper. in an editorial this week, the new york sometimes la meanted that president obama has, quote, stretched executive power for years to bolster the lethal drone program, but of president bush in 2008 the paper wrote that he had issued, quote, hundreds if not thousands of secret orders and subjected the constitution to, quote,