he did something to make his own legal woes more dire, and the effect on all of washington of a day like today. well i do agree that it only stands to reason that you have to ask what was the motive for the initial tweet? if you didn t have tapes why would you suggest you might? and i think that the possibility of trying to influence a witness is the obvious one. with the by the way it s kind of bizarre when the president of the united states is leaving opening the possibility he is being recorded without his knowledge. but that s a separate question. on the question of the tweets, it s totally unprecedented. if you think about how closely controlled presidential communications have been for as long as we ve lived, the amount of scripting that goes into every utterance of a president, all the staff work involved. now you have not only the city of washington but the federal government and the white house staff itself scrambling to try to understand what did the president just say, wha
able to acknowledge there were room for some tweaks. do you think there is a missed opportunity on the table in washington for democrats and republicans to have made some iks fixes things to have made obamacare more sustainable would you have been open to changes or improvements in obamacare. absolutely. for example for an insurance company going to a new market it has to have reinsurance and the republicans dismantled that. the reason you have to be reinsured you may have a disproproergs knit share of really sick people if that happens you go bankrupt. that s where the reinsurance comes in. republicans took it away. we need to put it back. cost sharing needs to be locked down as absolute responsibility of the administration to do cost sharing. because the president is not willing to commit to doing it we have. how about obama i mean are you are you saying that obamacare in its current form was perfect and there no room for kbroochlt. no realize the exchange was the republica
the senate bill is not much different from the house bill really the president asked for if to be more generous, not as mean. it is not significantly different from the house bill really. low approval ratings ones house bill. there is a lot of unhappy people in in country if these provisions take effect. so there are definitely outside consultants on senate races who felt like they dodged a bullet when the hoist bill looked like it was going to fail before coming back to life. so there is definitely a school of thought that it would be better for every republican involved if this does not become law. and we wonder what makes people cynical about washington. rick stingle. your old boss president obama put out a statement that sounded a little similar.
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. welcome back to the 11th hour the latest time magazine cover features a man cast ago big shadow over washington these days bob shadow. bob mueller. jeremy bash rejoined our panel. still with me here in new york, rick and mike. what do you know about the status of bob mueller s investigation and his efforts to recruit some of the top legal minds in the country? he s assembled the dream team for someone who needs to prosecute the most sensitive criminal and counterintelligence case in american history. he s got on his team not only individuals who can go to the substantive legal defenses like money laundering, lying under oath, but also those appellate lawyers who argued tricky issues when they go on appeal to the appellate courts, as to whether or not a president in this situation engaged in obstruction