bipartisan infrastructure framework and larger human infrastructure package as well and of course, they re preparing just in case we do get to a situation where next thursday there s no deal in sight for passing a continuing resolution which, again, you about keeping the lights on here in washington. jake, listen to what house minority leader kevin mccarthy today is saying about a potential shutdown and democrats. let s listen. they are in the majority. they control what comes to the floor. they have wasted all of this time. the only people that will get any blame for this is the democrats and their management. are they banking, jake, on americans blaming democrats for any potential shutdown or debt default? sure. they believe democrats do control the white house. the house and the senate. they do. they believe they can make a credible case, mitch mcconnell is making this case, that democrats should be responsible for the nitty-gritty of governing and that s not been the case i
is troubling, especially when doing it before a military audience as he did yesterday. but as a tactic to get the media doing that, saying things like he said yesterday in front of the media saying the media doesn t cover terror attacks which is completely false and we re talking about that and not about this travel ban likely going to the supreme court? it s a distraction. it s a tactic. it s a strategy, and i don t think i can say it enough. it will be hard to sustain because at some point he has to get more into the nitty-gritty of governing. of course, it s damaging to the press and distrustful because we have thick skins. reporters can always take criticism, but when you say things that we don t opt terrorism, when you take that broad sweep from local to national to international, it s just not true. and the reporter who did the follow-up today, in the white house had a very good question. are you saying, sir, that it s underreported, which is, okay,
something done. and following through on really nitty gritty of governing. something he s never wanted to do. we talked about whether he s doing it in a way that is constitutional and allowed. right now, barack obama helped create this problem for 5 million americans now, he wants to solve it you ve got these folks we call lawmakers saying you can t do that mr. president, you can t exclude us. and we started the show with a clip of then candidate obama in 2008. upset about excesses of presidential power under george bush, here is a sample of it. stand by. this is the theory of george bush he can make laws as he s going along. i taught the constitution ten years. i believe the constitution and will obey the constitution of the united states.
problem with that, anderson, is that if they do away with the insurance mandate, which requires people to buy health insurance, you take away the funding mechanism that pays for all of those people to have health insurance, with pre-existing conditions. and so, as they get into the nitty-gritty of governing, they re going to find out this is going to be difficult. by the way, anderson, if donald trump is going to start backing away from repealing obamacare, he s going to have a lot of trouble with people on the right here in washington. he s been talking about draining the swamp. he may find himself in the swamp with conservatives, if he backs off that campaign promise. it is one of the key promises from his presidential campaign. first decisions he s got to make are staffing. what are your sources telling you about the transition team? chris christie s no longer running it. we know that. right. he s no longer running it. it s now the vice president-elect, mike pence, who was the c
transition team. for all of that, let s go to our jim acosta in washington. first of all, this obamacare news, a bit of a shift for a candidate who spent a lot of time saying just repeal and replace obamacare. what do we know this idea of amending instead of repealing and replacing? right, anderson, it s impossible to count the number of times donald trump promised to repeal obamacare, to get rid of obamacare, because he said it so many times out tonight campaign trail. this is a pretty interesting shift, we re going to have to find out just how far he s willing to go. it sounds like, anderson, what he wants to do is allow people with pre-existing condition to keep their health insurance and not be discriminated against by the insurance companies, but the problem with that, anderson, is that if they do away with the insurance mandate, which requires people to buy health insurance, you take away the funding mechanism that pays for all of those people to have health insurance, with pre