superstitions but this takes it to a whole new level, take a look at the houston astros third baseman alex, can you see a difference here before and after, in the middle of a slump he ditched his mustache actually in the middle of the game. heather: wow, only seemed to make things worse, actually, slamming helmet, you can see in disgust, he did not come up with a hit the entire game, the astros won the game 11-3. all the superstitions. the time now is 25 minutes after the top of the hour and obamacare on life support, it could cost you big bucks to keep it alive, premiums set to spike by double digits so how can republicans get rid of it once and for all. our political panel on deck to debate it but first live look at capitol hill for you this morning, 4:25 on the east coast
last night one of those sound bites you played was a speech from last night. he made it clear he wasn t going to go with any sort of bailout. i think he spoke off-the-cuff yesterday when he said he supported it. and now he commands the to her making this effort. bret: here is senator alexander on the compromise leading up to what he says are conservative victories. this is what we need to do in the meantime. it gives us a few steps toward what we most want which are more options for the states to give people choices of insurance at lower costs. there are more victories for conservatives in the alexander-murray compromised we ve had eight years of arguing about obamacare. bret: guy who likes compromise sometimes, speaker paul ryan, through a spokesperson says the speaker does not see in him that changes his view that the senate should keep its focus on repeal and
replace of obamacare. seems a.b. that we are back to square one. yeah. actually the president did lead senator alexander on and talk to him over the weekend. he said i don t want us people to suffer. lamar alexander felt he could come out and say that out loud. lamar alexander doesn t give a lot of interviews. doesn t talk to the press very much. he was encouraged by the way to not have fox news go into a county that trump won where people say my whole life took a bad turn in november of 2017 after those csr payments were cut. he knew this was going to do. i was told last week he was in a meeting at the white house, spent the entire meeting trying to drive the conversation to a health care deal. he wants this behind him. but he had pressure from his crowd last night. he had pressure from mark meadows of the freedom caucus, spoke positively about this deal
take a couple years to be implemented to do these block grants to states for that repeal and replace version. that was a step for the senate. house had passed a bill and the cassidy-graham bill was not where to be anything like it so we are still going to be a long way away. i think for republicans, you have to remember it is taking a while to soak in about how catastrophic this obamacare failure was. the reason there s all this tension about tax reform right now is the basis as we screwed up obamacare and if we mess up on taxes, it will be a total disaster and we will lose our jobs. this is not something that s gone away. with the president did with this order to cut off these csr subsidies is put the pressure on congress to actually do something. they are feeling it, and that s why we had the murray-alexander thing. bret: we talk about the constitutionality question. congress had to appropriated. i want to turn to the other
letters and make calls to the families of the four soldiers kn niger, saying the notification came from the pentagon last week. the president said he wrote letters over the weekend and monday the white house military office scheduled yesterday s condolence calls. the controversy was unfolding this morning as president trump met with members of the senate finance committee. the gathering was about tax reform but the president made headlines by rejecting the new alexander-murray senate agreement on obamacare subsidies. i won t do anything to enrich the insurance companies. right now the insurance companies are being enriched. they ve been enriched by obamacare like nothing anyone s ever seen before. the rejection reversed president trump s earlier optimism about the deal. administration official tells fox news the agreement does not make reforms necessary to lower costs and obamacare markets. does not give hhs significant new waiver authority and includes more than $100 million