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Introducing gig-speed internet from xfinity. finally, gig for your neighborhood too. welcome back to state of the union. i m jake tapper. president trump is now threatening to withhold payments to insurance companies that help low-income consumers in retaliation for republicans failing to move forward on repealing and replacing obamacare. joining me now is independent senator bernie sanders of the great state of vermont. senator sanders, always good to see you. thanks for joining us. let s just plunge right into health care. president trump threatening on twitter both lawmakers and insurance companies on saturday saying he s prepared to cut ....
Organically applauding you. i don t know if that happens to you every time you get off an airplane in bangor, maine. but it was a pretty remarkable thing. what is the response you re getting? it really was so extraordinary, heartwarming and affirming. i got off the plane, and there was a large group of outbound passengers, none of whom i happened to know. and spontaneously some of them started applauding and then virtually all of them started to applaud. it was just amazing. i ve never had that happen in the 20 years that i ve been privileged to serve in the senate. so it was very encouraging and affirming. especially arriving back home after a very difficult time. a very difficult time, very contentious time. president trump, as you know, is hoping to revive the effort to repeal and replace obamacare. he needs the vote of one more ....
Tenure as homeland security secretary and the very extreme policies of promoting family dislocation, deportation of innocent men and women and children, breaking up families, promoting a muslim ban, promoting a wall between the united states and mexico. those are extreme policies. and so this is very troublesome to me, to have this kind of power now centralized in the white house because these are very serious matters and these are extreme policies. but believe you me, as it relates to his service in the military, again, coming from a military family, i recognize and honor the servicemen and women of our country. original trump backers gave reen priebus a chance because he really earned it on the campaign trail. he was a real asset to the president. but we ve had six months of this and we re all very hopeful now, those of us who backed trump from the very beginning, that general kelly can do a better job of marshaling the white house, the cabinet members and the president himself in ....
one of only three republican senators to vote no. senator susan collins joins me in minutes. and democrats battle back. i hope we can work together to make the system better. can democrats use this victory? we are back. to strengthen their party s agenda. senator bernie sanders is here live on what comes next. hello. i m jake tapper. where the state of our union is tense after a friday staffing shake-up, secretary and retired marine general john kelly is now fewer than 24 hours away from officially starting his new job as white house chief of staff. and one of his first orders of business could be dealing with an international crisis. just hours ago the u.s. military announced a skull test of its thaad missile defense system not long after flying u.s. bombers over the korean peninsula. this is in direct response to a friday ballistic missile launch by north korea. meanwhile president trump is taking aim at china saying he s ....
Discussion of what the american people want. i do want to ask you about a tweet that president trump sent out saturday that was kind of cr cryptic. bailouts for insurance companies and bailouts for members of congress will end very soon. on the bailouts for insurance companies, i ll get to that in a second. is the president threatening to cut off funding for the health insurance plans, for members of congress? is that what that means? bailouts for members of congress? i talked to the president at length about that exact issue yesterday. his attitude is pretty simple. keep in mind, he does have this way of channeling a large number of the american public. what he s saying is, look, if obamacare is hurting people, and it is, then why shouldn t it hurt insurance companies and, more importantly perhaps for this discussion, members of congress. there is a certain benefit that members of congress get as part of an opm decision a couple of years ago. the president is simply looking that the ....