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First order of business, and hell probably start to roll back some of what president obama did. Obviously, the congress is poised to repeal obamacare. There was a report, i guess, early last week, about 178,000 jobs that would be lost in pennsylvania and a doubling of the state budget as a result of that. I think the changes that are needed to obamacare, which are both branding and substantive are probably appropriate. Completely removing the bill before theres something to replace it strikes me as very shortsighted, and we should remember that there were no public hearings held in the process of creating obamacare. The republicans in congress and the president would be wise to engage the American Public in a debate about the future of a segment of the economy which represents 18 of gdp. Critics are jumping in already, even with some of the cabinet pick nominations and the hearings weve been watching in the past week, saying, loo ....
Trumps onetime rival, senator rand paul. And, the top democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, adam schiff. Plus, former Campaign Managers robby mook and Corey Lewandowski go head to head. From abc news, its this week. Here now, chief White House Correspondent jonathan karl. Good morning. 31 days in. Liberals are freaking out. Trump diehards fired up. The one thing all of america can agree on. We have never seen anything like it. Were used to watching new president s take office with choreographed policy plans. Rolled out with careful words. This, a machine gun blast of big promises. The rhetoric loud, aggressive. Chaotic. The question is this a finetuned machine delivering promise after promise at a record pace . Or, an administr ....
Gossip and rumor is the coin of the political realm, so its not surprising that these rumors of someones demise continue to perpetuate. I thought it was so funny that Chris Brennan actually tracked him down. Yeah. And took a selfie and said, no, hes not locked up. Hes actually right here. So, i think in terms of what happens to him next, it all depends on whether or not another shoe drops. So i think if there are any Legal Proceedings that look like an indictment or anything like that, i think that therell be much more pressure. Sam, some people dont want him to resign because then theyd have to appoint a new d. A. , and that person then would get a leg up if they wanted to run. But at a certain point, is it something worth thinking about . Like, can he be effective at all . Well, he has a fairly stiff financial burden hanging over his head from the city ethics committee. I ....
6 billion in profits. The ceo makes 25 million as a base salary. They spent 11 million fighting the tax on tv. Theyve spent hundreds of thousands of dollars every month on lobbyists and lawyers. And they take it out on the guy in the bottling plant . I mean, to me, theyre using their employees as pawns to create anger and mistrust and to try to get the tax away. But the tax has been passed. Its not going away unless a court kills it. And from the retailer side, guys like jeff brown and others at shoprite, i mean, he just opened a store yesterday inside the city limits. Hes talking on one hand about cutting employee hours. On the other hand, hes opening a new store. I had a young man come up to me last week, and he said to me, i really like you, but you cost me a dollar for every 16ounce soda i buy. I said, nope. The tax is a quarter. The 75 cents extra is going in the retailers pocket. Theyve been taxing this product before the tax even went into effect, and theyve been stockpiling the ....
Congressman, good to see you. Thanks for joining us. Brian, good to be with you and your listeners. Happy easter to you. Likewise. Let us sort of start with the tone in washington. So much news over the last several days about the strike in syria a week ago, the dropping of a bomb in eastern afghanistan, sabrerattling on both sides with respect to north korea certainly the United States and north korea involved in that china and russia. Sir, are we headed toward an inevitable military showdown of some kind on a large scale . Well, you raised the point that we really moved away from local issues, national issues, to the International Stage quite quickly with the syrian use of the chemical weapons. So we begin with the question of putins responsibility and role in that. Maybe not directly responsible, but hows he gonna act with respect to assad . You have iran working in pa ....