Casualties. There has, in fact, been a surge in reported civilian casualties in the u. S. Air campaign against the socalled islamic state. And under trump, a massive increase in u. S. Drone strikes, more broadly, almost one every two days according to the council on u. S. Foreign relations. Today, tragically, marked the third time this month a u. S. Led air strike may have killed civilians or even our allies, with 18 syrian fighters alied with the u. S. Killed in a Coalition Air strike in syria. The pentagon blamed partner forces. That news comes on the heels of last weeks air strike in syria and now today the decision to launch the mother of all bombs. And we are just 84 days into the Trump Administration. Im joined by Steve Schmidt larry corb. Larry, im going to go to you first because there is a very strange donald trump relationship to the military. He claimed during the came papa
that you knew more about the generals, that he was smarter about isis, now hes in office hes outsource
circumstances like that. now, what we have said all along is if they officially drop their proposals to destroy the affordable care act and we talk about iterating legislation and working on a bipartisan basis, everybody knows aca doesn t work perfectly. but everybody also knows that for any major social legislation, that you iterate it over years, whether it s the social security act, the medicare act, whatever it may be, the clean air, the clean water act. you have updates to that law. this is one of the very few major social changes that had no updates into the statute, which is why it s a little clunky. if they want to get back to legislating in good faith, we are more than open to that. but they have to drop repeal from their vocabulary. and how far are democrats willing to go? if donald trump withdraws from this was essentially a lawsuit that the house republicans brought, saying that the subsidies to these insurance companies were unconstitutional. at the moment, it s on app
which will make hospitals and hospital systems fall apart, if his threat is essentially, i m going to inflict pain on people and destroy the american health care system, or i ll do it with you, we re not going to negotiate under any circumstances like that. now, what we have said all along is if they officially drop their proposals to destroy the affordable care act and we talk about iterating legislation and working on a bipartisan basis, everybody knows aca doesn t work perfectly. but everybody also knows that for any major social legislation, that you iterate it over years, whether it s the social security act, the medicare act, whatever it may be, the clean air, the clean water act. you have updates to that law. this is one of the very few major social changes that had no updates into the statute, which is why it s a little clunky. if they want to get back to legislating in good faith, we are more than open to that. but they have to drop repeal from their vocabulary.
medicaid and social security? are you ready to deal with those issues where most of the federal spending takes place? there s zero national debt in social security. don t lump that one in. that one is lending to make the deficit look smaller. medicare is concerned, a year ago almost to the day we passed a health care bill that saved $500 million in waste and duplication in the medicare act and extended ten years to its life expectancy. health reform act we got so much savings that my friend paul ryan is counting them as savings in his bill. the fact of the matter is that mr. chaffetz is correct, we re borrowing money to give tax cuts to billionaire. did that make sense to any of your viewers, i d like to see who they are. borrowing money to give tax cuts to billionaires. are you ready to make any more changes? i ll phrase it like that. congressman weiner, to medicare and medicaid to reduce the national debt? of course.