to the rules on employer contributions to those plans. so it s not a concept of taking coverage away. it s the approach actually obliging members of congress to follow the exact law that the folks that they govern are following. so forcing them onto the obamacare exchanges? is that what it is? they are already on the exchanges. let s make that clear. all is that stuff you read on the internet that congress exempted themselves from obamacare is not right. when i was a member of congress, i had to be on the exchanges. the special exemption dealt with the employer contribution, how much your employer when you re a member of congress, that s the federal government, can contribute to your coverage. and that s the rule that the president was talking about in his tweet yesterday. lastly, sir, are you optimistic that general kelly, secretary kelly, will bring a discipline to the white house that is needed? absolutely. i think that s why he s there. take reince at his word. i don t thin
russian collusion delusion? though the idea, fred, of moving jeff sessions from the department of justice to the department of homeland security is a wild theory, it certainly is a possibility, because sessions has already been confirmed by the senate, the president could move him to dhs and have his lead the department of home security for up to 210 days as he then goes and nominates a different attorney general, perhaps one, fred that wouldn t have to recuse themselves from the russia investigation. all right. boris san xhchez thank you so m from the nation s capital. so as john kelly prepares for his new role those close to the president of confident he will bring a sense of discipline and order to the white house. take reince at his word. i don t think reince is hiding the ball on this at all. the president wanted to change directions. wanted to go a different way in the way that office was managed. i think reince was terribly effective but probablialities bit more laid bac
enforcement agencies to change the rules of the use of force when it comes to making arrest against ms-13. i m not aware of any specific changes. sarah, anthony scaramucci was on cnn today talking about reince priebus saying quote if he wants to prove is he not a leaker, let him do it. i can t imagine you would speak on anthony s behalf. but, if you would, does he think that reince priebus is a leaker or does the white house? does the president think reince is a leaker? i m not going to comment on anthony s suggestion. i will let him answer for himself. i think i made pretty clear where the president is. and i don t have anything to add beyond that. does the president believe that tax overhaul should increase the budget deficit or should be revenue neutral? look, we are continuing to make announcements of the details of the tax reform plan as i m sure you all saw there was a joint statement that came out earlier today and we are making a lot of progress on this front as we ge
care next week? i think my view is it s probably going to be dead. the draft plan has now been serious rewrite, and so we don t know what the serious rewrite. clearly the draft plan is dead. obama care is failing. whether or not we can come together, i don t know. mitch is trying. i would support the proposal before us, but you got different camps in the republican party, but obama care is going to fail. my advice is if it does fail, work together in a bipartisan fashion to replace it. i don t know what the outcome would be, but mitch is trying really hard. all right. let s get into this now. joining us from washington is politico s daniel lipman, co-author of the political playbook. once again, you heard a lot of differing opinions there on the future of this bill. reince priebus said this weekend he expects congress to give them a bill by the august recess or shortly after. give us the prognosis here. what do you think is going to happen with the health care bill moving forwa
with getting back on the trail, getting out there and, you know, doing rallies again, he tweeted just a few moments ago he s going to decide on paris, make america great again, ignoring the fact that an enormous part of our country believes that we should stay in paris. the president continuing to show he doesn t exactly know how trade works, he doesn t exactly know how currencies work. why is it that we continue to say reince is the problem? the president has shown no restraint or ability to hand over the reins to his chief of staff. freud would describe this as a classic case of displacement. that the problem is the problem of the staff as opposed to the head of the staff. until we understand it, everything follows from the head, no matter what he does downstream, we will still have the chaos. i think this is displacement, whether it s lewandowski, whether it s cohn, it s still going to be a white house that has to in some ways deal with the volatility of trump s personality. i d