huge number, but it s enough. in a 50/50 senate where you have to get just 50, you talk about those people plus now the people who have objection on the health care thing. i thought the tax cut bill, i thought before they added the health care issue into it, i thought it had a decent chance of flying through. i disagree with that. democrats were making no headway against it. let me let you respond. the obamacare mandate, which is the only thing that would be removed from this bill, is unpopular. obamacare, as a term may now be popular but mandate is unpopular but kicking 13 million people off health care because of rising premiums they re not kicking them off the rolls. you are not you are making it no longer a matter of a penalty they have to pay if they don t go into the system. 13 million fewer people with insurance. sit down and talk to a tax accountant who really knows the tax code, somebody who really knows it and they ll all tell
has eluded everyone for such a long time? that is some certainty for the millions of americans out there on what exactly their health care is going to be? exactly. this something that affects actual people. what is interesting though is what the president will do, right? on one hand and one breath touting his determination not to send these csr payments. in other breath saying, sure, this short term, which is actually two years, is something that he could get behind. so that s a big question here. but democrats have very much wanted to at least come to the table here and stabilize the marketplace because they don t want this to they don t want the law to unralph. they don t want obamacare to be virtually dead. right. but he eptd kept saying he mentioned marie alexander but kept going back to graham/cassidy saying i believe we have the votes, we are very close. no? it s just not true otherwise they would have passed it a few weeks ago. they have several republican
got a gazillion of them. we ve compared trump s speech with reagan s speech, maybe that s not fair. there are certain times that trump does speak clearly and simply what he wants to do. let s play a clip. i m doing the right thing, it s not good for me, believe me. [applaus [applause] but what is good for me, not only as president and legacy, what is good for me is if everything takes off like a rocket ship, like it should have for 20 years. david: so, mike, a rising tide lifts all boats. he is that the message he s making there. trump s problem in getting tax reform, david, hasn t been that he hasn t been out there getting the message across, he has. most people in this country are for tax reform. his policy would be pro growth, just like most people don t want obamacare and people were for supporting getting rid of obamacare with something different.
i think we re going the end up doing that. i hopfully will have something included in the debt ceiling bill that will advance some physical discipline but also provide for the solutions we need that the american people are asking for. on the health care bill, people still overwhelmingly in my community want obamacare repealed, they want a solution. so we have to come up with a solution. the american health care act wasn t perfect. let s go back to the drawing board. i don t care what we call it, repeal, replace, repair. we have to do something that provides for the people that are suffering. those are the small business community, the people that provide almost 70% of our new jobs, the people we ll rely on to bring back our economy, especially in upstate new york where we really need the help. there are a lot of things we re doing aggressively. we just need to have the democrats stopping obstructionists, stop filing fake news stories and come out and help us, help us help the american
any reason to think that they re going to fix it now. it could very speedily, if they were going to vote for this, it goes to the house, gets voted in and gets signed and then you have catastrophe and then perhaps something and that s how you wind up with a situation where republicans are both terrified to pass the bill and terrified not to. and here s what i don t understand. they re so terrified to do nothing and for their constituents to pummel them for not repealing obamacare when obamacare is more popular than any of them are and including the president and when most people in this country don t want obamacare to be repealed it s not popular for republicans, though. they want it to be fixed. guess what, the president is not just president of republicans. he s president of the whole country. right. we ve got to take a quick break. more breaking news. attorney general sessions responding to the president s continued attacks on him. what he has to say when we come bac