Joe Mathieu

You heard what Eric was just telling us here.

It looks like we are going to go over the cliff.

Should our viewers and listeners, people who are actually on these plans, these Obamacare plans, should they expect this to be their new reality?

So the affordability crisis that we've been talking about and the president calls a Democrat hoax, it's about to get worse, right?

If we look at this through a wider frame, this feeds into higher costs that people are facing across the board, Congressman.

There's no question.

Well, we just were talking about the possibility of another shutdown, and I don't know if anyone has the appetite for that.

But I just want to ask you quickly about one of the options that is under consideration in the House of Representatives, realizing these both failed today in the Senate.

There's a discharge petition that's been put up by Brian Fitzpatrick.

It's also got a Democrat on this as well.

It's Brian Fitzpatrick, as I mentioned, on the Republican side.

If there are enough votes here, this could be forced to the floor, Congressman, and it would extend the Obamacare subsidies by a couple of years, but also would add eligibility requirements.

Is that something that you would vote for if you had the chance?

Congressman, I want you to put on your foreign relations cap here and talk to us about what's happening off the coast of Venezuela because the United States has decided to seize an oil tanker.

The president says that we will probably keep the oil.

There are questions about what happens to the crew and whether more of these are about to happen.

The U.S.

has just sanctioned six more of these.

Is this the way things work now in the Caribbean?

When does that go to the floor, Congressman, and will you get a single Republican vote?