we're down here bust ouing our behinds. irrespective of donald trump, republican policies, at least these policies, aren't benefiting every day ordinary people. >> can the president continue to blame democrats when the bill he backed in the house was opposed by more than 100 republicans a few months ago? what i'm giving you are facts. >> right. >> i worry that they don't matter. >> yes, facts have become rather irrelevant, haven't they? >> i don't want to be cute about that. let's get serious. >> i mean, look, the president's strategy is clear. we live in an age of negative partisanship. as ashley pointed out, they could be running on the economy. on a lot of things. they decided to run on, you know, the fear and the mobs and going after democrats. but look, you know, i think what democrats have to do is first of all have a little bit of message discipline. stop distracting from their message. stop stepping on their message. over last several days, we had hillary clinton talking about,