front page of the new york times and will be on the front page of every paper. house passes the aca. hts the religious liberty order or something about susan rice. i m thinking to myself or berkeley. ann coulter. it s like what s going on here? this was a big victory. i can t find conservatives who are anywhere near as enthused as people on the left are, as anna is saying, angry about it. it just shows the degree to which none of this stuff is on the level, right? it shows why the american people are so angry, so disgusted, so fed up with washington, d.c., with politics. i mean after seven years, you know, however many dozens of votes to repeal obamacare, a couple of things are clear. republicans came in with full control of the government, had absolutely no idea what to do about it. there s no actual plan. there s no actual plan even in the bill they voted for without reading, with no analysis about how to reorder one-sixth of the economy.
and i would be watching closely this georgia six special election and see the impact there. anna, you work for move on, and i was curious what the perspective is from where you re sitting because this seemed to me like rock fuel for the resistance. i remember back in 2009, those aca votes inspired organizing. the tea party. people gave money. they showed up. what does this look like from where you are? yeah. well, first of all it s worth saying at every juncture, let s reground ourselves on the substance. this is first and foremost a moral obscenity. this is 24 million people being kicked off their health care so aca votes inspired organizing. the tea party. people gave money. they showed up. what does this look like from where you are? yeah. well, first of all it s worth saying at every juncture, let s reground ourselves on the substance. this is first and foremost a moral obscenity. this is 24 million people being kicked off their health care so that there can be a tax break gi
being basically part of the administrative apparatus dealing with immigration. that s problem one. problem to two is the law itself tries to reduce the states and localities into administrative cogs in the machinery of the federal government and the supreme court said in the 1997 case dealing with the brady handgun violence prevention act that you can t the federal government cannot commandeer the resources and the bureaucracies of state and local governments. in fact, this is an abiding belief that one i think will be out the window. it s an abiding belief of conservative justices including john roberts and the reason we don t have medicaid in a lot of states is because the court struck down in a 7-2 vote the way it was written. you re looking live at tempe, arizona. anna, there s popular mobilization and things in the court. how are you seeing these? we are seeing an unprecedented motion certainly in our lifetimes and maybe in history of people in the
again you re seeing that on the state and local level. we ll e itncreasingly on the federal level as well. congresan, what role do you have in a congressional minority in the house which is often not particularly empowered. the house gives a lot of power to the majority. not like the senate where there s procedural elements that every senator has access to. what do you see as your role as you watch these executive orders being issued and the ones you substantively don t agree with how you oppose them. well, we re increasingly empowered by the massive popular resistance anna was describing. the more people get out and protest and manifest their opposition, the stronger we are in congress. but, look, i think the opposition to trump s agenda is already starting to be bipartisan in nature. representative will hurd, with whom i serve on the house oversight and government reform committee expressed his pop sigs to the trump wall today and he represents the district that has
the moist territory that would be covered at the border with mexico. and he s a republican congressman. and so we re starting to see big cracks in that republican coalition as a lot of the republican leaders increasingly want to distance themselves from what the trump administration is doing. and they re hearing from their constituents. we ll file briefs when we can and fight on the floor wherever we can. congressman jamie raskin, anna gallon of move on, thank you for joining us. that s all in for this evening, the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, thanks, my friend. thanks for staying home the next hour. this is one of those a-blocks that isn t going to sound like anything else in the news and it will sound like it comes out of nowhere but every once a n a while we do that in the show because i think there s something going on in the news that even though people aren t following i think might be important. so bear with me, this is going to seem like it s