filibustered. if neil gorsuch was the first to be filibustered, what happened to merrick garland s vote? [ cheers and applause ] i think merrick garland was a great man and a good judge. but what happened in the senate last year, you may not have liked it, but it was not without precedent. in fact [ audience booing ] [ audience chanting shame on you ] i apologize. my eyes aren t as good as they used to be. but as i stand here and look at you, it looks like you re smiling an awful lot. and i hope that that smile i hope behind that smile, that you re doing some serious soul searching listening to these people here tonight. as a fiscal conservative, what is your position on all the weekend trips the president makes down to mar-a-lago?
organizer. i don t think anybody else in this room is. i don t think anybody is here because they re paid. people are here because they re concerned. and i m glad you re here. well, the majority of constituents that i speak with support a single payer system. my question is will you represent the people of arizona and support single payer, or are you going to continue to represent the health insurance industry? [ cheers and applause ] i will continue to support, as much as i can, our free market system of health care. [ audience booing ] i m not in favor of single payer. neil gorsuchs with the first supreme court justice ever to be filibustered. if neil gorsuch was the first to be filibustered, what happened to merrick garland s vote? [ cheers and applause ] i think merrick garland was a great man and a good judge. but what happened in the senate last year, you may not have
money going to any organization that does abortions. [ audience booing ] i don t believe the federal government should have a role in providing health care for everybody. [ audience booing ] i stand with the second amendment. my job is to defend the second amendment. [ audience booing ] joining me now, msnbc contributor who has recently traveled toeveral red states and discussed ideas about resifltance and reconciliation. i was thinking about you because a lot of what we re seeing, whether it s in this kansas district, the georgia district, or even those town halls, those are hard core republican districts this stuff is happening in. it s a reminder that it s a big enough country that when you ve got hundreds of thousands of people in a place, a congressional district, there s going to be some critical mass of people even if they re not the majority, who don t support theme the president. that s true. i think for someone like me, frankly, who finds this
activists who are pouring money and energy into anti-trump causes wherever they can find them. town hall crowds are still vocal in support of the affordable care act act and a range of issues as congressman ted yoho of florida discovered at his town hall meeting in gainesville. i am not going to support planned parenthood. [ ence booing ] fight s n with planned parenthood. my fight is with no taxpayers money going to any organization that does abortions. [ audience booing ] i don t believe the federal government should have a role in providing health care for everybody. [ audience booing ] i stand with the second amendment. my job is to defend the second amendment. [ audience booing ] joining me now, msnbc contributor who has recently traveled to several red states and discussed ideas about resifltance and reconciliation.
republican congressman joe wilson got an earful from constituents at a town hall in aikens, south carolina, last night. we have a new president who is making a positive difference. [ audience booing ] we need to replace obamacare so that [ audience booing ] obamacare is denying services, delaying services. [ audience booing ] [ audience chanting you lie ] it s not just town hall meetings getting flooded by outraged voters. the wall street journal described a surging wave of