to quote the caucus chairman, i would like to think people want to stand for the national anthem because they feel as though the country represents who they are. i don t know if folks remember when the nfl commissioner originally put out a statement, a letter if you will, a couple months back. that statement came about and i have this on authority from, again, members of the executive office who i ve spoken with. that statement came about because he s battling two things, the owners and it s also the players. and that original statement came about because he wanted to keep the owners. you know, you have to at some point keep the owners at bay. i think what we ve seen in the last couple weeks and days actually is that it backfired and the nfl has now sided with the owners over the players. i ask you, what is the national football league without the players? the players have a decision to make. i think what we ll see in the
political drubbing of of the first order. the put everything they had into a bill to replace obamacare and couldn t do it. the leadership she goes onto say the president looks lost. i think that s a false assessment. we finally called all the entities together, caucus chairman, the different committee chairman, we brought everybody in one room and began to realize for the first time what was the difference and we began to iron those out to a place that we could get something that had the majority in the house to send to the senate. i would certainly encourage my colleagues on the senate side to continue to try and do the same. we don t believe that it s dead yet. we believe it s a pause on the senate side. the more the american people continue to demand that the senators fulfill the promise and take this incredible burden, listen, this is about 40 million people being added to the medicaid roles.
colleagues that he is challenging pelosi. he writes, under our current leadersh leadership, democrats have been reduced to our smallest congressional majority since 1929. this should indicate to all of us that keeping our leadership team completely unchanged will simply lead to more disappointment in future elections. some democrats had been pushing for new york congressman joe crowley to run against pelosi, but this afternoon crowley says he will not do that, instead he s going to run for a different position, caucus chairman. pelosi is officially in the race for another term. she sent a letter to her colleagues last night saying she already has the support of more than two-third of the caucus. joining me now from capitol hill is rubien gallego. he was one of the leaders to delay these leadership elections until the end of the month. they re now being held on november 30. you wanted to delay this? nancy pelosi wanted to get this vote done, make her the leader
they have been saying the president doesn t have it within his hour. he said as recently as last week, he stretched his ability pretty far. has the president changed his mind? the president met with caucus chairman you are looking at jay carney giving an update on the airplane, speaking to reporters in the briefing room saying they are participating accurately in the search and tracking it. the white house are tracking and consuling with the partners on which to deploy in relations to the new search area, meaning the indian ocean. and before we went to the white house and jay carney was giving us an update, you are talking about the way points. it appears someone had plotted a course using the way points and we in. i give you another scenario.
i see it i get increasingly aware, as you watch this show develop over the last 18 years in different forms, i get increasingly aware there s all white people at the table. a sunday show, for example, you get a sense, there s something wrong with this picture. do republicans have that sensitivity? talmage is she mentioned rogers, the number four people what do they do? they hold conferences every week. they run the retreats. run the retreats? john boehner you re getting in deeper and deeper. they run the caucus meetings every week. she runs the caucus, decides which speakers come in. vice chair of the caucus, lynn jenkins, virginia fox what s a more important position, chairman and vice chairman of the caucus or speaker of the house or committee chair. any of the committees. caucus chairman trumps the committee chairmanship. i ve been both. i ve been in the leadership and i ve been a committee chair.