crisis and did some very important things. but i think what disturbs him and what should disturb many is the impact of these decisions. i believe the president thinks that this is chum in the water, fulfilling his campaign promises for his base. i also believe that he is motivated by trying to obliterate the obama legacy. which is in part also chumming the water for his base. but also there s some other thing at play here that i don t have the qualifications to analyze. that clearly motivates him. because every time he talks about anything that president obama did, he talks about it in these very caustic terms, as if he s jealous or envious of the esteem with which obama left office. but the impact of the decisions that would worry obama. and what should worry everyone else. the walking back of the iran
thing is i think he has to work with democrats. i think it s a good ting when republicans and democrats work on legislation with that helps all americans. i think it s a good thing he has at least begun to have a conversation and a relationship with chuck chum u schumer and nancy pelosi. i think republicans have to ultimately take the message as well that they ve got to work with folks on the other side of the aisle to get things done for america. that itself a food thing. is it possibly all about the president s determination to erase all obama policies? he s even willing to work with democrats? i think it s interesting he is now willing to work with democrats after he failed numerous times to try to repeal obamacare using republican votes alone and i think that clearly he wants a win. clearly he s at a moment he is desperate. i do agree with joe, that s what elected officials are supposed to done. they are public servants, they are to go into government and solve problems for t
maggie hagerman joins us now, and so does van jones, kristen martin. you have detail on the president back from his speech in alabama on friday. what was he talking about? he was talking about how well it had gone. he hit on something that mattered. meaning the nfl speech? that to him was a key moment. i don t think it was a huge takeaway overall in the day. i think he was thinking about alabama. but he liked the reaction he got. he has a habit, not unfamiliar to him. he would do this in the campaign. he would throw out a piece of chum, and see how it played. this was well received. and it s something he ought to keep focusing on. he did some tweets. he talked about it at the white house dinner. there s a number of white house aides who would like to see him move on and focus on other issues. but as we know, he has a tendency to make things about himself. and people you talked to
another troubling discovery this week. former chum campaign chairman paul manafort was wiretapped by the federal government before and after the 2016 election. former director of national intelligence james clapper is now admitting the president trump himself may have been incidentally surveilled. here s the deal, tonight, we will break down these unbelievable new developments. of course the mainstream media refuses to cover them. and we will examine a two-tiered justice system in this country. needs to be exposed. it needs to be stopped. we are going to call out every single person and institution we need investigations. this is tonight it s very important constitutional opening monologue. over 70 years, the u.s. ambassador to the united nations have been the face of american diplomacy. under the obama administration, samantha power appears to have taken on a much different much more sinister role.
repeal and replace obamacare on their terms. did you add sort of more chum to the waters here by proposing an alternative that would be a version of repealing and replacing obamacare? no i think the immediate concern is the beat back these disastrous republican proposals that would throw millions and millions of people off of the health insurance that they have, raise premiums for older workers very substantially cut medicaid by hundreds of billions. that is the immediate concern. but chuck, there coombs a time when we have got to ask yourselves why are we, the united states of america, our great nation, the only major country on earth not to guarantee healthcare to all people as a right? second of all, why are we spending twice as much per capita on healthcare as any other major country, all of whom guarantee healthcare to all of