had to set measured expectations and trump didn t listen. the white house didn t listen. it was kind of there were signs throughout the entire process that mcconnell needed more time and he needed to work with his members and let the senate be the senate. the slow senate, the kind of the little break that is on the entire process, and trump didn t want to have that happen. sam, david letterman had a segment he called, is this a thing? and that s my question for you. is this really a thing that there is going to be a movement to displace the senate majority leader? i don t think so, but like you said, we have lived through 203 days of norms being broken, so who knows? usually i remember covering the 2009, 2010 obamacare fight, and i will say this, harry reed s office did not like each other, but it was always anonymous and it was all of a
that was trump who promised that, and mcconnell from the jump was telling people that this was going to take time, and he when he had that big press conference with speaker ryan back in january, when they were kicking off the whole year, they kept talking about how they needed to get through, you know, approing these nominees. they had to approve a supreme court justice, and there were things he wanted to do, and he had to set measured expectations and trump didn t listen. the white house didn t listen. it was kind of there were signs throughout the entire process that mcconnell needed more time and he needed to work with his members and let the senate be the senate. the slow senate, the kind of the little break that is on the entire process, and trump didn t want to have that happen. sam, david letterman had a segment he called, is this a thing? and that s my question for you. is this really a thing that there is going to be a movement to displace the senate majority leader?
that, and mcconnell from the jump was telling people that this was going to take time, and he when he had that big press conference with speaker ryan back in january, when they were kicking off the whole year, they kept talking about how they needed to get through, you know, approving these nominees. they had to approve a supreme court justice, and there were things he wanted to do, and he had to set measured expectations and trump didn t listen. the white house didn t listen. it was kind of there were signs throughout the entire process that mcconnell needed more time and he needed to work with his members and let the senate be the senate. the slow senate, the kind of the little break that is on the entire process, and trump didn t want to have that happen. sam, david letterman had a segment he called, is this a thing? and that s my question for you. is this really a thing that there is going to be a movement to displace the senate majority leader? i don t think so, but like
with our differences, but nonetheless, respectful of getting results. chris: with the defeat of repeal and replace this week in the senate, do you think that the republican effort to kill obamacare is dead? well, the american people have spoken. i think that what you saw was just an outpouring of stories of how the affordable care act affected their lives. so where do we go from here chris: but let me just say, you say the american people have spoken. they put republicans in charge of the house, republicans in charge of the senate, republican in the white house all running on repeal and replace. you could argue that they spoke and washington didn t listen. well, they no, i m talking about since the election, they had seen what the replace might be, and they had rejected that overwhelmingly. people see what it means in their lives. i think it s really important for us to recognize the facts here, that what the republicans were putting forth put 17, 20,
with him. with our differences, but nonetheless, respectful of getting results. chris: with the defeat of repeal and replace this week in the senate, do you think that the republican effort to kill obamacare is dead? well, the american people have spoken. i think that what you saw was just an outpouring of stories of how the affordable care act affected their lives. so where do we go from here chris: but let me just say, you say the american people have spoken. they put republicans in charge of the house, republicans in charge of the senate, republican in the white house all running on repeal and replace. you could argue that they spoke and washington didn t listen. well, they no, i m talking about since the election, they had seen what the replace might be, and they had rejected that overwhelmingly. people see what it means in their lives. i think it s really important for us to recognize the facts here, that what the republicans were putting forth put 17, 20,