this is sort of third-world stuff, when the two political parties can t agree that supreme court nominees have to be somewhere near the center to get them approved now. i think what he s doing is trumpian negotiating, where as donald trump has often done is you take the hardest line then, you know, but why would chuck schumer, you know, compromise now? ask all three of you, will we have nine people on the supreme court at the end of this year? yes, because the red state democrats are going to vote with trump on this one, yes. red state democrats. i agree with that. okay. you guys are ahead of me on this one. maybe by the nuclear option. democrats feel that their seatses are in jeopardy if they don t go along with the president s proposal. or republicans will change the rule or get rid of filibuster for supreme court. do you believe it or not? don t play games here. one way or another no, no, do you believe that will happen? i think there will be nine justi
for trump may consider themselves a wild and woolly conservative but need all these programs. republicans like talking about national security, like talking about tax reform. crime is a favorite. crime. right. they passed a medicare drug bill in 2003. overall, though, democrats think we can turn the tables on them, but, and that s where the issue is going to come on the timeline, when does the repeal take place? two years, three youears, four years? i see. the conservatives want it identi ve heard four years. they don t want they want the political credit for axing it but not having it gone. tamara, what wins this battle? a year from now will we have obamacare or trumpcare? democrats hope it s re-branded as trumpcare. i think we for a while are going to relitigate the same fight i can only hear the word, relitigate, one time a night here. amy klobuchar.
what s coming. and back to that big fight of president obama s signature achievement, obamacare. republicans want to tear down obamacare. eliminate it, kill it in its crib. they don t have much of a plan beyond that. they re going to leave us with nothing. obama, himself, by the way, is now leading the fight to save what he built. finally, let me finish with trump watch tonight. this is hardball. the place for politics. discover card. customer service! ma am. this isn t a computer. wait. you re real? with discover card, you can talk to a real person in the u.s., like me, anytime. wow. this is a recording.
is personal. now, the republicans say repeal and replace. the only thing that has going for it is alliteration. they have no replacement plan. donald trump said he will not cut social security, he will not cut medicare, he will not cut medicaid. donald trump has got to come forward, maybe through tweets, one of his tweets, and say, clearly, that donald trump will veto any legislation that cuts medicare, that cuts medicaid, or that cuts social security. anyway, let s bring in the hardball roundtable. bob cusack, editor in chief of the hill newspaper. tamara keith, npr s white house correspondent. and a reporter with bloomberg. let s get going on this. let me go to the former president current, he s not former yet. don t rescue them. don t give them a helping hand
replacement. six months. but then potentially, you know, that s just saying what they would do. actually passing that legislation could take much longer and if democrats don t help it could take an eternity. tamara, that s a lot of worry time for older people. various pieces of legislation and various blueprints but nothing with unified support in the party. do they have 218 votes for any of this stuff? nowhere close to 218 votes. i d be surprised if they had a fifth of that. you have disagreements within house republic cabs, disagreements between house republicans and senate republicans. committees disagree on the stuff. they ve had six years. the reasons republicans have not come up with a replacement with unified party support, doing so without conservative principles, without the rules, subsidies, mean stripping coverage for a lot of people. bob, they do know, or do they not, they re playing on the democrats field. really good at defending social security, medicare,