Leaders in congress, are to pretend didnt happen. Is that just Mitch Mcconnells nature . What has to happen for something to get done . Tell me what you saw when you watched the Press Conference today. Reporter well, Mitch Mcconnell knows when youre the leader, a party in the senate, youll take shots. Thats part of the job, a guy who takes incoming fire and allows your caucus to get things done. The two men appearing sidebyside today was politically smart or at least acknowledgement of political reality. Their goals in most cases are the same and desperately need each other to get any of them done. On tax reform, they cannot have the same problems they had on health care. If theyre sniping back and forth at each other day after day its gawk to be that much more difficult to get done. You heard some of that today. The president praising Mitch Mcconnell. Saying hes the guy to get it done on all of these issues and put a bunch of additional issues on Mitch Mcconnells plate now
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do something and then fails. in the british parliamentary system. you resign. reporter: you resign. if it s a budgetary matter. reporter: right. mitch mcconnell said he would pass obamacare. didn t do it. the country s fate doesn t rest on the pennell political career of mitch mcconnell, and i think this is principle i ve applied in other cases as well. said john boehner should resign when the house, his own caucus rejected his plan. when you lose in that setting and can t unify your party behind you you need to let somebody else lead that appeared. steve bannon is coming at this situation as a non-politician. he s not an elected official. but what he s doing isn t so unusual in the sense that there are campaigns to provide alternative leadership for parties that fail to deliver on their promises to their voters. what do you make of what mcconnell said standing next to trump when he said, we have to nominate people who can win. who can win, because so that