would bring both sides of the aisle together to get things done. if you re a member of the freedom caucus, you have to go back to your district. everybody says wait, we still have obamacare. you ve been promising me we re going to get rid of it for seven years, and let me get this straight. we got a $20 trillion national debt and you voted to raise the debt ceiling? i m just telling you right now, a lot of people think i ve gone moderate or squishy. i wouldn t make that vote unless i got a lot in return. if you re talking about long-term entitlement reform, i ll talk about raising the debt ceiling. i m not going to put 70% of the budget or cutting big bird or national institutes of health. if you want to talk about real spending restraint over the next 20 years, then talk to me. they re never going to do that. so how does a member of the freedom caucus go back to their
infrastructure and tax policy or another run at health care. i m duty-bound to ask you, if not mcconnell, then who? is it cornyn perhaps, and why stop there? is ryan s job safe as house speaker? you know, i actually think that ryan is more susceptible to this pressure from trump than mcconnell is. ryan has a really, really fractured group of republicans. we have seen the freedom caucus go after him. you have people who are rumbling and grumbling about the vote they had to take on health care only to see it fall apart in the senate, and it s really hard to to state exactly how much mcconnell is liked. yes, flake did take him to task in the book, and yes, there are few senators who question, you know, his approach, but he is so popular. i spoke with senators on their way out of town last week, and to a person, they spoke with great respect for mcconnell, and they may grumble and have
say nothing of if we want to see infrastructure and tax policy or another run at health care. i m duty-bound to ask you, if not mcconnell, then who? is it cornyn perhaps, and why stop there? is ryan s job safe as house speaker? you know, i actually think that ryan is more susceptible to this pressure from trump than mcconnell is. ryan has a really, really fractured group of republicans. we have seen the freedom caucus go after him. you have people who are rumbling and grumbling about the vote they had to take on health care only to see it fall apart in the senate, and it s really hard to to state exactly how much mcconnell is liked. yes, flake did take him to task in the book, and yes, there are few senators who question, you know, his approach, but he is so popular. i spoke with senators on their way out of town last week, and to a person, they spoke with great respect for mcconnell, and they may grumble and have internal family fights, but mcconnell is popular, and it s up to his
fractured group of republicans. we have seen the freedom caucus go after him. you have people who are rumbling and grumbling about the vote they had to take on health care only to see it fall apart in the senate, and it s really hard to to state exactly how much mcconnell is liked. yes, flake did take him to task in the book, and yes, there are few senators who question, you know, his approach, but he is so popular. i spoke with senators on their way out of town last week, and to a person, they spoke with great respect for mcconnell, and they may grumble and have internal family fights, but mcconnell is popular, and it s up to his fellow republicans whether or not he gets to keep that job, and as long as they like him, it doesn t matter what the president says. kelsey makes a good point. whose legacy has been hurt more with health care? trump or mcconnell? that s a really good question. i don t know. if you talk to people in the republican party, the voters,
god bless joe biden for saying i can disagree with a democrat and they re not the enemy, they re just the other side of this debate. that s powerful. i hope he jumps in the race and delivers that message. it will change the 2016 election. that said, joe s got to make up his mind, mike. he does. hopefully, his mind will be made up soon probably within the next two or three days we say again. that s just joe being joe. i m wondering you saying what you said about the other joe, joe, if he said that on the stump throughout the country, where would the freedom caucus go? look at the difficulties paul ryan is having with his own party. but, i got to say though, again, this is one more example of i mean, if i were sitting in the freedom caucus, if i had