proposals were essentially ones that took a lot away from medicare, health care for poor people and set it aside to give tax breaks to rich people and you can t fix the health care system if that is where you start. if republicans could get a bit more back to the mitt romney position and put more ideas on the table there is a potential middle ground here but it would mean giving up on the idea of slashing medicaid to pay for tax cuts. garrett haik at the capital. nobody has said mooch or scaramucci in the last few hours, but that was on the agenda today, anthony scaramucci stealing the headlines today. we wrestled them back for a moment. but what happens tomorrow? there are two big issues, one the failure of the repeal-and-replace obamacare. i think when james comey was
point in deescalating politics on it and getting practical solutions. but i do think the point about the republican base is important to keep in mind. not the skinny bills, but the proposals were essentially ones that took a lot away from medicare, health care for poor people and set it aside to give tax breaks to rich people and you can t fix the health care system if that is where you start. if republicans could get a bit more back to the mitt romney position and put more ideas on the table there is a potential middle ground here but it would mean giving up on the idea of slashing medicaid to pay for tax cuts. garrett haik at the capital. nobody has said mooch or scaramucci in the last few hours, but that was on the agenda today, anthony scaramucci stealing the headlines today. we wrestled them back for a moment.
got the attention of the person telling the votes and put his thumb down for a no. that gave it to the democrats and that closed the discussion, mitch mcconnell saying that it s time to move on. that is how this night ended. this morning started. donald trump tweeting the three republicans and 48 democrats let the country down. my conversations this evening, there it is, three republicans and 48 democrats let the american people down as i said from the beginning let obamacare implode then deal. that is the first and last that we ve heard from donald trump on that. i have been with david jolly, former republican congressman ron clain, and garrett haik, as always, we ll stay on top of this story. gentlemen, thank you for joining us, we stayed up much later to complete this complete. my name is ali velshi, as i said all coverage on health care and
and i think that was the entire purpose, to let people hear him say that, to state it definitively and very firmly. it was a brief statement. we were hoping that he would get into a few more of the details that he shared in that 11-page written statement that he released earlier today. and, of course, you heard all of us try to shout questions. he decided not to answer any questions. again, he said he looks forward tomorrow to answering the questions of the house intelligence committee. i think this was aimed at being very direct and at the same time concise. that was part of the strategy. clearly he wanted to stay on message, wanted to be very firm. and yet not get into the nitty-gritty, which presumably he was pressed on earlier today, when he met with staff members of the senate intelligence committee, chris. kristen, thanks very much. let me go to capitol hill, if we still can go there. do we still have garrett haik there? so garrett, give us a preview of what we re expecting tom
collins are a no, and at least four others, you see them on the screen here, are undecided. garrett haik is back with me from capitol hill. garrett, the senate has the ability to lose three votes and have mike pence come in and break that. they don t have two at the moment and neither rand paul or susan collins seem like there s much that can happen with this bill in particular that can get them on side. so what s going on with this bill. yeah, sure. those two nos have been pretty hard noest. he s been on capitol hill every week meeting with senators. he s had a number of these senators who are on the fence to his house for dinner. and he s actually having the most meeting today with nevada s governor brian sand val who is incredibly popular in that state. getting him on board is key to getting dean heller on board who is the senator from nevada who is the next sort of hard no on