this afternoon in an impromptu rose garden news conference at which he embraced mitch mcconnell and a late morning cabinet meeting which he praised but also tried to gently dissuade his former strategist, steve bannon, from waging all-out war against mcconnell and the republican party. we have a very good relationship, as you know, with steve bannon. steve s been a friend of mine for a long time. i like steve a lot. steve is doing what steve thinks is the right thing. some of the people that he may be looking at, i m going to see if we talk him out of that because, frankly, they re great people. a lot of great people. steve bannon, great guy. so is mitch mcconnell john mccain tonight, not so much in terms of how the president sees him. he threw the spotlight on the philosophical and operational divide in the gop, john mccain did. and in a gentler, less direct way so did the president. back now with the panel. jason, you were saying john mccain is part of the swamp. is anybody who h
actually have legislative language, the cbo is just guessing based on reports. we don t actually have the hard numbers. that s the standard state of affairs. regardless of where you stand on the ideological spectrum, that s the thing that irritates people about washington, the idea you re going to be dealing with a sixth of the economy and nobody knows at this point, you re going to vote tomorrow but nobody knows at this point what the language is? how is it even possible? this concept of like, you were referring to, trying to rebrand things to euphemism, it s like trying to rebrand neo-nazis as alt-right. no. neo-nazis, no. taking away insurance from 16 million people. that s what it is. stop trying to make it feel like it s nicer, kinder, gentler. it s not. it may be skinny to somebody, but to somebody who needs help, it s not skinny. here is what republicans hate. they hate the taxes. they hate the individual mandate. they hate the premium spikes. they hate the lies that this bi
chief strategist, was not supportive of this. and sean spicer was so opposed to it that we saw him resign today. this was really the president s decision in many ways over very serious objections from people in the white house. it s worth pointing out, anderson, that now in this role, anthony scaramucci does not report to reince priebus. he reports directly to the president. the briefing room seemed a little less combative with scaramucci at the podium. do you expect it will last? obviously he will not be at the podium every day. i think he had a commanding presence while he was there, but it will be sarah huckabee sanders back. that s right. it was a different vibe with him. he brought his new york swagger. he seemed at ease when taking questions from reporters, and he was sort of gentler in paring those responses. there were no cries of fake news and that kind of thing. it will be fascinating to see if it changes the tone from the top on. sean spicer set the tone the first time h
something akin to that. that s what he always said. everyone needs to be covered. do we have any sense of whether or not the senate plan is kinder and gentler? let s start with this. the senators who are working on this have been trying to do this without the white house because they know where this sweet spot is with the moderates and conservatives and chamber and they know how to get to the vote. if you remove the mandate and taxes, mr. president trump, you will have everyone covered and getting coverage they can afford. that is the crux of the argument. for him to come in this late hour and try to tell the senate they need to make it boost subsidy or provide more of a safety net is not something that s likely going to help them get to 50 votes with pence breaking the tie by the july 4th
this, they hear the things they like and they pick out pieces they love. they are going to love rolling back regulations, tax form ideas. they re going to love that obamacare is going away. they will hear that your here s the huge question for donald trump. at 42020, how do you expand the base? bob: let me ask you a question. do you think trump could take an opportunity to be kinder and gentler? meghan: i hope, everyone has been telling us it s going to be optimistic so i hope so. regarding immigration and the possibility of going down a gang of eight routes, the one thing i ve learned about donald trump is even of his ideology is close to mine, when i say it, people react one way but when he says that, he has the capacity and ability to sell ideas in a way that people like me frankly couldn t do a different part of the public. as dana said, maybe ideology is dead and it s just about the messenger and the way donald trump will sell it to the