health care process. you know, three either have to change the message here or change the policy. because having a fight we are constantly trying to mislead the public is not was not effective in obamacare and probably will not be effect i have her ha havei ha haveive here. the republican leadership will say, at key moments they felt undermined by either the president or his team. up next, alabama sends a message to the republican establishment and to the presidents of the united states.
reform plan coming together. do you think some democrats can get behind it? absolutely. this is an example of an area where, right from the election, there were many democrats saying we would like to find a way to work across the aisle, to work with president trump. there are a number of other areas like infrastructure where we had early hopes we might be able to work together. but if we look back at the health care process and outcome, that s got some important warnings here. we should be listening to senator john mccain who says the only way to do very hard, very complex things here in the senate is in an open process, not by having five or six people craft a complex plan in secret and then roll it out and try and pass it with only one party s vote. if the health care process had been open and robust and bipartisan for the last seven months, i think we would be making progress. and given that the tax plan that s being rolled out today was crafted largely in secret and with no democ
would be almost unattainable, it is aggravating. inappropriate for him to talk about this? it is his signature legacy. yeah, i have no problem with praumt weighing in on this debate. but i grew he with him this health care process is aggravating. and one thing i do see recognition from democrats is obamacare does have problems. what i don t see areny fixes coming from them. instead the problems contained in obamacare, they just seem to want to use as leverage to get medicare for all. so we are at this blocking point where people can t come up with good practical solutions. and what republicans are doing with this latest fix is saying let s find this way to make it not our problem. that s what this whole block grant program is designed to do. just get it stout of washington. and that s why no one knows what they are going to get. because we don t know what states are going to do for their own citizens, which is good theoretically from a federalist perspective, but if you are on a
that s measured and calibrated and working with congress is extraordinarily difficult even when working with a majority of your party that holds both chambers. it s actually incredible that mitch mcconnell got 39 votes for that pathetic skinny repeal that night that could have boomerang to against all of the people who voted yes for it. i m not giving mitch mcconnell a complete past, but shaming him on twitter about the filibuster and other things, there is no consensus for a waste of time and it gets in the way. they re really looking at tax reform and hoping they can do this separately from the president, that he won t colette mean, that he won t go out and get in the way of their progress because they really know that they desperately, urgently have to have a win. they thought his performance on the health care process was not constructive. they are not a team right now, they have to get together as one and as soon as possible. jon: newt gingrich seems to
do they need him as much now as it looks like obamacare is in limbo. during the whole health care process, one day it was a great bill, the next day it was too mean. it was very difficult to follow his lead. normally a president is leading the charge and coordinating the campaign to get a massive piece of legislation like that. in that particular case, trump was oftentimes m.i.a. and left it to mcconnell and mcconnell didn t know a lot of times where he stood. at the same time, the president is endorsing luther strange in the alabama race and that s a guy that senator mcconnell stands behind. senator luther strange has done a great job. he has my complete and total endorsement. mo brooks is the other guy. mold brooks is the one who agrees with donald trump of