less harmed and perhaps get to more repeal. that s their job and that s the issue here. abby: tammy a lot of people get their politics from late-night television and this past week jimmy kimmel has been peek speaking out on the healthcare bill and turned out he got many of the talking points from chuck schumer. the question is for months now. that s one side of it as far as we know, he has not asked the other side cassidy or graham for their perspective or their thoughts on where they are coming from on this bill. yeah. look, the world is that he has been coached and has been for months. he made up his mind he wanted to kill this monstrous thing. here is the problem. then you have a preconceived point of view. then you go look for the information that will support that. pete: correct. very different than going to look for the facts of the matter. whether you are an audience of a late night comedy show or fox & friends news program at night, people want the facts of the matter. an
mike emanuel on capitol hill with what is happening here. what is this all about? neil, essentially lawmakers are looking to see if they can take a last swipe to pass this healthcare reform bill by the end of the fiscal year. time is running short in this fiscal year and in the end of this calendar year. when you look at september, they have a couple of must-pass items to get done. children health insurance. when you consider the jewish holidays, time is returning short before you get to september 29th. in october, lawmakers are expected to do a budget. they need to do that to get another huge priority, tax reform done with the 50-vote threshold in the united states senate. expect tax reform to eat a lot of time. when you mix in thanksgiving and november and christmas in december, limited time to get everything done. lawmakers need to do another deal to fund the government
the anti-immigrant restriction is right went insane! ballistic! donald trump is done, see things that he s finished his base has collapsed, i think these are the people who are actually out there on thin ice. donald trump is doing these deals for one reason i would say. and that was the failure of the healthcare reform bill. to help their reform bill if eldon house because the freedom caucus opposed it and would not let it go through. many members of the freedom caucus are anti-immigrant restriction is. these are the people i think for suddenly isolated by donald trump. whether there is a grand plan or not, i don t know. but if he succeeds in the country in doing a deal on the dreamers, i think their base is the one that is in trouble. i think that dan is right about donald trump looking at the failure in healthcare saying i cannot trust the republicans here. so if i can t do alone, what alternative do i have? i have to see if there is another way to get things done.
getting john mccain back on board with our healthcare reform bill, i think it s still possible. here s the thing. i don t think it s over though, sean. i would not say that repealing and replacing obamacare before september is off the table you know what i didn t hear this week except for isn t that right ted cruz but i didn t hear about healthcare cooperatives, healthcare savings accounts. these are fundamental principles i ve been talking about on air and you ve been discussing for 15, 20 years, and they weren t even in the bill. well, they were in the original bill. but as they kept peeling things off of the bill, it became
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