couldn t know tied behind any one plan. is he going to have to come up with a narrative everybody can get behind. one of the problems the administration and the republicans in the house and congress have had is that they have had noster. trying to sell healthcare look, obamacare is a disaster. that s not going to get people behind it he understands the importance of selling and marketing. he has obviously created a very successful business. he has written books. he has been behind, you know, he has been on this side of the television as well. so i think he understands what it s going to take to tell the story to get people to move things forward. and i think he is the right guy to come back and say let s get tax reform done. pete: and build a proactive offensive strategy to do so. not playing defense against cbo scores like often happen on the healthcare side. can he come out swinging and do so with grace. i think this is a really smart and interesting move by the president. pete: gr
been accusations on both sides, summer accusing democrats for the rhetoric but isn t there plenty of blame to go around on both sides of the aisle? maybe that depends on what the season is. it seems like on january 20 it has been a jihad against republicans. to i want to go down this path, not really but we have to acknowledge that those that are holding up president trumps had been a joke there s extreme things going on that i have never seen people on my side doing. disable back seven years ago they re doing stuff, i don t remember it with the anger like that. on one level you will have a fringe group on the healthcare side of everything that tries to commit and join a more mainstream group. those are the ones that generally get the camera action.
msnbc national reporter and from the new york times, and back with us the chairman himself michael steele. it was not a political speech in the main. i m going to play a little more sound from it where the president really did reach out. he does want people to move on. but i want to begin with a political point, which is how many times do republicans have to lose on this issue at the ballot box, at the court before they realize that the way they prosecuted this case is a loser. well i think we got two or three more losses in it. we ve got a little bit more to go here on this. why? this does not can we just all get this out of our system and understand. this does not end until there is a republican congress a republican senate and a republican president at which point they do not repeal obamacare. why? because you will have more and more americans in play on the healthcare side. so the pressure is going to mount from this point forward to actually fix the system and
department doles out disability benefits and they treat veterans. health care for veterans. the scandal we ve known about was on the health care side. wait lists and veterans not getting treatment and veterans dying and the department had admitted to those problems. this is the other side. just as much if not more money going to veterans disability payments and we knew they had a giant backlog. what s amazing about this is when they tried to get rid of that backlog, they cooked the books. what they were accused of doing on the healthcare side. like th gives you two choices. you can have the books cooked or have a backlog. we re unable to get both taken care of at the same time. i want you to listen to one of the whistle-blowers and her startling claim. i saw boxes with my own eyes and what was in my boxes and a lot of that stuff should not have been shredded. the va told me because i didn t see the shredding happening, that it wasn t shredded.
this is not just the healthcare side of it. this is also you re seeing it in op-ed where folks say this might be the end of the progress receive progress progressivism circumstance whether it s union rules or environmental and global warming policy, all of these things this administration has said are so important to it are now deeply at risk, and that lends itself to a large degree of economic vitality and excitement and that is what has been missing from this market. david, i got to say, there s something not you, but along this swarmy worms you might talk to they resent it when we do anything big government-wise, for, let s say, healthcare initiative. they re fine when it s the federal reserve providing 85 bill bucks a month for them to keep this party going.