say nothing of if we want to see infrastructure and tax policy or another run at health care. i m duty-bound to ask you, if not mcconnell, then who? is it cornyn perhaps, and why stop there? is ryan s job safe as house speaker? you know, i actually think that ryan is more susceptible to this pressure from trump than mcconnell is. ryan has a really, really fractured group of republicans. we have seen the freedom caucus go after him. you have people who are rumbling and grumbling about the vote they had to take on health care only to see it fall apart in the senate, and it s really hard to to state exactly how much mcconnell is liked. yes, flake did take him to task in the book, and yes, there are few senators who question, you know, his approach, but he is so popular. i spoke with senators on their way out of town last week, and to a person, they spoke with great respect for mcconnell, and they may grumble and have internal family fights, but mcconnell is popular, and it s up to his
sudden at the aide level, and the principals don t do this, and come out and say things like trump is saying to mcconnell, but it has been brewing. it s not just health care. expectations are there, and the russian sanctions bill. trump did not want it. senate just passed it, gave it to him. you can increasingly see for jeff flake writing a book, admonishing not just trump, but leadership for not standing up to trump, and fissures are breaking and they are threatening to erupt in public view. kelsey, i need not remind you because it s your beat. when they come back, they will need a budget. they will need a debt ceiling. say nothing of if we want to see infrastructure and tax policy or another run at health care. i m duty-bound to ask you, if not mcconnell, then who? is it cornyn perhaps, and why stop there? is ryan s job safe as house speaker? you know, i actually think that ryan is more susceptible to this pressure from trump than mcconnell is. ryan has a really, really
i don t know how to come at this. this is uncharted territory, and that s a phrase we have used for the last three nights at least. sean hannity and the folks at fox seldom say anything on a whim or by accident, so that really got my attention calling on the majority leader of the u.s. senate, same party as the president, to resign. yeah. that was absolutely shocking. i think the thing to remember here though, is that mcconnell never promised that this was going to be easy or that this was going to be fast. that was trump who promised that, and mcconnell from the jump was telling people that this was going to take time, and he when he had that big press conference with speaker ryan back in january, when they were kicking off the whole year, they kept talking about how they needed to get through, you know, approving these nominees. they had to approve a supreme court justice, and there were things he wanted to do, and he
that was trump who promised that, and mcconnell from the jump was telling people that this was going to take time, and he when he had that big press conference with speaker ryan back in january, when they were kicking off the whole year, they kept talking about how they needed to get through, you know, approing these nominees. they had to approve a supreme court justice, and there were things he wanted to do, and he had to set measured expectations and trump didn t listen. the white house didn t listen. it was kind of there were signs throughout the entire process that mcconnell needed more time and he needed to work with his members and let the senate be the senate. the slow senate, the kind of the little break that is on the entire process, and trump didn t want to have that happen. sam, david letterman had a segment he called, is this a thing? and that s my question for you. is this really a thing that there is going to be a movement to displace the senate majority leader?
that, and mcconnell from the jump was telling people that this was going to take time, and he when he had that big press conference with speaker ryan back in january, when they were kicking off the whole year, they kept talking about how they needed to get through, you know, approving these nominees. they had to approve a supreme court justice, and there were things he wanted to do, and he had to set measured expectations and trump didn t listen. the white house didn t listen. it was kind of there were signs throughout the entire process that mcconnell needed more time and he needed to work with his members and let the senate be the senate. the slow senate, the kind of the little break that is on the entire process, and trump didn t want to have that happen. sam, david letterman had a segment he called, is this a thing? and that s my question for you. is this really a thing that there is going to be a movement to displace the senate majority leader? i don t think so, but like