I wont sugar coat this, this is a disappointing day for us. Democrats are declaring victory. Today is a great day for our country. Its a victory. Tonight, senator Bernie Sanders on how it fell apart after seven years of promising repeal. Real change begins with immediately repealing and replacing the disaster known as obamacare. [ cheers and applause ] and where we go from here with Michael Moore. I think we have to let obamacare go its way for a while. And another escalation in the devin nunes debacle when all in starts right now. Nobody knew health care could be so complicated. Good evening from los angeles, im chris hayes. Obamacare is alive and trumpcare is dead. And the Republican Party with control of the white house and majorities in both the senate and House Of Representatives is reeling tonight after failing to
achieve what has been their single biggest goal for the past seven years and the numberone agenda item of Donald Trumps presidency. Minutes before it was due for a vote
Katy Tur hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Influence american voters, including a Covert Campaign to spread Divisive Political messages. That has raised questions about what the government is doing to stop them. As the Washington Post reports lawmakers and independent analysts say that Voting Systems are more secure against hackers thanks to action at the federal and state levels and that the russians have not targeted those systems to the degree they did in 2016, but russian efforts to manipulate u. S. Voters through misleading social media postings are likely to have grown nor sophisticated and harder to detect. There is not a sufficiently strong Government Strategy to combat Information Warfare against the u. S. Outside experts say. Joining me now nbc National Correspondent Peter Alexander at the white house, Nbc National Security and intelligence reporter ken dilanian, White House Bureau chief for the Washington Post, phil rucker, Nation
quote, let obamacare implode. the suit alleges the president s action violate article 2 of the constitution which requires presidents to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. joining me nbc news national political correspondent heidi presbla and john podhoritz, an msnbc contributor. heidi, you are reporting on what s happening with obamacare. give us the latest. well, there is a lawsuit that is now being filed in federal court, district court in maryland by four cities. the cities of columbia, baltimore, and chicago who say that the president s statements and his follow through on his statements to implode obamacare are causing them financial distress. why? because all of the things that you just cited, katy, add up. they add up for costs, for localities because the number of insured is increasing under
nationallize the health care industry. the democratic assurance that the focus on health care will go down to their credit in november is, i think, maybe a bit of wishful thinking. it may drive some democrats to it, to the extent that it s the focus. republicans may be willing to go to the polls to express their support for the end of the individual mandate, to express their support for trump s attack on obamacare. when you talk about the specific thing that the individual mandate does and the care that they are offered within their plan and you say that care will be taken away, and you take obamacare and the name out of it, a lot of those same people say, no, no, no, that is part of my plan. you can t take the name obamacare out of it because it s obama s health care plan. here is another thing to ask you more generally. there is an outrage machine that whenever the president tweets or the president says something inflammatory and the mueller investigation, paul manafort, eyes g
and there are those that would argue that because that s happening, what has resulted is an effective strategy among republicans to push a very conservative agenda. is it helping to have a president who always says, look over here. this is what elections are for, right? we had a liberal democratic president for eight years and he has been succeeded by a president governing and doing things as a conservative republican. the first two years of obama s presidency he passed a $1 trillion stimulus, he passed obamacare, he passed dodd-frank, he partially trump comes in, and that s with a democratic house and senate and trump comes in and does conservative things. this is the way it s supposed to be. what s different is mueller. what s different is the russia probe. what s different is the tweets, the fact that vit the vit rèal.