with congenital heart disease like my son there was a chance you could never get health insurance because of the pre-existing condition. if your baby is going to die and it doesn t have to it shouldn t matter how much money you make. that s something whether you are a republican or a democrat or something else we all agree on that, right? [ applause ] charlie sykes, that s such a powerful testament on the question of pre-existing conditions. it is. this is a reminder that health care is an issue unlike other issues. not like the bond market, not like interest rates or the deficit which is cerebral and policy-oriented. this is a gut check. this is an emotional issue. that s a shot across the bow of the republicans messing with this. the problem with the health care is not necessarily just internal. it s that what they are trying to do isn t popular.
but i m just telling you, there will be a payment, it will be in a form, perhaps a complicated form, and you have to understand, what i m doing is good for the united states. it s also going to be good for mexico. all right. to talk through all of this, i have congressman from both sides of the aisle, chris collins from new york, and from arizona. chris collins, excuse me, republican retreat in philadelphia. he s also the congressional l liaison for the trump transaction team and now the trump presidency. actually, i wanted to start with you with the sort of a more basic question on this. i know this is something this theme donald trump struck in the campaign about building this wall was something democrats didn t like, something his opponents didn t like, but he did campaign on it. he did win the election. he did win your home state, arizona. is it something now where you look around and say, i m going to work with him on construction of this? absolutely not. and this isn t popula
and getting lots of tv time. robert martin, i honestly do not believe i didn t say city has a shot. he doesn t have much to run on and isn t popular in his own state. val says when he hugged obama that was it for me. surprising how many people when you talk to conservative activists around the country bring up that embrace of obama as sort of a deal-closer. after hurricane sandy. and the closing days of the 2012 presidential election. i thought the speech was a good speech. you saw i think in it the strengths of chris christie he is able to speak exten rampously. he can make a case. i would agree with julie on the substantive problem and add one thing. he says he is going to tell us the hard truth. is he going to be the candidate who tell us what we need to here particularly on entitlements. if you look what chris christie did he accepted the expansion of medicaid under obamacare he did that having said earlier at the speech at the american enterprise institute if we don t reform
candidates. they don t have to do that much media anymore, don t have to answer that many questions. they tweet, have supporters tweet things out. and if we complain about it who cares, basically the president isn t popular? right. people don t care because the president isn t popular. as long as they re going out and talking to voters and taking voters questions, i think the people are basically satisfied with that. do you agree? i do. and by the way, the voters questions to jeb are tough. i ve seen them take questions about immigration where a lot of the base doesn t agree with them about thing like common core. and he doesn t back away from it. and he will aggressively answer those questions and bring them up himself. another question that came up with megan kelly has to do with the iraq war. and jeb bush said, well clearly, some version of mistakes were made. yeah. then he said you know, we ll make the mistakes george w. bush. do you think the press will continue
with a lot of libertarian voters. nia-malika, what do you think? i think these races in the south, maybe they re going to try there if they look at mississippi, that example there tells them that this isn t popular in states like georgia and louisiana, and those races feature women who are running against men. i think in those races, it might come into play as well. and for women, a lot of people are watching the wendy davis race and wondering why women s issues isn t an issue in texas, but why her race hasn t picked up more traction when it comes to issues salient to abortion and women s health. it s a pretty republican state and she s had some stumbles in her campaign, but campaigns take a long time. we should remember at this point, it s a long day until election day. but in the senate races, nia-malika, you think this actually could play a part? i do think so. and i think she s right about the davis race. they had a whole revamp of that campaign. a lot of new folks in t