health care bill after he went to a rose garden ceremony. after the bill passed the house, though it didn t pass the senate and wasn t going to become law, he called it heartless. so who knows what he s going to say later after the fact. i do think what you heard him say last week, saying he doesn t think steve bannon should go after certain senators, i think he probably will reaffirm his support for people like roger whitaker, deb fisher who are up with overwhelming support for the agenda. maybe he ll say something about jeff flake. i doubt he ll say anything nice about jeff flake. overall, it will be positive. it will be interesting, though, to see if he gets any clarity at all about the moore alexander health care deal they have cut, because yesterday senator mcconnell made it very clear he would only bring it to the floor if the president makes it clear he supports it, which the white house certainly has not done yet. i would be willing to bet that americans press him on how much
some controls in the system. we thought we would take a democratic idea and make it nicer, because democrats froze it s not apples to apples. all of a sudden we re cruel. it s not apples to apples. it didn t pass for a reason. the health care costs are the costs are too high, and they have to come down. you don t want to it s not about what i want. don t say what i want or don t want. you have to have a kefrization wi conversation with other lawmakers. a lot of conversation there about apples. making me hungry. president trump thank the mayor of san juan moments ago after describing the humanitarian crisis unfolding
to pass it in the house. in march, they put it up for a vote. it didn t pass. in april, they tried to bring it back, it didn t pass. then in may they brought it back and it did pass. what did you learn from that in. early on tlfrgs a tunnel of pressure during the february recess is when people were back in their districts. they were hearing from their constituents and they heard from people in the deep south, in deep blue districts, from all over, that they didn t want to see this health care bill go through. ultimately they rushed it through right at the end. they were able to get it through. not without pain. they barely did it with two votes. then we saw mitch mcconnell, he is smart. he saw what happened in the house. what did he was try to keep it in the dark. for the last several weeks, he s been cracking this bill in the dark. he knew if there was sunlight on it, people would see everything that was wrong. they would stand up and pressure their senators to oppose it. so what ha
maine that spent last week going to every single congressional district office that susan collins had. they only had five of the six covered. so one of the groups drove four hours to drive to the caribou office. they did a sit-in there. drove back the next four hours. then they went to their weekly indevisable meeting to do more. she announced she was against the bill. this is working because people are standing up. when we look at the short history, this phenomenal growth of the group that you ve been part of and you helped start as a staffer, the growth of your organization and the visibility of the protests is something that is remarkable and it is easy to track. your track record on the aca, however, was that i think that the work that you guys did slowed the republicans effort to pass it in the house. in march, they put it up for a vote. it didn t pass. in april, they tried to bring it back, it didn t pass.
to get it done. most want to go home and deal with constituents. this process has been flawed since the beginning. taub about obamacare. it didn t pass until christmas eve. it had a full year. it was debated on the floor for a month. it had over 100 hearings and included 150 amendments from republicans. that is vastly different than what we are seeing today. that s a major reason you are having a problem with the bill and lack of support from practically everyone. lynne, talk about the political calculation here. if the special election showed us anything, the president s declining poll numbers did not hurt these republicans. are they looking at their votes, especially on health care as what will give them their re-election chances. what we don t know is if in 2018 that president trump s ability to elect himself transfers to other candidates.