they don t pass this. the other thing is all of these individual republicans in washington trying to prove that it s not their fault personally that this didn t happen. so mitch mcconnell has to show he tried as hard as he could. so he has to i think they may vote on this thing, even though they know it s going to fail, because mitch doesn t want to be blamed, he wants the blame to lie with whoever votes no. there s a certain kabuki aspect of it there. i m not sure now that they re not getting this done, i don t think they re going to repeal it in this congress. but i don t think it s done at september 30th either. this deadline is artificial. this year the budget the fiscal year for the government will end in eight days and the budget instructions they have for this year wa set up and you can t use this after september 30th. but they can write new instructions next year and the plan had been tax reform. orrin hatch, the senator from utah, raced the prospect, write the instructio
this is politically a horrible idea. it s a good way to kill tax reform by tying to it obamacare repeal. yes. but i think once we get to october 1st, people will forget there was a deadline and basically say, you promised, you have to try again, let s try doing it in next year s budget. i think the story may be with us another year with these periodic, episodic efforts to repeal. you get closer to the election, the politics of actually doing it just get worse and worse. michelle, speaking of the election. i am particularly obsessed with dean heller, the nevada senator, who is the only republican up for election senator in a state hillary clinton won. he s in a precarious position. and, you know, here he is standing next to the governor in a state just a few months ago basically initially opposing the last version of the senate bill because of medicaid cuts. take a listen. i want to protect medicaid expansion states, and i want to make sure that the work that this governor did c
the senate ahouse and and presidency, it will be a problem to get the base to support them when the base matters so much. and dealing with that, here, don, just the political argument that democrats could take on is one of the wins, if you will, in the middle, that democrats can take here as to work first of all with the republicans and part of that is just on the private side, right, the private insurance side which clearly has some opportunities to be improved. that democrats have been asking to work with the republicans on fixing the problems and the affordable care act. but it cannot come at the cost of huge tax cuts for the wealthy which is the at heart of the bill and it means attacking medicaid. and so that is the line that democrats will draw. do not touch medicaid. and it is not just democrats. it is con stitstituents that ha been saying hands off my medicaid and that is the republican problem that they did not anticipate when they, for
communication strategy and outside legal team but at the end of the day you still have a president trump who will regularly and without thinking twice about it under cut his own senior staff and white house messaging, whether on twitter or in interviews with the new york times or washington post or on tv. so this is a white house that at the senior ranks does understand that the president could call in as many reinforcements as we wanted but at the end of the day, trump is going to be trump. thank you so much. thank you both very much. have a good saturday. thanks. thank you. what is next, the health care battle. yes, that is still happening. the republicans again suffering a major setback in the quest to repeal and replace obamacare. but that doesn t mean the fight is over. what republicans plan to do next. the opioid my doctor prescribed
terry mcauliffe and a long time confidant of the clinton family. he said the president replied that he would love to hear ideas from him. another state worth watching is texas as the new yorker magazine reported this month. texas has the highest rate of uninsured people in the country and it is home to one fifth of america s uninsured children. texas democratic congressman mark feesy joining us now. thank you for coming into house here today at 30 rock. tell us about your district. you heard some of the reflections, some of the stata coming out of the texas but your district is special. absolutely. i get this very well. i have the highest uninsured rate out of any congressional district in the entire country according to the 2010 census. and so this issue about what is going to happen to the affordable care act is of particular interest to me. particularly when you look in the dallas area. there is so many people that don t have insurance. i have a very large undocumented