consistent with past scenarios that generated a mid-term wave. he joins me now. david, there are 23 republicans sitting in districts won by hillary, and 14 of them voted for this. they re the most vulnerable, right? that s correct. including 7 in california alone. these are the types of districts that democrats need to win back if they have any chance of winning the house, and they re not sufficient on their own, they ll need to go into trump territory to actually flip control of the house. but if you have a democratic base that s really fired up and a republican base that is less fired up, the reverse of what we saw in 2010, then it could happen. you also noted in your piece that democrats run a risk. i thought this was fascinating. they run a risk in some parts of the country if they start calling it trump care because that could actually make it more popular. that s right. because some of the least popular provisions of the republican health care bill are less popular than tru
casserman joins me now. david, there are 23 republicans sitting in districts won by hillary, and 14 of them voted for this. they re the most vulnerable, right? that s correct. including seven in california alone. these are the types of districts that democrats need to win back if they have any chance of winning the house, and they re not sufficient on their own, they ll need to go into trump territory to actually flip control of the house. but if you have a democratic base that s really fired up and a republican base that is less fired up, the reverse of what we saw in 2010, then it could happen. you also noted in your piece that democrats run a risk. i thought this was fascinating. they run a risk in some parts of the country if they start calling it trump care because that could actually make it more popular. that s right. because some of the least popular provisions of the republican health care bill are less popular than trump. trump is at about 40% approval right now.
their side and if they are not going to rebrand it and move forward and call it trump care and move on to a different topic, they re setting themselves up for a big defeat. all right, guys. go ahead. i was going to say we shouldn t lose sight of the fact that republicans are it is true they are closer now than ever before to repealing and replacing obamacare. you know, the house, the senate and the white house all controlled by the gop and i think we shouldn t underestimate how difficult it is for lawmakers to, one, buck the president and, two, buck the promise they had made for close to ten years. we will see. paul ryan, house republicans behind closed doors right now. we will see what they say. are they close tore the votes or not. guys, thanks very much. we are minutes away from the opening bell on wall street. president trump saying he s considering breaking up the big banks. wall street, though, maybe not buying it. let s see cnn chief money correspondent and star,
it is possible that you could have a bipartisan deal at some point. i don t think democrats are going to come running into the arms of this president as he suggested yesterday. let s pick up on that. at the same time, you have the president blaming democrats. he told them he was open to the idea of working together on healthcare in the future. can you see other democrats taking him up on that offer? potentially you might see it in the sense that you would have a technical fix. the way the bill was passed, democrats have acknowledged this, it s going to need a fix, need some changes. and as john was saying, there are problems with the way the program has been enacted. so down the road potentially democrats might be open to doing some sort of legislative fix in other words to improve the bill. what they ve never been open to repealing and replacing it trump care with the way president trump and paul ryan had envisioned. now that process is dead, if
deal in pulling this together has been to make mick mulvaney the point person on this and he s been busy with the budget and on obamacare or excuse me, the new version of the repeal and replace of obamacare. some are calling it as a.b. said ryan care or some calling it trump care. mick mulvaney was brought in to shepherd this and one of the founding members of the freedom caucus and very conservative. what difference do you think it s made on the president s push on capitol hill to have director mulvaney working so hard on this? well, first to the question of nomenclature it s trump care now. this is it. he s selling it. there s no distance. this is not an arm s length affair. this is his bill. it s probably not the bill paul ryan or mick mulvaney would have come up with if they were drafting a conservative