ossoff has come up short in his bid to flip the sixth congressional trip in georgia. the most expensive house race in american history and karen handel kept hhs tom price s former position red, and the first woman ever elected to congress from georgia. democrats were looking for signs of a national wave in this traditionally republican district but its outcome has been like the others before this year, close but not close enough, joe, and that s, i think fitting into possibly a pattern for democrats in their attempt to sort of find new leadership and press reset. they have to press reset. it s something seth moulton said, the congressman from massachusetts last night, the iraq war vet. they have to press reset. they need to stop looking backwards. they need to stop talking about 2016.
gain a majority again in the house or the senate. joe, jump in. i just democrats have to stop being scared. they re running scared. they re thinking we re going to get a candidate that s further left and further left and further left. even if you re in the center, can you have a strong economic message. you can go after it very aggressively. and by the way, i don t know many republican leaders, i don t know many republican financiers that doesn t believe democrats are still better than even have a better than even shot at taking over the house next year. so this certainly doesn t take away from that. by, mike barnicle, one of the ways that we could see a tsunami was coming barack obama as way in 2010 was talking to you every day about what was happening in massachusetts in the special election at about the same time in that period in 2009, a guy named scott brown. scott brown is a guy that got in his pickup truck and he drove
myself and to dominate. i guess mike lee is on the wrong subcommittee. in the end i don t think they re going to get rand paul so they can t lose anybody else. let me ask a question. both of you know the process. is the priority for mitch mcconnell right now to repeal obamacare, underline obama and the past president himself or is it to pass a bill that s going to help a marriage of americans? his priority his first priority is to get this issue resolved. if he s not going to be able to get a majority, i think he wants to move on to tax cuts and dealing with the del ceilibt cer dealing with the budget. harold. i don t mean to cut you off, joe. those are the become ends of the party. joe, is there a third option? there is a third option and it s neither. i think right now what mitch
single payor system amendments. you wouldn t want them to have time to read it. some republicans are expressing their frustration. hold on, hold on, hold on, he said, mika, they re going to have time to read it. what i m really excited about, i don t know if you ve ever heard this before but they are the saucer that cools the coffee. you know they re not going to make the same mistake that republicans in the house made and vote on a bill without knowing how much it s going to cost. there s no way that any senator would vote for this without a cbo score, i m sure. right. and reading that. let s just hold them to that standard. we ll get the score and then we can vote. i think a lot of them are speed readers. quote, do you know what the health care bill looks like, senator lisa murkowski of alaska asked reporters yesterday, quote, because i don t.
well, we re going to have much more ahead in this key race. we re going to bring in the washington post s robert costa who has been on the ground reporting in georgia. also ahead we ll speak with kirsten gillibrand and chris murphy and republican senator joe cassidy and tomorrow night joe will be performing at the cutting room. doors open around 7 p.m. joe, save that voice but we ll see you after the break. let s go to bill karins tracking a heat wave and tropical storm. down along the coast, cindy is approaching. it s a rainfall problem and already these heavy bands of rains from new orleans back to pensacola and panama city. the track weakens by the time it gets to northern louisiana, a