president trump hasn t been able to convince senate republicans to support the republican health care bill for two reasons. one, it is a very bad bill. two, because according to the washington post, quote, in private conversations on capitol hill, trump is often not taken seriously. john weaver, former chief strategist for john kasich tells the washington post, when you have a 35% approval rating and you re under fbi investigation, you don t have a hammer. pulling support for what is now the mitch mcconnell health care bill ranges and this is recent polling taken this week, ranges from a high of 27% from a fox news poll to a low of 12% in a suffolk university poll. joining us now, liz mayer and john hol iman.
somehow revived on the senate floor where he cannot afford to lose three votes. mitch mcconnell is the best tack tissuen working in the congress today. he s better at legislative strategy than paul ryan ever was. much more experienced. but he s not a miracle worker, and that s why the resistance won yesterday, and that s why the resistance wins every day that goes by when mitch mcconnell doesn t add a single yes vote to a bill the republican senate is afraid to vote for. joining us now, john hol iman, national affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc, and joy reid, host of a.m. joy on msnbc. so, joy, this peculiar process of what s he doing, how come he isn t using the committee, why is he using this group of 13 he knew.
misplayed their hand. i notice one strategist was quoted in one of the axios morning newsletters saying they think attacking dean heller and threatening to drop seven figures against dean heller was probably the stupidest mistake the trump team had made second to firing james comey. i think that speaks volumes. quick last word. the other thing of course is the notion that trump holds a victory celebration for the passage of the house bill and then later calls it mean. obviously it s inconsistent but the point is if you re a senator that s anti-leadership. if you re going to exercise leverage, people have no know you re going to be consistent and reliable. once you think the guy could do anything at any point, he comes to you and begs you to vote for something and then he s going to screw you later, it doesn t work. liz, john, thank you both for joining us. appreciate it.
if the non-group market, if their theory is true that all 10 million of those people just don t want insurance, which is crazy because i doubt they don t want insurance, that would only be 10 million versus 72 million people on medicaid. if you re dean heller, you can do the math. and if you re most other than those 13 guys or five of them, they can just do the math. it s very hard to undo obamacare. let s put up on the screen again the names of the undecided republicans if we can do that. 39 of them, john. it s a stunning group because it includes members of the leadership. it includes john thune. it includes john cornyn. it includes the republicans from mississippi. why? because they re afraid of being beaten by a democrat if they vote for this thing? it includes the republicans from alabama. it includes most of the chairmen. it includes all of the high levels, chuck grassley, the senior players. there s a simpler explanation that goes to another aspect of the peculiarity of this
two, because according to the washington post, quote, in private conversations on capitol hill, trump is often not taken seriously. john weaver, former chief strategist for john kasich tells the washington post, when you have a 35% approval rating and you re under fbi investigation, you don t have a hammer. pulling support for what is now the mitch mcconnell health care bill ranges and this is recent polling taken this week, ranges from a high of 27% from a fox news poll to a low of 12% in a suffolk university poll. joining us now, liz mayer and john hol iman. liz, it doesn t seem as though the president has a hammer. i don t know what else he has, and i just don t see why any republican senator would take him seriously in any conversation. am i missing something? i don t think you re entirely missing things, no. my perception of this is, you