and republicans are going to have to ask themselves, is it worth it? you are going to have to take all this abuse from people who are understandably emotional. some of it s going to be activists, right, who are sort of beginginned up by the partie. and some of it is very organic, people who are upset about any change to health care coming from the right or the left. and do republicans want to go through that pain and abuse. for what? for obamacare-lite, is it going to be a free market solution? that s part of the reason why i think this thing got kicked after the fourth of july. it s also, kiersten, at this point, taking something, you know, some people who oppose it are going to see it as taking something away from people. people who have health insurance, losing health insurance, that s a lot harder than awarding something to somebody or giving something to somebody which they consider a
before they decided to go after one of their own, particularly somebody who is so vulnerable heading into 2018. kiersten, the pac behind the ad seems to have no regrets. katrina wilson is with this group, she had this to say to anderson about this last night. listen. our main concern is pushing forward policies that support americans first, particularly those republicans have been campaigning on for last seven years. if i could give you context. because there were other senators who did not support the bill in its current form. however, they stayed at the table. they offered their own ideas. senator heller held a press conference friday, said absolutely not and walked away from the table. i m happy to see he is back. she said that the prepared to resume the ads if need be. what is wrong with this group doing this? isn t this what pacs are about? it s not a matter of right or wrong. it s a matter of what s
about changes to obamacare can be summed up in a single tweet like this one. rep tom reed, you re done, i don t usually vote in the midterms, but i will now, start packing your bags, you muppet. a warning shot? or a sign of things to come? randi kaye, cnn, new york. joining us now is kiersten powers. as we saw, the anger from some constituents who face losing health care, and when senators go back to their districts, they could get an earful, do you think some will just choose not to have town halls? we ve already seen some members of congress avoiding having town halls because they don t want to deal with this, but they re still going to hear from constituents, and the problem from republicans is they get it from both sides. they are going to hear from people not wanting to lose their health care and also hearing from people who said you promised that you were going to
during the legislative process. even though it was never popular and they never liked it, when democrats were wavering, they could count on president obama to use his leverage with the liberal base to keep them going, whether he gave speeches, whether he traveled the country. this is not something we have seen from the president. i think it s why some republicans, though not all, have felt like he is not immersed in the details. he doesn t talk about why he wants to repeal and replace the affordable care act in a public sense beyond twitter. beyond that, in states like arizona and nevada and others, he doesn t have much in the way of political cover to help wavering senators. that s an sh here. . you raise a good point. it s something that clearly the president seems to be sensitive to today. kiersten, you saw him tweeting about it this morning. the president seeming to try to it appears push back on reports that he is struggling to be struggling to be a closer
and nunez said the other thing i think is concerning is that donald trump had said on tucker carlson s show, some information s going to be coming out. and now this information spicer reiterated that yesterday. and we don t know how congressman nunez got this information. so there are a lot of questions that need to be answered here. that s my point. great minds think alike. i think kiersten s exactly right on that. donald trump said that obama wiretapped him in trump tower. this was not, this was incidental, which means they were not targeting donald trump or his administration or his transition team but i think, look, this really called into question, into serious question the objectivity and the independence of this congressional investigation. i think if i were the chairman of this, you know, if i found out this information, my first move would be to go to the ranking member and say hey,