as you talk about his accomplishments, no one can take away the fact that the president signed a major piece of legislation, and he got neil gorsuch on the supreme court. those are major accomplishments. and vice president mike pence has been tweeting, as well, touting the record. let s put up the tweet the vice president shared with the public. he said this, in just one year, at potus fulfilled promise after promise. neil gorsuch on the supreme court, 1.7 million new jobs, isis on the run, largest tax cut in american history, #makeamericagreatagain. the promise wasn t to repeal the individual mandate, the promise was to repeal and replace obamacare. again, when they put down the facts, it almost seems as if they are stretching it. the repeal of the mandate, i
red districts, red states who have been campaigning for years and years on the promise of repealing the affordable care act. then a big part of the reason republicans control the house and they ve grown their house majority over the past few midterm cycles are because of members who are in very close districts, maybe d plus 1 districts, districts that are very close, and that makes them hesitant about trying to go out on a limb politically. additionally, though, mcconnell and the white house face a lot of pressure from their base when it comes to potentially trying to stabilize insurance markets. based on my reporting, conversations that i ve had, part of the reason that one of those proposed bipartisan fixes that would have tried to stabilize insurance markets, the alexander murray compromise, part of the reason that didn t get passed already when congress was passing a host of last microfiber minute bills before the end of this congressional year is because pro-life
alabama, it s essentially a wash. so if the senate is going to get anything passed, it has to be done on a bipartisan basis. so in that sense, the president s tweet is correct. if and when anything is going to be done on health care legislatively, it s going to have to be done on a bipartisan basis. but the idea of kicking the original mandate out of obamacare and the rest of obamacare is simply going to fall apart really doesn t pass muster. you still have the medicaid expansion which covers millions and millions of people. you still have 9 million people sign up for obamacare in the shortened enrollment period it had this year. you still have all the original protections to the obamacare plan that are still in place. but to the end that any additional changes would have to pass muster, the president would have to be behind that. let me ask you before we go, garrett, about the president s
betsy, let me ask you about something the president tweeted today, which is the issue of health care, trying to move that to center stage. i know mitch mcconnell has tried to signal he wants to move past health care, but there is legislation in the senate that will try to stabilize those markets, which has been a big challenge over this issue for the past year. and it seems like both president trump and speaker ryan, they re actually open to trying to take one more shot at killing obamacare for good, even though they failed earlier this year. do you think that leader mcconnell is right to try and keep health care off of voters minds before going into november? do you think the voting public is sick and tired of these failed attempts to repeal obamacare? that s a good question. it s a really difficult, dicey situation for republicans because the republican party on capitol hill is essentially two different parties. you have republicans, especially in the house but also in the senat
investigate the other side. brian: i want to hear about the informant that knows all the information about uranium one and fusion gps who should be coming forward. now they have permission to go forward and tell your story. that might change attorney general sessions mind. steve: that particular informant was so compelling and a number of people wound up going to jail, so it sounds like certain members of certain committees are going to be able to entire view him. he will talk to jim jordan himself an hour from now. all system goes for house republicans just days before their plan to vote on taxes. ainsley: this as the senate has just announced a big change to plan that s making democrats furious. brian: up to me to toss to griff, griff. [laughter] mitch mcconnell blindsided democrats when republicans are taking a swipe at killing obamacare by adding it to the tax bill. yeah, we are optimistic