Major news overnight, a devastating blow to the president s top legislative priority. This morning as Mitch Mcconnell concedes defeat on the Senate Health care bill in its current form. He had essentially no choice after two more republicans defected from the bill, leaving it without enough support even to begin debate, christine. Late last night, mcconnell explained in a statement, regretfully, it is now apparent that the effort to repeal and immediately replace the failure of obamacare will not be successful. Mcconnell now making a major pivot, announcing he will push for a new version that will repeal obamacare outright with a twoyear phaseout so theres time to come up with a replacement system. Mcconnell notes that a majority of senators already backed a house repeal bill in 2015. The statement came moments after the president posted a tweet along the same lines republicans should just repeal failing obamacare now and work on a new Health Care Plan that will start from a clean slat
This is breaking news from our nations capital. If you have been following the health care fight you know the magic number has been two. That is the total number of republican votes that the republicans can afford to lose in the senate and still kill the Affordable Care act. The Senate Republican leader is Mitch Mcconnell and he has said he is determined to get the vote on his partys very Unpopular Health care bill that is expected to cost tens of millions of americans their Health Insurance. He said he is wanting to push back the recess to keep republicans in washington longer the better to be near them so as to twist their arms and offer them stuff that might sweeten the deal. But he really does need almost every republican in the senate to go along if hes going to pass this repeal of the Affordable Care act. And coming into tonight. Those two spots were taken. This has been true for a few days. And we had every reason to believe it would be true all this week. Coming into tonight th
Effectively killing the whole thing. Here first was the president just moments ago. Weve had a lot of victories but we havent had a victory on health care. Were disappointed. I am very disappointed because, again, even as a civilian, for seven years, ive been hearing about health care. And ive been hearing about repeal and replace, and obamacare is a total disaster. Some states had over 200 increase, a 200 increase in their premiums and their deductibles are through the roof. Its an absolute disaster. And i think youll also agree that ive been saying for a long time, let obamacare fail and then everybodys going to have to come together and fix it. And come up with a new plan and a plan thats really good for the people with much lower premiums, much lower costs, and much better protection. Ive been saying that, mike, i think youll agree, for a long time. Let obamacare fail. It will be a lot easier. And i think were probably in that position where well just let obamacare fail. Were not g
President trump short on legislative wins, still claiming that he beats all his predecessors. We have signed more bills and im talking about through the legislature, than any president ever, for a while harry truman had us. Now i think we have everybody. I better say think, or they will give you a pinocchio. You wouldnt want those pinocchios. Good day, im Andrea Mitchell in washington where Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is running out of options, falling back on a 2015 plan for a straight Obamacare Repeal now that the first two senate bills are dead. The Trump White House stunned by monday nights tweets from republican senators jerry motra and mike lee, minutes after the president wrapped up a dinner with senators who were already on board with the legislation. The president tweeting, pushing for full repeal, blaming democrats, calling on senators to let obamacare fail. Joining me now is casey hunt on capitol hill and Kristen Welker at the white house. Welcome, both. Casey, wh
Hours later, a Republican Health care plan collapsed. A pair of republican senators pulled their support killing the republican plan to repeal and replace obamacare. Now the republicans are just talking about repeal. Good morning, welcome to morning joe. We have columnist mike barnicle, economic analyst steve rattner, senior political analyst for nbc news, Mark Halperin and from the associated press, julie pace. The president said youre going to have such Great Health Care at a tiny fraction of the cost and its going to be so easy. That was october of 2016, joe. And Mark Halperin has said all along the greatest risk to donald trump, the greatest risk to the republican majority may not be the russian scandals, it may not be the indiscriminate tweeting, the unpresident ial behavior, it may not be the question of checks and balances and throwing aside every sacred tradition of the United States government over the past 240 years, it may be the inability to get things done because Donald T