the white house. paul manafort might have secured the nomination, but he got himself to the white house. and roger stone calls steve bannon a paper tiger with all the threats that what s actually ever going to materialize? steve bannon is a smart guy. there s no doubt about it. and he has a following. but when you start talking about how donald trump has to follow steve bannon or else, that s when it becomes a con job. i agree. finally, i do just want to say, mark, bannon could be helping the president putting more pressure on the right to actually come up with a deal that, yes, the president will do a deal with daca, with the democrats, and a lot of republicans, but you re going to have to have tough border enforcement, not a wall. but you re going to have to get tough border enforcement and
that would be complicated by primaries. it would be expensive and in some cases republicans could lose to less electable candidates. what bannon is talking about, that alone is just a huge problem for republicans in the short term and maybe for the second half of donald trump s term in office. look, i agree with mark. i think that bannon is a lot smarter than we think. i hear the numbers and i hope the numbers are i hope the numbers are what you re saying. there s something to what he s saying. he s either going to be proven right about what? the civil war? yes. right or wrong. i hope he s proven wrong. i think the path the president is on could make it where he s proven to be wrong. there are a number of republicans outside of the enclaves that we love and live in, and we understand other parts of the country, but he has to be proven wrong before we can
jordan, nick confisori, mark halperin, and robert costa. mark, we re going to dive into all the political news, but first i want to ask you what i actually asked jim before he left at the end of last hour. what what are you looking at at the beginning of this week? it s a fascinating time. republicans are trying to recover from the deal struck last week. donald trump actually seems to have his head down more than he has in the 7 1/2, eight months he s been in the white house. and actually he s taking a meeting with democratic senators from red states tonight. this looks like his effort to keep reaching across the aisle and actually turning his back on mitch mcconnell. it looks like that s continuing. i think the most important thing for the president is the most important thing for real
off this conversation in real terms with the bipartisan senators on tax reform. gary cohn and steve mnuchin meeting on the hill today with mitch mcconnell and others to have this conversation. peter alexander, thank you very much. the wall street journal editorial board is calling on mark med koadows to run for spe of the house. writing if the freedom caucus is upset enough to condemn nate a leadership coup, let s get it on now. congress is entering a critical few months. force a debate and vote while there s still time to save the day. it s time for mr. meadows to step into the spotlight and take responsibility. the honorable act would be to announce an immediate challenge to mr. ryan surrounded by his supporters and the breitbart staff. lay out the strategy for passing tax reform, for raising the debt limit, and for passing the
of cbo, they said premiums would come down because of our changes. that was our objective. we didn t sop the health care bill. it was six republican senators who voted different than 18 months ago. that s the problem. let s get focussed on doing what we told the voters we were going to do on health care, on the border security wall and tax reform and tax cuts. get focussed on that and not have stories being written about those things. focus on what we were sent here to accomplish. mark has a question. how do you escape the reality that even on health care something republicans promised for even years to do, there s no bill that apparently can pass the house and senate with republican votes? how do you solve that problem on other issues? i think you got to keep talking. one of the best things you can do is not take a six-week break. we just took the longest august recess that s happened in a decade. the freedom caucus said don t leave town. we have to figure out what to do