publicly? your rhetoric on both sides. you have people wanting to work with the markets and international companies in the administration with wide latitude. the aluminum and steel could have a huge and act on the market or they could just be a study that ends in a small terrace on aluminum or steel. what he is talking in terms of time frames. is it something in the next month or a year long horizon? secretary ross said december they went in a ship in nafta renegotiation before the big election. this is an industry that trump s advisers know very well. they wrap these cases have been give recommendation. we see the ministrations deadlines. we ll see if they keep them. great reporting as always. look forward to having you back.
our chief political correspondent dana bash on capitol hill. enjoy the next few hours, we ll check in as developments warrant. obviously, a big debate. let s come into the room here. this is uncertain. which is a big deal. 63, 64 days into a new presidency, which is a big deal. you hear this is so important for president trump. if he loses this vote it undermines him when it comes to tax reform and when it comes to trade and infrastructure. open the flood gates of republican opposition and undermine the presidency. you hear that this will undermine speaker ryan, if it doesn t cost him his job it will weaken him dramatically. this is civilization is at stake today in washington. how much of that is true and how much of that is hiprbly? i think this is damaging to ryan, if this bill goes down and it s damaging to trump if this bill goes down. trump made the choice to embrace the ryan legislation, which he didn t have to do. but the white house decided that that is what they were goin
the other thing, on the issue of blame, look, i think he probably is more passionate about tax reform or nafta renegotiation or infrastructure. he didn t pick those as his first thing. yep. he picked health care. another point. jeff pointed out that he thinks that often victory is more important than the substance for this president. but there is substance. millions of people who are affected by this and this is a bill, that according to the congressional budget office doesn t do what the president said he would do with health care during the campaign. he said he wouldn t cut medicaid. not going to cover everybody and said it is going to be cheaper. maybe some time but nobody knows how precisely and it might be the kind of thing where if you re a president already running for re-election you have to give at least a little bit of thought to whether you ll keep the promises you actually make. if you like your planning, you can keep it. on that point the art of the segue, keepin
we ve heard all week along about how they re working hand in glove to pass this, will they junk r jump on the sinking boat together or will they have a splooit spl split? and is trump willing to walk away completely. paul ryan has to shepherd his members in to a midterm election potentially not having done anything on health care. that is something that is a really big decision and i think paul ryan probably is trying to find out okay, so is the president really there. is he really trying to just get over to tax reform and infrastructure and all this other stuff because that could be a big problem. if donald trump walks away from repealing obamacare, isn t he walking away from the republican party he just took over? this is an opportunity how much was he really walking with them? this is the thing about trump on health care. he is not in the weeds on the details. he did not take office with a firm ideological vision for what he wanted. but he still campaigned on repealing a
but that s not for us to decide. it s it s something that creates a lot of negative perception in mexico about the relationship with the u.s., and that s the things that we want to work with both secretary kelly and particularly secretary tillerson. is the wall and the nafta renegotiation threat made it so that you can t work on the other issues? mexico will not do anything to hurt our national interests. it s very clear that the u.s. is very important to mexico. mexico is also very important to the u.s. and the there are some there are some limits that we will not cross, and particularly anything that damages our sovereignty and our dignity. our pride as a nation. nafta is an old agreement. it s been good, i think, to both countries, not only to mexico. i think nafta has been good for both economies. it s an old agreement.