credibility continues to fade over the russia investigation. president trump s response to the collapse of the health care bill exacerbating growing tensions between senate republicans and the white house. we ve got to get away from this attitude that you have to agree with the president and the senator should be a rubber stamp for everyone the president wants at all times. reporter: majority leader mitch mcconnell by passing the request to hold another repeal vote and rejecting the president s demand that the senate change their rules to pass bills by a simple majority. if there are not the votes in the senate, as i have said repeatedly to the president and to all of you, to change the rules of the senate. reporter: it comes as the senate health committee s influential republican chairman also pushes back against the president s letting obama care implode by stopping payments to insurance companies. our proposal is by mid
care, the president has tweeted criticism against his own party. he singled out specific lawmakers and issued veiled threats of repercussions if a new bill is not passed soon. today a different approach. tweeting don t give up republican senators, repeal and replace, and go to 51 votes. nuke option. across state lines and more. the president has direct ed senators to let obama care implode. is he going to let it implode, or as he says, do the right thing for the american people? i think what the president said is it s not the right thing to do, because it hurts people. this week, he said he was going to let it implode. is that what he s going to do? no, i think again that punctuates the concern he has about getting this moved in the right direction.
but he says let obama care implode then deal. that punctuates the seriousness with which he understands the american people are having to deal with the current situation. is what he is suggesting letting it implode putting the needs of patients first? the current system is imploding. the president has stated it. i understand it, the american people understand it. joining me right now, a senior writer for cnn money. if a new health care billing is not approved quickly. if these bailouts for insurance companies are the cost sharing payments, is it up to the president to withhold or release those payments?
joining the conversation here in new york, rick tyler, msnbc political analyst. former director of progressive media for the clinton campaign, and now director for sirius xm. we wondered if he would talk about the health care epic fail, and he did, here is what he saids ago. congress is really owning up and doing a job. they should have approved health care last night, but you can t have everything, boy oh boy. they have been working on that one for seven years. the swamp, but you ll get it done, we re going to get it get done. i said late obama care implode and i was right. rick tyler, he turned out to
the be right. he skipped the part where he was for repeal. he laid all of this firmly on the doorstep of the republicans that didn t vote for it and the democrats, and he saw it comes from the beginning. yeah, he has been on every side of the issue as normal as usual. one thing she wrong about, the republicans know it s not whether or not obama care implodes or not, we have obama care and the president and the republicans, if they re going to implode and it may, it will be their fault. where does the president go with this? does he do anything? does he sit back and wait for it to implode? or does he do some of the things we talked about in the last several days which is there are