obamacare fail, they re willing to wait until after the 2018 elections, relitigate after the 2018 elections and cop bame bac with a weakened democratic party. if it gets too intense, next week the president heads to ohio. and as hans mentioned there, president trump is formulating his strategy for the road ahead for health care. that will include welcoming senate republicans to the white house for lunch, though the white house has not released who will be attending the meeting, only saying health care and other issues are on the agenda. i m ayman mohyeldin alongside louis burgdorf. morning joe starts now. we ve had no democratic support. which is something that should be said. we should have had democrats
exaggerated claims of voter fraud has its first official meeting. it s actually happening. we ll bring that to you as soon as we get it and after that, president trump will have lunch with republican senators at the white house to talk about the next move on health care now that the effort to repeal and replace obamacare has failed again. during all of this, the president is lashing out over reports of a second previously undisclosed meeting with russian president vladimir putin earlier this month. there s new information that a one on one meeting between president trump and vladimir putin took place and it came hours after their first official face to face. at the dinner for world leaders and spouses, the man who broke the story, ian bremer says many of america s allies were surprised by the meeting. well, it s not surprising for leaders to have informal pull
but it s making causal linkages. so it deepens the suspicion. this is outside of my wheelhouse, so we only rely on common sense. you put one and two and three and four and five and six and seven together and you conclude there s something going on with donald trump and russia. looks that way. you were next, why the apparent collapse of the republican plan to repeal and replace obamacare reflects a larger problem for the party overall and how it could get worse. for seven years republicans have told the voters if you elect us we ll repeal obamacare. i think we will look like fools if we can t deliver on that promise. (vo) dogs have evolved, but their nutritional needs remain instinctual. that s why there s purina one true instinct. nutrient-dense, protein-rich, real meat number one. this is a different breed of nutrition. purina one, true instinct.
care plan. the 11 governors, five democrats, five republicans, and one independent said in a statement, quote, the senate should immediately reject efforts to repeal the current system and replace sometime later. this could leave millions of americans without coverage. the best next step is from both parties to come together and do what we can and all agree on. fix our unstable insurance markets. this from a group of governors, one of them joins me now, one of my faves, a democrat from the state of colorado, governor john hickenlooper. governor, when you hear president excuse me, president trump say, let obama care die, knowing the consequences, if it fails, knowing the consequences, if the current administration undercuts the system that is in place, what is your take on this response from the president? well, i think that luckily the senate sees things with a
that are before us. and that s disappointing. we as republicans achieved this, we have the house, the senate and the white house and the republicans didn t like obamacare and they wanted to repeal and replace it. virtually everyone campaigned on it and we need to continue to work on it. that was republican senator marco rubio earlier today with his on party for failing again to reach a consensus on health care. the fracture is a symptom of a problem that goes all the way to the party s soul. with the republican party divided the fights are expected to continue and potentially intensify. trump has shown an ideological openness to support any bill that has a chance of passage. hoping to notch a legislative victory after experiencing numerous defeats. joining is the president of the american action forum, a former director of the cbo and former adviser to the mccain campaign. doug, let me start with you.