what, lawrence, the one silver lining here in all this and the reason why i hesitated to agree with you, that at 11:59 we could be staring at a government shutdown i don t know. is because with president trump, what he says on monday could be completely contradicted by himself on tuesday. and so we could see a situation where he make as deal and the government stays open. what that looks like, i have no idea. i don t either. i m not sitting here saying what s going to happen on the budget. the big wildcard, eli, as always, is donald trump. we don t know what he means, what he doesn t mean. but it s hard to imagine him creating that government shutdown at midnight over a trump issue like the wall or any trump issue in the bill. yeah. i mean, you go back to health care and you heard the way he spoke about it earlier today, the way he said it s great,
bill collapsed in the house of representatives without even coming to a vote, the president said the stupidest possible thing he could say. we ll probably be going right now for tax reform. i think we have to let obamacare go its way for a little while. and we ll see how things go. i would love to see it do well, but it can t. it s imploding and soon with explode. and it s not going to be pretty. and paul ryan actually said something equally stupid. i don t know what else to say other than obamacare is the law of the land. it s going remain the law of the land until it s replaced. we did not have quite the votes to replace this law. and so, yeah, we re going to be living with obamacare for the foreseeable future. so the president and paul ryan completely publicly gave up on their quest to repeal obamacare. it s okay to give up. but legislators, they give up all the time. they just never publicly admit it. they always pretend they re
house leadership side they feel like they should have been at the table earlier. and yeah, not just on policy but on the approach, and it appears that we are hearing from the speaker, from the president and vice president that there is no consensus on what is going on happen next. i want you to listen to paul ryan, president trump and vice president pence. we are going to be living with obamacare for the foreseeable future. i think we have to let obamacare go it s way for a little while and we will see how it goes. we will end the obamacare nightmare and give the american people the world class health care they deserve. until then i can promise you, president trump is never going to stop fighting to keep his promises to the american people, and we will make america great again. so is this administration going to let it run for a while or is he going to keep fighting to repeal it? they are going to have to do both. they are going to have to let it
the vote or he was ready to move on to other items on his agenda. i think we have to let obamacare go its way for a little while. see how things go. it s imploding and soon will explode. and it s not going to be pretty. reporter: the decision to call off the vote came after house speaker paul ryan left the capitol to visit the white house and deliver message in person to the president that republicans did not have the votes to pass the plan. sources tell cnn a key part of that closed-door conversation dealt with whether the president would take any responsibility for the disdecision to scrap the vote. as that meeting played out behind the scenes, the white house press secretary was publicly making the case to reporters that the president had done all he could to deliver a legislative victory. there s no question in my mind, at least, that the president and the team here have left everything on the field. reporter: part of the administration s last-minute push included dispatchi
i think we have to let obamacare go its way for a little while. don and eric are going to be running the company. they re not going to discuss it with me. we have a southern white house influence. it s all unacceptable. i m not, and i don t want to be the president of the world. i m distrustful of how quickly he switched. i don t change. well, i do change. and i am flexible. and i m proud of that flexibility. if anything, the doctrine would be impulsiveness. better behave. the era of strategic patience is over. tonight, a special edition of the last word, 100 days of conflicts. since donald trump was sworn in, he has had conflicts with congress, conflicts with his own