going to hear from us. yeah. using their bodies and their stories to draw attention to the help that the aca has given them, particularly through medicaid expansion. you know, it was incredibly devious thing that the republicans did to put medicaid on the table at all in what they were calling the repeal of obamacare because, you know, medicaid wasn t something that people were clamoring to get rid of except if you were paul ryan at a keg party 20 years ago. you know, i have to say that, you know, lost in all this, i think peter made a great point, that the republican party sort of ceded politics to theatrics. they elected an incredibly theatrical president. lost in all this is the aca is an actually incredible conservative and market-driven bill. it s the place republicans should start if they want a market-driven reform to what everyone agrees was pre-aca a pretty bad deal. they ve vacated a lot of arguments they have for
manager, corey lewandowski. plus, the republican health care effort goes belly up with a thumbs down from john mccain. and the president threatens to sabotage obamacare. i said from the beginning, let obamacare implode and then do it. let obamacare implode. will president trump try to push obamacare over the edge? i ll ask hhs secretary tom price and susan collins, one of the republican no votes. and red/blue divide. candidate trump broke down the democrats midwestern blue wall. is it still holding, and could we be seeing cracks in the republican southern red wall. joining me for insight and analysis are hugh hewitt, helene cooper, pentagon correspondent for the new york times, democratic pollster nbc news political analyst cornell belcher and eliana johnson. welcome to sunday, it s meet
let obamacare implode. [ applause ] every one of those police officers in new york applauding the president s attack on obamacare today enjoys government-funded health insurance for themselves and for their families at very considerable cost to taxpayers, including taxpayers who cannot afford health insurance for themselves. joining us now, ana marie cox, a contributor to the new york times magazine and the host of the podcast, with friends like these. back with us, peter wehner. ana, the play on the senate turned out for me, anyway, the way i expected it to. i never saw a way mitch mcconnell could pass a bill with this much opposition out there. and mitch mcconnell at the end of the night got to say the thing he s been dying to say
republican party than showed up in the vote count? i do because it was a historically unpopular bill being pushed by a historically unpopular president. the bill itself is incoherent. the rallying cry at the end was vote for this bill because it won t become law, which is insane. and i think that a lot of republicans were very, very wary about it and wanted to get away. i do want to make a broader point because i think that this calamity for republicans, legislative calamity, is really a manifestation and crystallization of habits that have developed over years with republicans. what i mean by that is there s been a devaluation of ideas and almost an allergy to governing, that politics became theatrics, not seriousness about governing. what that meant is that for seven years they said we re going to repeal and replace obamacare, and they had no idea how they were going to do it. and then they elected donald trump as president, the most ignorant and out of his depth
can you believe it? the swamp. we ll get it done. i said from the beginning, let obamacare implode and then do it. i turned out to be right. let obamacare implode. just before his chief of staff today, that was just hours after senate republicans failed to pass even the skinny repeal, as they called it, of obamacare. the president s speech today centered on lurid depictions. he praised john kelly who just hours later he announced as his new chief of staff. joining me, the first district who traveled with the president today. you were in territory that s adjoining your territory. you had a home town crowd today. the president once referred to the white house as a smoothly running machine. would you say that s the case? well, hopefully by putting an experienced general, it can