is there something you re going to change about graham cassidy or just going to put it up again the way it was. there will be some modification going forward because it s a different legislative year. on the other hand, senator collins was concerned about another part of graham cassidy, the per capita cap. she wanted to have a fuller understanding of that, make sure mainers did okay on that. we ll have the next several months to explore that and prove that maine does pretty well under the per capita cap. our compressed time frame last time didn t allow us to push back, didn t allow us to tell those like the people in virginia and missouri, how much better their states did. certainly moved to regular order. this is joe scarborough, senator obviously is a step in the right direction. what mika was pointing out, the
mcconnell s office is he still has an agenda that he d like to push. he knows he needs the president to do that. the other thing that s mentioned in the front page of the new york times today, this is two on the list is his wife, elaine chao is the secretary of transportation, and that s awkward for him. she sits at the side as she said yesterday of the president of the united states. he has to manage that as well. get over it. that s in the stew as well. peter baker, it s interesting. if you think about president trump s list of achievements thus far as mt., his supporters always point to gorsuch being nominated to the supreme court, and the truth of that story is that it was mitch mcconnell who got gorsuch on the supreme court, refused to hold hearings for president obama s nominee and pushed through gorsuch. so president trump has a lot to thank mitch mcconnell for.
he is now leaving the white house. is he going to be working from the outside. so the big question is this a new start, a fresh start for the administration to move forward? and the role that steve bannon is going to play. what will that be? is he going to put more pressure on because as you know, steve, he is not a big fan of the establishment republicans. is he not a fan of rhinos. steve: neither is the president of the united states. steve bannon who joined the campaign last august, when president trump was down by double digits, he really was the guy who pushed the president toward his populist agenda. he understood the working class voters. answered did his best to present an agenda for the president to push. the question is, what s going to happen to that agenda? also the question is what exactly happened to steve bannon. after that report came out in the american prospect a couple of days ago where he thought he was off the record, reportedly, but he was on the record, and he mo
an air tpha that there was a certain threat. as we re watching air force one, we re finishing up the pentagon briefing on isis. i m curious again the timing of that. one of the things you read quite a bit about is what s happening in syria. that being one of the big big items for president obama. you say there might be an tune here for the american president now. what is it? look, the opportunity is to bring together our arab allies. let the iranians and russians know we re not gonna tolerate an assad regime in the future. we need to empower forces on the ground who aren t islamic extremists to start to begin to take territory. to push back on, to push back on isis and affiliated groups. push back on al qaeda. but to ensure that hezbollah and other terrorist groups and the russians aren t going to take substantial ground. all that means is potential conflict. they need to know that we are
opportunities for amendments and so forth. but remember, you still have reconciliation. and the house isn t going to waste that opportunity. that s a powerful tool to do something. so, i think that they will be coming back with some sort of bill. i think in the meantime do you think they re going to do another health care bill? i think there will be some sort of they re going to look at this. i ve been texting back and forth with my freedom caucus friends and my tuesday group friends and they all feel like, you know what, tough decision, but in politics you have to survive. if you survive, you live to fight another day. today was the strategic decision to let this one go. what are they geneva convention to push, are they going to put full repeal on the board and try to get that on the floor and send that to the senate? i don t think that they can do that. i know there is a belief, but i don t think they ll be able to do that. i think the tuesday group alone will say the