a woman was taking a dig asking a question about now president obama, and john mccain stopped her. and he said, well, i might disagree with barack obama politically, he s a decent man. he s a family man. there was another video of him speaking at the al smith dinner talking about how he couldn t wish obama luck in the election but he could wish him well and what an impressive thoughtful man he thought obama was, and it s that level of decency and respect that washington so desperately needs right now. there you have nancy pelosi and paul ryan standing next to one another. when was the last time they did that. and before that, and by the way, you ll see vice president pence there will be three wreaths before the benediction by the senate chaplain. the election night defeat speech that john mccain gave in which he said barack obama will be my president. people forget that 2016 was a very divided nation but so is
about 2018. his low numbers are drive by unusually low numbers among democrats and independents who lean left. different than what we ve seen with past presidents. the democrats can take back those districts which trump won which hillary won, 2323 districts and i think we saw that what happened with the debacle of health care was not simple police the freedom caucus. it was progressives and democrats and people at rallies saying health care is a fundamental right and the democrats need to advance that through medicare for all and and mid-life medicare as the senator from organiegon is talk about. let me ask you as a former republican member of congress. do you buy that president trump and house speaker paul ryan are getting along right now hand had two days of fantastic conversations can, or do you think there s a new level of tension between them? one of things you learn in politics in washington, d.c. is that tomorrow is another day and there are there is another set of
committees in congress opposed to this and there were no democrats and that tells you there s something wrong. people say this bill was a failure. i don t see it as a failure anymore than when they were doing one of the apollo launches and get down to the last second countdown and they stop it because something is wrong. they want to make sure they have a successful launch. they went back and found out what was wrong, they came out and launched it, and that s what will happen here. my prediction is that it will be done sooner than later and i admire president trump for having the wisdom to say you know what, let s not get a defeat. let s pull this bill, let s revamp it and for paul ryan to have the courage to do it. people are calling it a defeat and i think that s way wrong no. more of a defeat than tom brady in that last series of play in the super bowl calling a time-out. they went to the huddle, huddled up, got a new play and got the ball over the finish line and that will happen h
this bill we had. it passed the house and the senate and went to president obama who we knew was going to veto it. why can t we do that same thing now and start all over and then you ll have republicans and democrats that come in to fix health care for the american people. is paul ryan doing a good job as speaker of the house? paul ryan has got a tough job. i think paul is doing a great job. i voted for him this year, but our job, too, is to hold people accountable as we get held accountable by our constituents. we did a survey in our district, and there was over 3,400 people that we surveyed. 200 people wanted us to vote for this bill. the rest said do not support this bill. and we heard frahm people who were calling offices saying that they were against it. sure. not just your district. the question is what s next? what s next is supposed to be tax reform and fixing obamacare was supposed to be easy compared to tax reform, sews specifically let me ask you about the border a
more trouble than not even though he s trying to be transparent. maybe he should just be quiet. he s also somebody over the years that the chairman has cultivated his own sources and at times gone around his own leadership when he wanted to learn things and bring things to light, so it s not completely out of character for chairman nunes to do things that strike people as funny. the question here is can he ultimately explain his actions and keep the house intelligence committee s investigation into the russian meddling and the leaking above board? democrats say no. i mean, chuck schumer, the senate minority leader was on senate floor, katrina, saying, you know, he needs to resign. paul ryan needs to push him off the committee. he s not responsible. the other hand though is that democrats themselves haven t been completely lily while. the ranking member that have committee adam schiff has said he s seen information that a grand jury should see. i i think devin nunes has shown he s