senate finance committee and we took republican amendments. we had scores of meetings and forums and opportunities for both sides to be heard. bottom line is on the affordable care act, we took republican amendments on the on senate finance committee. okay. that s a good reminder. lipp lindsay gram and john mccain are famously fast friends. everybody knows that. do you think this is what s it like behind the scenes there that john mccain is one of the no most vocal voices on this bill that his best friend is pushing? well, both of them have said that they re going to make decisions and john mccain always has lindsey graham said is on the basis of principle. what john mccain is saying the principle of making sure that you at least try to find some common ground is more important than his friendship with lindsey
we ve added much more than one million jobs. we are keeping our promises to the people, and, yes, we are putting finally, finally, finally, we are putting america first. the speech full of that kind of victorious talk, was it true? trump s pledges to build a wall, fix immigration, drain the swamp, we peel obamacare, put america first and boost jobs, if you think about those after six months, let s be honest. trump has failed to get results on about five out of six priorities. it took congress, not trump to put america first by standing up to russia on sanctions this week. the bright spot for trump is the economy. surging stocks and falling unemployment. whether that s a trump bounce or him inheriting momentum is up for debate. keep that factual record in mind when the president makes this
the people in their state who have this terrible addiction to opiates. we have seen this in my state of new hampshire and the state of ohio and the state of west virginia making sure we are taking care of people is a big part of this legislation. i any the president wants to do that. he has talked about it a lot. it s a serious problem. if we can put resources into the bill to take care of those people so their states are taken care of and people with terrible drug problems are taken care of, i m sure the president wants to do this to get this bill done. brian: he only has so much control. i think senator moran and senator lee did not inform the president they were doing this or their leadership. he was at a dinner with seven of them and it turns out the whole thing fell apart when i will they were finishing their dinner in the white house. there seems to be unwe wouldiness on the other side democrats had 60 votes, 60 senators they all got behind president obama. they paid a brutal pri
fail. for seven years i have been hearing repeal and place from congress. i have been hearing it loud and strong. when we finally get a chance to repeal and replace, they don t take advantage of it that s disappointing. let obamacare fail. it will be a lot easier. we are probably in that position where we will just let obamacare fail. we re not going to own it i m not going to own you. i can tell you the republicans are not going to own it we will let obamacare fail and then the democrats are going to come to us and say how do we fix it? how do we fix it? the fix appears to be for right now to resurrect a repeal only house bill from 2015 that president obama vetoed and not wasting any time, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell announced they will proceed to vote on it as early as next week. at the request of the president and the vice president, and after consulting with our members, we ll have the vote on the motion to proceed to the obamacare repeal bill early next week.
bill are the fact is that they lee a lot of obamacare in place. and you wonder if that would have been some of the compromise if they had hashed it out nose to nose. rush limbaugh was speculating yesterday on what went wrong, and he believes republicans and democrats on some level are fighting against one man, the president. there is no way that this establishment was going to permit an outsider to come in and clean house and show how washington can work and blow their cover for the last how many decades. they were not going to make it easy for trump. it has never been about trump unifying the republican party in order to beat the democrats. that s been the ms. stake. that s not the fight here. the fight is not republican versus democrat. the fight is donald trump and his cadre and you, the trump base, versus the washington establishment. it has always been that. and nothing more. in the mess of a silent coo. these people are trying to take this president out.