liz, it doesn t seem as though the president has a hammer. i don t know what else he has, and i just don t see why any republican senator would take him seriously in any conversation. am i missing something? i don t think you re entirely missing things, no. my perception of this is, you know, first of all, i think john weaver has a few points that are very well taken here. i don t think he really does have a hammer. but in addition to that, trump is, to be quite blunt about it, he is not regarded as somebody who is in any way shape, care, or form, a health care policy wonk or a policy wonk at all. about all he seems to know about health care is like many big employers, i think he would rather not have to personally deal with the hassle of getting insurance, and for that reasons he seems to have defaulted to single payer health care or socialized medicine. and i think that s probably about as much as he really knows about health care policy. you know, i also think candidly
on this, to get in the weeds and get the deal done. do you see evidence that evidence of his influence in this discussion? have we seen evidence of the president throwing his weight around on this yet? i don t think we have seen it in the senate the way we saw it in the house. that s basically because there was a calculation that was made was the senators really weren t going to be swayed by trump as much. because of the fact he is not able to get into the weeds with them. that s why the vice-president was sort of dispatched to be more of the person to be running interference with the senators. i think the fact is, i don t think anyone has accused donald trump of being a policy wonk. he is not. he is a political animal and escalate to that game. that s not his main business. i think that he is taking offense at that. the truth is, this is something we see time and time again, that he is really focused on the political issue, which is there is a promise made, we said we would get ri
that we ve seen the first few months of the president in office, how do you feel about the president so far? i think he s done a great job. if he had done nothing except say i was not elected to be the president of paris, i m elected to be the president of pittsburgh, i would give him an a+ rating. some of the tweets, yeah, i m an old policy wonk, you know? and i wish that that were a little bit, you know, tempered a little bit. but that is not the way he got elected. that is his way of doing it. i know this, frank sinatra didn t become the chairman of the board by doing it other people he did it his way. so president trump did not become the president of the united states and the leader of the free world by doing it the way everybody told him. so rock on, sir. go for it. like you say, i m an old policy wonk. i think he has got some wonderful people around him in his cabinet. i m grateful for the fact that he has put america first. he s going to hold them by the
president was not a legislate your eer, not a policy wonk and he sort of felt like republicans won, republican house, senate, president, it would be open season for in the weeds policy bills. that s not what we ve seen at all. the president may not be detail oriented but he s not going to be rolled by house republicans and certainly not ryan. the old we ll pass them, he ll sign them has proven not to be true. president trump getting high marks on his international trip but there are some spots where he s getting upstaged, you might say. the first shampoo with active pro-v nutrient blends fueling hair 100% stronger that s instantly smoother and tangle free. because strong is beautiful.
to start. they have been talking about this for at least seven weeks. and mark is right, it s a clean slate. they re going to start all over. pre-existing conditions i think is going to be the centerpiece of this, because that is a very important part of people s lives and part of their pocketbook, and they re going to be watching this with a lot of scrutiny because this is an important part of how they look at this bill. and dana bash, you know, mitch mcconnell explained to me the role he plays going forward and the difference between mitch mcconnell and paul ryan. look, up until yesterday afternoon, paul ryan was seen as a policy wonk who couldn t necessarily handle the inner workings of the politics of the house of representatives. maybe that changed yesterday afternoon. no one has ever accused mitch mcconnell of not being able to handle the politics of the senate. he is the ultimate sort of insider, meaning that he knows the inside game and he knows how