white house, can a white house survive with a steve bannon, reince priebus, steven miller and jared at the same time, or does one team have to go? i mean, it s a good question. it s really anybody s guess. i think jared s point of view, you know, he s always been within the family business. it s a very insular kind of environment. it s almost a bubble. it could be a surprise to him that actually in the white house, there are competing power centers. when he criticizes other white house officials, they have their own allies. they have their own power bases. and they re going fight back. you know, that s it s a big difference from being having a hand in glove relationship he had withrunning the businesses.
to be shoved around. so especially on this, we re not going to allow him to hold the american people, the american health care system hostage and negotiate under those terms. now, if he wants to improve the affordable care act, we re all in. yep. it is a co-equal branch of government. i think donald trump might be learning some civics 101 in his 84 days as president. thank you very much. appreciate it. thank you. let s bring in jonathan cohn who covers health care for the huffington post. jonathan, i think that last point is very important. you have senators who have their own egos. they have their own power bases. it s not as if they re going to respond to bullying. but more than that, they couldn t get blamed according to the new polling if health care goes awry. it s not democrats who would take the blame. it would be donald trump and republicans. kaiser health did a poll. 61% say the president and republicans in congress are now in control of the government. they re respons
co-equal branch of government, as though we re sort of a subcontractor in a real estate deal that he wants to stiff, it s one of the reasons that he s been such a failure so far as a president, is he doesn t understand that we have three co-equal branches of government and that the legislature the legislative branch is not going to be shoved around. so especially on this, we re not gointo allow him to hold the erican people, the american health care system hostage and negotiate under those terms. now, if he wants to improve the affordable care act, we re all in. yep. it is a co-equal branch of government. i think donald trump might be learning some civics 101 in his 84 days as president. thank you very much. appreciate it. thank you. let s bring in jonathan cohn who covers health care for the huffington post. jonathan, i think that last point is very important. you have senators who have their own egos. they have their own power bases. it s not as if they re going to respond
this goes to the inner workings of the white house and goes to the fact that there is not that one strong person leading everybody, that there are five, six, and i think the new york times reported this weekend bob, you know this. five, six different sort of power bases there and sometimes people don t talk to each other. i m making no apologies for the white house. i m saying they are condemned for being the most pro-israeli administration in some time even talking about moving to the capitol to jerusalem. it s hard to believe that somebody dau agaiidn t ga staffer dropped the ball and didn t want to admit it. there are real consequences for everyone single word that comes out of the white house. they need somebody with a little bit of white house
an exciting part of the job. dan, exciting part of the job, twitter, or dangerous part of the job? i mean do you think he s going to tweet as president, first of all? oh, i think absolutely he s going to tweet as president. i think he s going to send signals through twitter. the question is whether he s going to be able to move the process. i mean the campaign is not the same as washington politics. washington politics is very complicated. there are a lot of competing power bases. there are the congressional leadership, there s the congressional chairmen, subcommittee chairmen. there are private interests, there are the lobbies in washington, there are buick kra bureaucracie bureaucracies. this is all very hard to push. i think he ll use the twitter account to lean on them but he ll have to do much more politicking than he s ever done in his life to make any progress with those power bases in washington. we ve got to give him some credit for the twitter. a lot of us in the me