sulticated, i don t think you could get that person confirmed right now. at the end of the day, have you session who s is popular with trump s base and if you try to confirm someone new, i can almost guarantee you the trump base wouldn t like who they could get through. sessions staying around ultimately politically may be the best thing for the president even if he has short-term frustration. sessions isn t just popular with the president s base. is he also popular with the movement conservative base that didn t initially get on board with president trump. but did later. and he so he has a broad coalition of grass-roots support himself just in the attorney general. and dave, to a point kirsten made earlier, the justice department, he s doing things to indicate the agenda. i mean, it s not as if he s it may not get coverage every day but he s moving forward. tonight at the rally in youngstown, ohio, donald trump touted how tough the administration is being on sanctuary cities,
the wall street journal that it wasn t so much as a loyalty thing with sessions that he basically was attracted by the large crowds during the campaign in alabama and that s why he stood by the side of trump? anderson, i would tell you that what the president is doing is unbelievable but that s become a hacknied word. every day what he does is beyond belief. how do you appoint a guy who is a member of the united states senate make him attorney general and then undermine him and humiliate him? sessions and trumps views are very, very different than mine. many of his ideas as attorney general are disastrous. just very much the opposite of what i think we need in terms of criminal justice and immigration and so forth. but you don t treat a human being, somebody you have appointed to that position in this kind of humiliating way. and i think it sends a message to every member of trump s administration that you have an unstable guy at the top who turn
that s okay. you re devoted? i m devoted. true. reporter: and she is among many others just like her. the people who come to donald trump s rallies are among the most loyal portion of his base. do you think he should stop talking about hillary clinton and move on? lock her up. lock her up. reporter: this guy wants her locked up. i want her locked away. so tweet away. what i say is tweet away. as long as he gets his message across, that s all that matters. reporter: amid the loyalty and devotion, though, there is a difference of opinion between the president and some of his supporters about jeff sessions, the attorney general, has been very loyal to donald trump from the beginning. donald trump is tweeting about him, saying some things like he s shaming his attorney general, wanting him to step down. do you think that donald trump should get rid of jeff sessions? i personally like jeff sessions. i think he s doing a very good job. i think he s dedicated to what his j
amendments trying to make republicans vote on those types of things. the reality remains. there is no clear ends game right now. we re going to have to watch this play out. there s real concern and a real possibility that they don t have the votes when the this is all said and done. it s going to be a wild next 48 to 72 hours. fy, appreciate it. earlier i spoke with senator bernie sanders for his take on today s vote. senator sanders, based on what you saw today, president trump calling today s vote a big step forward, do you think the republicans are going to be able to repeal and replace obamacare in. anderson, he think i can say without any hesitancy there s nobody in the united states senate who has a clue what s going on or what will go on. what trump thinks is a great step forward is part of his belief that we should throw 22 million people off of health insurance, raise premiums for older workers and cut medicaid by $800 billion. that s not what the american people think is
greatness lately. and right now, they aren t producing much for the american people. both sides have let this happen. we keep trying to find a way to win without help from across the aisle. that s an approach that s been employed by both sides mandating legislation from the top down without any support from the other side with all the parliamentary maneuvers that requires. we are getting nothing done, my friends. we re getting nothing done. i voted for the motion to proceed to allow debate to continue and amendments to be offered. i will not vote for this bill as it is today. it s a shell of a bill right now. we all know that. phil mattingly joins me from capitol hill. what are you hearing from sources about how how republican leadership was able to pull this off today? a lot of policy promises. a lot of political assurances and some good old fashioned arm twisting. even this morning, president trump, vice president pence on