resort. ny reaction to what senator mccain dealing a big blow to their hopes to repeal tg obamacare? reporter: it s a big blow indeed. and senior white house said it undeniably hurts the effort but still hoping to get to 50 votes saying the president sntd giving up after seven years of promises. says the president is going to be pushing senators on this repeal effort over the weekend. meanwhile we are seeing increasingly war of words between two leaders president trump and kim jong-un. trump calling kim rocket man and a mad man. and kim calling the president a rogue, a beggangster, and a dot which means an old senile lunatic. it s an escalating war of words with no end insight. president trump tweeting this morning, kim jong-un of north korea who is obviously a mad man, who doesn t mind starving or killing his people, will be
that is just the first step then they have to actually draft a new piece of legislation. if they were going to put this bill on there then they could try again for this new budget measure that would also significantly use that. it allows them to avoid a filibuster in the senate meaning they could pass it of just republicans in the senate but the problem is this. republicans wanted to use that budget procedure for tax reform which is another centerpiece of the president s own domestic agenda. now that they will have a choice do they want to try again and potentially fail or do they give up on this repeal effort and focus on tax reform, something that will be difficult to achieve within their own party. a lot of questions going forward not being able to pass health care. it takes away a key thing and they promised their own vote rs they would do.
high arks, 4%tohis response to the hurricanes. do you think the president deserves credit here? well, i think first of all, polls are polls. and i look at what s been going on. and i was supportive of the negotiation that was made, of course, with senator schumer and leader pelosi and the president to stop the government from shutting down by doing something about the debt ceiling as well as what we were doing with the budget. i think that was a good thing and that was an agreement across the aisle. where i did differ, of course, is the fact that instead of allowing these bipartisan negotiations to go on to fix the affordable care act, we re now heading into another repeal effort. let me does you a quick question on that before i let you go, on graham-cassidy, do you think democrats were caught flat-footed here, this latest republican push, did it catch you by surprise? that was out there for a while. i think what was really surprising you had that dramatic speech by senator mcc
mcconnell handle this? march forward? know the hits are coming? mcconnell s is pretty shrewd and doesn t care as much as most politicians about whether people on morning joe say nice things about him. but he will care if the idea of supporting him becomes as toxic as it does for some democrats with nancy pelosi. he is now that question haunted democrats running, are you going to support nancy pelosi np speaker of the house is now a question republican candidates in the senate have to deal with now, right? absolutely. i think, again, as you said at the very beginning, two different parties. the party of trump and congressional republicans with different ideas. mcconnell had said that in terms of obamacare that the repeal effort, over. move on. now going to come in next week with a vote. it s difficult. he s going to have to negotiate, accommodate the president and some of his own interests and ideas, but i think so far he s willing to negotiate. if he s able to get 50 votes fo
hearing repeal and replace obamacare. for seven years hearing how bad obamacare is. i think there s tremendous support for it. i think it s actually much better than the previous shot. just before mr. trump spoke we saw the obama in obamacare rip in to this latest repeal effort. when i see people trying to undo that hard-won progress for the 50th or 60th time with bills that would raise costs or reduce coverage it is aggravating. and all of this done without any demonstrable economic or actuarial or plain common sense rationale, it frustrates. meanwhile, democrats are looking at ways to gridlock the senate beyond repair in order to stop this effort. democrats considering using any proposal tools to run out the clock on this? do everything to protect