what you saw were significant divisions between republicans on health care policy. the reality of this is, the affordable care act requires these insurers to offer these essentially breaks on cost-sharing to lower income americans so what president trump did is he said look, congress needs to actually appropriate this money, congress never appropriated money for the cost-sharing subsidies so it is congress job which is why lamar alexander and patty murray deserve credit for engaging in these discussions. didn t the president take it further and say i don t support it even if congress moves that way that s why it s going nowhere now. the president initially said i like the idea of a bipartisan deal and then apparently he didn t. the reality is, the president is going to have to weigh in on this positively if it s going to get across the finish line with rirns republicans. his influence and measure of support for a bipartisan deal will be tremendously important to doing this. i thin