capitol hill reporter for politico. rachel, thanks for joining us. happy to be here. gillian: over the summer president trump issued a essentially a warning to gop leadership. he said if you fail to get obamacare repealed and replaced or at least fail to make headway, i m going to forge ahead without you. is that what is happening now? is that what these overtures to senator schumer are about? yeah. i think 100% that is what he is doing right now. i think, you talk republicans on the hill publicly, they want to tackle repeal and replace next year but privately it is about as likely as the browns winning the super bowl, right? the president is reaching into a new playbook. there are new strategies. executive orders, rolling back obamacare regulations on birth control so that companies and insurance groups do not have to provide birth control. also we re hearing talk about potentially executive orders that will allow people to purchase insurance across state