subsequent victory, in areas where maybe ideologically it wasn t as much as a slam dunk in terms of the obamacare, the way they were able to win is by getting the votes of independents on the process ground. the idea that right. it was, you know, scott brown was able to win in a state that obama had carried by 26 points a little over a year earlier in early 2010 and a lot of the focus was the idea of the sort of washington behind closed door backroom dealing. right. they d be able to kind of say, of course, i want to, you know, ensure that everyone has decent health coverage but i want to do it in a bipartisan way with real open process, and that was, i think the democrats are probably going to be able to do the same sort of thing against republicans next year. and julie, every time that anyone recalls anything from the aca, when you talk about scott brown, that was in november, you talk about those angry speeches that happened on the floor about
the process, those were in january, february, march. a year in. i mean, have you ever seen legislation of this magnitude on this subject year undertake this trajectory process wise ever? no, never. i ve stood out i ve saw a lot of closed meetings in the capitol and office buildings but never seen a bill done this way. i ve never seen a bill that actually creates more losers than winners. often you get bills that create winners and losers but this really is a bill that helps far fewer people than it would hurt and i think the republicans know that that s what they re resulting in. that is the fundamental issue here. phil klein, julie rovner, thank you both. thank you. up next, why republicans are being so secretive about what should be their biggest legislative achievement. steve schmidt on the unprecedented hidden process in the senate health care bill after this two-minute break. and i couldn t wait to get my pie chart. the most shocking result was that i m 26% native americ
well, there s a lot of strange things up here in this swamp, let me assure you. people are watching, they re saying to themselves, look, obviously you feel strongly that the affordable care act s a bad deal for americans, there are lots of people who feel that way on capitol hill. you know, you show the cards. you have markups, hearings, say this is legislation we re going to produce, you go out, make the argument. that process has been so lacking on the senate side, it leaves a lot of people scratching their head about what they re hiding. i tell you, my job is to represent southwest florida and be the best republican member i can be. i think we did a good job of a transparent process there were a lot of amendments, a lot of changes were made. there was no secrecy. and i m fully comfortable with the work that the house did for the american people. the funniest part about this, they re going to make you vote on the senate bill. you realize that, right? they re going to bring th
where maybe ideologically it wasn t as much as a slam dunk in terms of the obamacare, the way they were able to win is by getting the votes of independents on the process ground. the idea that right. it was, you know, scott brown was able to win in a state that obama had carried by 26 points a little over a year earlier in early 2010 and a lot of the focus was the idea of the sort of washington behind closed door backroom dealing. right. they d be able to kind of say, of course, i want to, you know, ensure that everyone has decent health coverage but i want to do it in a bipartisan way with real open process, and that was, i think the democrats are probably going to be able to do the same sort of thing against republicans next year. and julie, every time that
discussed why, many experts say it was not a good idea. remind people what was in the letter. the october letter said e-mails were discovered and would be reviewed regarding the investigation of hillary clinton. republicans at the time seized on it as information the investigation was reopened. we know it was not formally reopened and ultimately found no wrongdoing was done. there was a rush process to do that ee mail review. that october 28 letter is the heart of page 2 of deputy attorney general rosenstein s analysis of why jim comey should be fired. now, presidents have the right to change their mind, as we all do. but it would be we would be, i think, remiss if we didn t add the context that that letter was seized upon and welcomed. the view of donald trump the candidate and his advisor at the time was not, that that was grounds for removing director comey, but rather it was celebrated at campaign rallies. it was welcomed as a new piece of evidence or truth that should be inc