personally, don t you think? leland: it has happened in the past. thank you. here to take a closer look at donald trump s speech, the president of american encore, sean noble and radio show host robert tello. thanks for being here. i want to get you on this, robert, you re a civil rights lawyer your self. so much of the defense of the national anthem protests, it is a first amendment right. where is the disconnect in that defense because it is not a first amendment right. the nfl is not a government organization, there is no first amendment right to keep your employment or make a political statement when you are in uniform whether you work for an nfl team or work for fedex and where a make america great act. one thing we have to realize is to cut trait on the protest and not the reason for the
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to reconsider that s fundamentally not true. in a much different way. i think sean now will probably have to anytime that it was admit that it was a curious political strategy by the republicans. elizabeth: sean, i wanted to talk about that later, but you brought up 2018 so, sean, i want to let you respond. yeah. i think it s not necessarily curious strategy. the strategy is to use reconciliation to take the first step in repealing obamacare. this isn t going to happen in reconciliation. they re then going to go to regular process to do other reforms that are necessary to completely root this thing out. but this is far from being an election issue at this point. remember, the democrats passed a bill in 2009, in october or november of 2009, and celebrated it. then the senate passed a bill on christmas eve, a draft bill really. and then after they lost the scott brown seat or the ted kennedy seat to scott brown in january of 2010, they went to reconciliation.
endeavor while the only true benefit that any republican can talk about is that it gives tax cut to the wealthy. elizabeth: all right, sean if that s the senate plan, then sure, they can stick with this crew of 12 and achieve that same end. i certainly hope that s not the case. elizabeth: sean, i want to give you the last word. we did have representative rooney from south florida who said that initial omb report was completely false, so there are some voices that say we re going to be seeing a much more positive cbo score this go around, but i m going to go ahead and give you the last word. i think that we ll see a better score. i think that this is the beginning of the process. this is far from over. and for the democrats to be spiking the football saying we re going to win the majority over this, it s really premature for that. elizabeth: gentlemen, thank you so much. we ll be sure to have you back, because this debate is not going anywhere. thank you, gentlemen. thank you. e
we will make sure we know what our bill costs. reporter: special budget rules allow the senate to pass health care with just 51 votes, but republicans probably need some help from democrats. republicans have the majority in the senate, but it s not as big as what they have in the house. elizabeth? elizabeth: all right. allison barber reporting live, thank you so much. for more, let s bring in sean noble and blake rutherford who served on hillary clinton s finance team in philadelphia. blake, i think i know what your response is going to be, so i m going to toss this first question to sean. sean, we saw a big celebration in the rose garden this week. jumping the gun a little bit on that? i don t know if it s jumping the gun as much as it s sending a message to the supporters of repealing obamacare that we ve takennen the first step and that this process is now underway. i think they needed to do it because there was some concern from the base that they weren t going to do it. they,