votes kind of but we just didn t have the time. well, not from the mechanics of trying to get the votes up on capitol hill it doesn t. but i think the president believes that what they can do is continue to put pressure, continue to build momentum towards eventually having a vote. we are in this vicious cycle right now where you need to have a vote on obamacare in order to sort of keep the promise of repealing obama front and center for a base that is very animated over fulfilling that promise. so i think that s exactly what the president is trying to do is he s just trying to create some positive momentum and trying to put pressure on the folks up on capitol hill. is that what it is, paul, just positive moment you will? it s pathological lying. job low vits character, the pathological liar. he s married to morgan fair child. i am actually married to morgan fair child. it doesn t suit his purposes. this is what s bizarre about president trump. we all lie, okay, but he in this cas
idea of crowd size during the day or during the evening? you know, it really was just my own personal sebs to be honest with you. we had a couple different vantage points during the day. it seemed like a thousand, a couple thousand. later that number really began to swell. it seemed like therern 4,000 or 500 people here along the streets and the pris corded off these crowds to keep them separated from both trump supporters and from the convince center itself. stephanie gosk outside convention center. president also mentioned anti-farks the antifa yich faction from the podium tonight. a kind of mocking the group, showing up. they were, of course, in the news in charlottesville, as well. let s bring in annie carney who joins us from politico tonight. thank you for he being so
they know that there won t be real repercussions for them. they are white supremacists and fundamentally believe that this is their nation and there will be no consequences for them because it is theirs so we shouldn t belong. that means all the narmarginali troops. so we have to ask if this is the original sin of this nation and we have had sebs and flows where it has gone into the recesses. it has never gone away. i don t think that donald trump will solve the problem but he has to be fundamentally aware that he is the one who stoked the flames of this racial amnest. as we made progress over time donald trump is welcoming people. he said initially this is the silent majority. you can come out of the shadows and i will be here to support you and pay your medical bills. i want tobring you into the conversation. the president in his initial
chief foreign correspondent ring l engel is in paris. back with me my panel. richard, first to you. what is ahead for macron. talking about the reaction coming in internationally this morning, too. eporter: so macron will take office in about a week and he s now has a huge mandate. me didn t just defeat the far right rine le pen, he wiped the floor with her. there s a great sebs of relief among the 66% of voters who voted for him that france dodged a bullet. it is connected to europe, wants to say in the eu, continue its reputation as a country open to all and not the france of marine le pen which was perceived to be xenophobic as she wanted to close the borders, get out of
elizabeth warren. see, she got a good laugh at the end. she lit into the senate majority leader about coal jobs and health care, about veterans, and then she said if you can answer my question, i ll sit down and shut up like elizabeth warren, so she s clearly paying attention to what s happening in washington. after a stern look for most of that, mitch mcconnell gave her a chuckle. i think mitch mcconnell really understands how to weather these kinds of storms, and i think he is going to he understands that this is whether it s organized and paid for by the soros brothers, it s real in the sebs that there are a lot of people who are angry, but he is going to take his time while he has it. he has the senate majority. he has the house majority. he has the white house, and he is going to push through what he needs to push through for the time that he has left, and then if the tables turn, mitch mcconnell understands that the tables do sometimes turn. the seeds in that last quest