end to the latest effort, the fifth, sixth, seventh eighth who knows where they re at. but republicans haven t figured out how to bridge their divide. it came at the end of a long day, a day that had a hearing on the bill, that had pr protesters who were chanting and had to be arrested by capitol police, kind of a visceral reaction to the bill and a way to under score the opposition around it. and you can look at the cbo bill around it, saying only 20% supported it, and of that group only 46% of republicans supported the bill. again all underscoring why this has been so difficult up to this point. there hasn t been an announcement they are putting an end to the process. aids telling me mitch mcconnell wants to talk to his entire conference before making a
thanks for staying with us. let s look at the issue of health care in america. where are republicans pressing on with an apparently doomed health care bill that many people don t seem to want, including some in their own party, and why can t they get it right after seven years of vowing to repeal and replace obamacare? i think the first answer is they boxed themselves into a corner by saying, for those seven years, look as soon as we get power we re getting rid of the affordable care act. i think some republicans are committed to scrapping obamacare and coming up with a system which hands over more of the burden, more responsibility to the states. but i think others were politically tied to this. the question of why they continue to pursue it, you know, when you re in a poker game and you have to either fold your hand or stay in and double your bet quite often you try to bluff
welcome back, everyone. calling someone an s.o.b. used to be unpresidential. but now, thanks to president donald trump that phrase has a lot of people talking. reporter: it used to be that a president like lbj would say phrases like s.o.b. in private conversations never to be heard publically. but this son of a real es stay or the developer spit it out with gusto. get that son of a bitch out of the feel. the nfl sen it right back. as an african-american man one of those son of bitch.
important symbolic moment on top of others. remember we re only six weeks away from charlottesville and the perceived failure of trump to call out white supremacists over the violence. so now you have this counter point with trump standing away from white supremacists on that issue, but then deliberately firing up this issue which does have racial elements in it, in a speech in my hometown, hun huntsville, alabama. he picked a fight and there s no reason to do it, collin kaepernick had been blacklisted and is not playing in the nfl. but the president decided to comment and the players responded because they were feeling like they were being denied freedom of speech. president trump says this has nothing to do with race. he also says there s been a