trump cannot afford to have. i mean, the notion that, as he said in his tweet, will be fighting the freedom caucus and dems then begs the question, who will he not be fighting? at a certain point he will have to build coalitions. underpinning all of that is the base of the republican party which the house freedom caucus is very much connected in. i know he feels betrayed by them but as raul labrador tweeted, we are your friends, it s these other people who are leading you astray with bad legislation. does labrador have a point? he does, but who would have guessed that the republican party would be the big tent? look at the democratic party, they re much more cohesive. is that majority versus minority? boehner once told me that getting the republicans handled is like try to get a wheelbarrow across the floor full of frogs and not letting a frog jump out
he s totally alienated the media. that s why there s no fear because everybody knows that the next news organization is going to support when yhe goes after you and insults you. amy wrote about this, the house freedom caucus, conservative republicans know their district better than president trump does. steve bannon and president trump were of the belief that they understand what the voters are after more, but in fact, many of the people carried their districts by wider margins than the president himself did. that s one of the fundamental problems. the democrats are excited and base their base is so enthused. president trump has been great for enthusiasm on the democratic side and a lot of the republicans do not fear him because again as rob it said they know their districts better. but if he gets the economy going, all bets are off. there you go. we ll pause the conversation here. we re on the other side of to
mitt romney, rick perry and marco rubio and the president of foundation for research on equal opportunity. what do you think about what we just heard from the vice president that they re going to take this second round of repealing and replacing obamacare? well, i can tell you what s happening, there are conversations going on behind the scenes in the house of representatives in the senate, in the white house, and between those different institutions trying to see if they can forth a deal that can get this bill out of the house. it can t get out of the house without some meaningful modifications, the freedom caucus has said what they want now it s up to the leadership and the moderates to see if they want to agree with that. basically everybody s going to have to go to the right if this is going to happen? not necessarily. i mean, one of the things that i ve been writing about at forbes and elsewhere is that there are ways to tweak this bill such that moderates can get what s imp
kind of spending reform early in this presidency. paul: fiscal hawks but this took a trillion dollars out of federal spending and now it s back in. it s back in. you are giving huge tax cut and there are all kinds of tax cuts. this was a conservative bill that the conservatives killed for being insufficiently conservative but this is right this is what they wanted to do on health care for the entire obama presidency. paul: right now they have to basically get the moderates in the middle who were put off by some of the changes that the freedom caucus insisted on and the freedom caucus to insist otherwise they don t have a majority in the house. yeah, the real problem here is that the original bill was what a compromise looks like. the moderates didn t like this or that element but they would have been there in the end. when you pulled it so far to the right, it just alienated the
the notion that he said in the tweet will be fighting the free dam caucus and democrats then says who will he not be fighting, the moderate republicans? oh, wait, he went after charlie den of the tuesday group. at a certain point he has to build coalitions and underpinning that is the base of the republican party and the house freedom caucus is very much connected in. i know he feels betrayed by them. but as raul labrador tweeted, he said we are your friends. it s the other people who are leading you astray. with bad legislation. doesn t labrador have a point? he does. but who would have guessed that the republican party would be the big tent. look at the democratic party they re much more cohesive and the republicans are the big tent. is that minority versus majority? boehner once said that getting the republicans is like trying to get a wheelbarrow across the floor and not letting a frog jump out of it and now trump has the wheelbarrow. if you talk to nancy pelosi about how