and get law enforcement and the white house together to avoid the kind of fights we re now having hopefully on a bipartisan basis we can lower the tension and reduce the lawsuits. bill: is that possible? i think it s important the trump administration is crystal clear what its policy is, vis a vis illegal immigrants and who are they targeting, who is being deported and how many are being deported. they need to be as transparent as possible so there s not needless worry in immigrant communities. bill: thank you very much, gentlemen. back to shannon in washington. shannon: bill, president trump calling out conservatives in congress tweeting minutes ago blaming the freedom caucus for the health care defeat. bill: and a tragedy. women return from a church retreat in texas and a congregation in mourning saying
dual message is supposed to but i think it s an important one. it s an effort right now to almost spook the freedom caucus back into line as they try and attack what is a very ambitious agenda going forward, kate. phil, great reporting. thank you so much. let s get some reaction to this. joining me now is republican congressman from virginia, dave brat, a member of the house freedom caucus. congressman, thank you so much for joining me. you bet, kate. great to be on. thank you so much. you ve seen the tweet. you heard phil mattingly s reporting. are you spooked by the president? no, i think whoever s advising him, has his ear right now we all ran in the freedom caucus on exactly what president trump ran on, right? cleaning the swamp, repealing obamacare. the bill in front of us doesn t fully repeal, so we can have that debate, but the polling for the bill right now is at 17% of the american people, right? we can do better than that, and we are all getting to yes for president
republican agenda if they don t get on the team and fast. we must fight them and democrats in 2018. asked to respond to it, paul ryan says it s very understandable that the president is frustrated. he didn t really speak about the primary challenge element of it, but he did not contradict the president. nia, your take? yeah, i mean, this is where we are now. the president has moved from blaming democrats, calling chuck schumer losers. at some point, he also said he wanted to reach out to democrats. so here he is now fighting with his own party, especially saying that come 2018, some of the house freedom caucus folks can expect a primary challenge. i think the problem here is a lot of these sort of energy, conservative ideas about health care, money now, if you think about the koch brothers wanting to support a lot of these folks who stood up against this bill, i don t know how trump takes them on and also tries to get to a situation where they have enough votes to make this work in
obviously were driving the train on this, but we are going to work with congress on this, but i think the president as you ve heard through multiple times, the president has been very clear, this is a huge priority for him. something he feels very passionate about. ed: that s second sean spicer, saying president trump will take the lead on tax reform, but he doesn t seem to have history on his side. joining us now, charlie hurt, richard fowler, both fox news contributors. i want to start with you, we re just talking to john roberts a moment ago about this back and forth of the freedom caucus. i understand the president, his feelings are hurt, he s upset about the health care style because of the freedom caucus, but doesn t he need these folks
caucus, it s also moderate republicans. it s also that that bill had a 17% approval rating. so, again, i mean, i think we re seeing this sort of hardball, dealmaking sort of strategy, but it seems like a lot of it is just, you know, kind of spinning their wheels and it s not sure there s going to really be any movement, more just like motion. yeah. i mean, doug, part of it we can talk about the math, but i also want to talk about so, i asked one of the members of the freedom caucus about this tweet, if he sees it i mean, i don t know of another way to read it, other than it is a threat. but according to dave brat of virginia, he does not see what the president is saying as a primary threat in any way. what is the play here? is the freedom caucus respond well to threats? if you look at any recent history? yeah, i ve heard of dave brett. i worked to eric cantor, so dave brat is somebody i m familiar with. we didn t need to go there, doug, but i did want to come to you with th