with us in america s newsroom and president trump tweeting. karl rove former white house deputy chief of staff and fox news contributor. how are you and good day to you, sir. this is what started the news today from the white house. donald trump tweeted this, the freedom caucus will hurt the entire republican agenda if they don t get on the team and fast. we must fight them and dems. do you want to take that on quickly and then i ll go to your piece on the wall street journal. they did him a great disservice in killing the process but i wish the president woul not engage. that s punching down. he ought to be focussed on other things. bill: it seems to be a strategy.
all of the public policy think tanks, et cetera. right, but the president did not mince any words. he didn t say i get it, i get it. he s not necessarily mentioning health care. he s very specifically mentioning 2018. no, i m getting with you. and newt gingrich a couple days ago, everybody is saying we saved the republican conference. when you put a bill on the floor that s at 17% favorable with the american people, we can do better than that, right? we d better that s what will botch it for the republican party. we re trying to help the republican party and the president by getting it right. the process was artificially short, right? three weeks to manage one-fifth of the economy. it s too short. you say you re working with the president. what is he missing here? because this does not look like a tweet written by anyone other than the president himself. right. he is not being told that our group is working with all of the other groups who, by the way, was a jailbreak,
of american counties. this is a problem. and the actuaries of the insurance companies are telling us it s just going to get worse. so, it s really important that we do something to fix this problem, and that s going to take us to continue to work to get consensus. and i m not going to put a timeline on it because i just want to make sure we get this done right. thank you very much, everybody. appreciate it. all right, you re listening right there to house speaker paul ryan and his weekly press conference. i understand the president s frustration. that s one headline from this. let s discuss right now what we heard from house speaker paul ryan and what it means with my panel. political commentator jen stocky, former communications director under president obama, cnn commentator and republican strategist doug high is here and political reporter nia-malika henderson. so, nia, just to refresh for our viewers, this is what the president tweeted and this is what paul ryan is being asked ab
ed: the revenue for that to help pay for tax reform. interesting because you mentioned, the speaker tried to sidestep this controversy with the president taking a shot on twitter at the freedom caucus. one member of the freedom caucus, took the bait. is this a negotiating tactic by the president? it s constructive and fifth-grade. ed: it s constructive and fifth-grade and i don t give into bullies. more quickly, he needs the republicans on tax reform. jenna: we are all together, we need to be stronger than ever and thursday, maybe not.