obamacare. with republican legislation. trump now issuing a threat on twitter this morning. take a look at this. the president tweeting out, 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 in to 2018. the house freedom caucus, very conservative wing on the republican side, now as much in the eyes of trump the enemy as the democrats at least if they don t get behind his agenda. sean spicer, white house spokesman, suggesting that house members may still fall in line. there s a few members of the freedom caucus prior to last friday s vote and since then who is expressed a willingness to want to work with him, rather than necessarily as a bloc. and i think that there continues to be some promising signs in that with with that. so, again, i think part of it is i think people are more concerned with voting as a bloc,
it only took about a half a heartbeat for member to tweet back it didn t take long for the swamp to drain donald trump. jim jordan who is one of the founders of the freedom caucus was more diplomatic this morning saying the white house should in panic. listen to what he said a short time ago. this is our best chance, but not this build. it was just a postponement. people are acting like the sky is falling and the world is going to end. this guy came up today, it will again tomorrow. let s take time to get this three thing right. a lot of issues on the table that the president made a big part of his campaign, things
doesn t accomplish that and why we re trying to change it. shannon: ted poe said he s exiting the caucus. he thought this was your best chance for getting rid of obamacare. best chance but not this bill. it s just a postponement. the sun came up today. it will come up tomorrow. let s take more time it get it right. the only thing worse than not doing something is doing the wrong thing. i ve talked to ted, he s a friend but we have a difference of opinion on how to accomplish what the american people elected us to do. shannon: jim jordan, always good to talk to you. bill: senator richard burr the chairman of the senate intelligence committee the republican from north carolina began his opening statement and senator warner from virginia and part of richard burr s statement had to go with we are all targets of a sophisticated
to 20% through 2020. that s not good for the forgotten man back home. and when you have the federal government in charge of one-fifth of the economy, that s not draining the swamp. so, we all ran on exactly the themes the president ran on. we re with him, but someone s gotten into his ear. and yesterday, right, two days ago, the senate also i can t believe this wasn t covered by the news republican leadership in the senate said they re not going to repeal obamacare in this process. it was covered. it was covered. we covered it. i promise you we did. i know, but that s huge, right? let me ask you this all of this is huge. you say you re with him, you re with the president. yes. you read this tweet, congressman, it does not look like the president is with you. he says, the freedom caucus is going to hurt the entire republican agenda if they don t get on the team and fast. we must fight them and democrats in 2018. do you take that as a threat? no, i don t take it as a
republicans would be tempted to go for a far more hard edged conservative than gorsuch is. at that will be a self-inflicted wound by the democrats. martha: indeed. i also want to put up a tweet from president trump earlier today. he really went after the freedom caucus. he says. the freedom caucus will hurt the entire republican agenda if they don t get on the team, & fast. we must fight them, & dems, in 2018! what do you think of the message he sent them today? the kind of thing you do when you are deadlocked in a real estate deal and you want to scare the pgb s out of the other side. it doesn t work in politics. these guys in the freedom caucus are in very secure receipts. they are also ideologically, philosophically serious people who believe and they oppose the president on principle. it was not a political move. in fact, it would have been a