washington post poll. in a survey from nbc news and wall street journal, 40% approve of the job he s doing, the lowest approval rating of any u.s. president in his first 100 days since polling began. what is the president planning to do about it? take a look at what he has perhapsed for his week a lot. on top of all this, he says he will announce his tax reform plan on wednesday and he s pushing congress to come up with an obamacare replacement and agreeing on a spending bill by friday. let s talk more about this with our panel joining me, democratic strategist jonathan and alice stewart. a senior administration official tells cnn last less pressure from the white house to repeal and replace obamacare by this week. smart move? i think so. it s certainly the first time you learn you don t put a time line on something important. we did hear in terms of the house gop members we had the moderate members of the gop, the
american aircraft carrier that one department says is heading toward north korea, the korean peninsula, and yet it actually turns out they were heading to the indian ocean, that s not a great moment. that s why i wind up giving the president a c for the week. martha: that was not a president tell mike a that was not a good moment. i went to high school, there was no great inflation. there s a lot of that going around there is not going around in kristen s gradebook. richard, what do you think? i don t believe in great inflation. i give the president a c. what we heard late this week is the president saying that we are going to get health care done this week. he s letting the pressure of the first 100 days get in the way of actually passing a really good deal or fixing the affordable care act, right quick smack i think this president has huge challenges when it comes bringing the g.o.p. conference cap together, getting the tuesday group, which is the more moderate group together w
maybe getting more of what they want in this upcoming legislation but let s hear from a republican congressman rodney stone, he is a member of the tuesday group who is working on those negotiations with the freedom caucus. listen. i m not going to be for a plan that s going to allow for preexisting conditions to not be covered. waivers are going to be can be requested but that doesn t mean that they are going to be. and they are very limited in this discussion. and if that becomes a discussion point the key thing we lose sight over the fact that we are talking about covering preexisting conditions. so a comprehensive coverage is not mandated or a requirement or a part of the regulation for insurance companies that is the big question is will people with preexisting conditions have adequate insurance coverage. how do you see that squaring up? sure. and, look, ana, i know you spent
in august. so there is time to do these things, do them right and effectively so we can save health care and provide a new market system for health care and start growing the economy, which is the biggest reason for doing tax cuts. we ve got to get the economy growing. i hear what you re saying in terms of there is still time, no doubt about it. but you talk about health care. the president is the one who and the gop themselves are the ones who have been drumming up the talk and suggesting that they are trying to accomplish this sooner rather than later, perhaps before the 100-day mark. are they giving themselves a deadline that could be impossible to meet? well, realistically, they are trying to put together some changes in the plan that came out in early march. and they re working together with the moderate members, congressman mcarthur representing the tuesday group and the house freedom caucus is trying to find a balance to get the votes they need in the house. it s unlikely
president and for congress to show that they re working on it, they re working back and forth with each other, from what i understand, the tuesday group, and the freedom caucus, which will be the moderates and the assumer conservatives have been hammering out on the initiatives that kept them from coming together. if i were all three of them, i would just put my head down and keep working, you can t get the tax reform without the health care. here s the thing, alice, you heard what david said. they should now, there are bigger things that they should be doing, keeping the lights on. selena is saying, talking about the false deadline as well. this false red line. if we can put this quote up from politico. the multiple white house gop insiders say the white house doesn t understand how congress work. just because trump officials say there will be a vote next week doesn t make it so. it goes on to say that.