in the white house right now. i just maybe he is being ill advised, i don t know. but i do know that when he speaks, hes did not speak from the basis of knowledge. connell: all right. for more on all of this, let s bring alana shore in she covers congress for politico. thank you for joining us tonight. we appreciate it. >now, thepresident went rogue ss nancy pelosi. so, i guess all the goodwill of chuck and nancy is out the window here. what happened? well, to be clear, that goodwill started to fly out the window when the president earlier last week began saying you know what? that deal i struck with chuck and nancy it wasn t really a deal. i do want something for my border wall. what happened on friday with healthcare and with iran was really just a final straw for democrats. the flirtation with bipartisan appears to be over u. connell: other side of it from the white house s point of view is we know and we have known for some time the president is to put it mildly from us strait
they would like to see that rescheduled. so there s more faith in what s going over on the senate side. the senate committee conducting an investigation. we re expecting to hear the chairman and vice choirm airmane hear about who the witnesses wille. we know jared kushner, for example, thepresident s son-in-law, expected to testify arivate meeting, be interviewed by the senate intelligence committee. they may end up feeling like they need to look over to the senate instead. chris? we re going see something very different at 2:30. kasie thank you. thank you. oh, we have melania trump.
out from the caucus members that thepresident might be oh open to negotiation. i think , obviously, the president has the whole power of the white house and i think it s one that we know more than most. he could command control on the conversations with a conventionalmedia , alternative twitter and things like that ã she really has a lot of messaging power behind him and support from people . this is a president who made his career off the art of the deal. will he ultimately shift and decide that maybe we could have more negotiation? that could take the wind out of the sale and put it back into a negotiation. he doesn t have ownership of the name. no one wants to call it trump care. they are calling it obamacare light or obamacare light or even ryan care because of his lengthy address. what you call it? i don t call it anything.
so-called judges. he will do that on saturday morning so the swirl continues. for thepresident, winning a war against cnn s 10:00 show or the latest the new york times story is the way he judges whether he is a success or a failure. does he know he is only helping cnn? does he know he is only helping the new york times ? i don t think he does. but he. his 2017 will be judged by does he pass either tax reform or repeal and replace obamacare. not for him. that is what history will judge and congressional republicans will judge. the biggest thing about yesterday his passes of passing health care reform was set back yesterday. people on capitol hill view what happens no longer are the tweets and the attacks and the pettiness and the lies a side show, he made them the main event. willie has some news. i m looking at. we can report this now. senior white house official has
trump promised mexico would pay for the wall. the administration voted the idea for a 20 percent tax on all mexican imports and they later walked it back. president trump and president nieto met last week but that was canceled over the dispute. take a listen. to that end, thepresident of mexico and myself have agreed to cancel our planned meeting scheduled for next week . unless mexico is going totreat the united states fairly , with respect, such a meeting would be fruitless and i want to go a different route. we have no choice. president trump says the call wentwell . the 20 percent tax on all imported goods would hit companies more than it would mexico. it passes them on to consumers so take a look at the