and fielding tough questions about health care and other issues from his south carolina constituents. nbc senior political editor beth was there. beth, what was the reaction from the constituents you were hearing? well, the constituents we spoke to were definitely relieved that the house plan had gone down. the house republican plan. they weren t super comfortable with senator graham who came out with a tweet yesterday saying collapse and repeal. basically he was saying he wanted the existing system. obama care, the affordable care act, to collapse under its own weight. then and, therefore, would bring people together to somehow come up with a new plan that other people could get behind. now, a lot of constituents had real concerns about that. they didn t want to see senator graham advocates the collapse of health care. when he came here and he was talking to constituents, he went into a little more detail with an attempt to sort of placate folks that had real worries about those twe
yesterday, and there wasn t a popular plan to do it with. sure. also there is no republican support when president obama forced this down americans throats seven years ago. it s something he did in the first three or four months of his administration. donald trump is going to get those done. evan, final word? i think it s insane to think that you can do the exact same thing more than once and expect a different result. if they re going to approach tax return reform without trying to reach across the aisle and not be held by the crazies in the house, they re going to be unsuccessful once again. thank you both for joining us. from msnbc, joy reid is next. have a perfect sunday.
is another day that america suffers. that s why the president worked tirelessly over the last several weeks to get congress to repeal and replace obama care. you saw his resolve to work with whoever he needed to work with, to call whoever he needed to call to get our plan across the finish line. yesterday wasn t a victory for the american people. it was a victory for the status quo in washington d.c. it was a victory for the disaster of obama care. i promise thank you that victory won t last very long. and according to the wall street journal , the white house is now proactively seeking to weaken obama care through waivers and rule changes, about ut the president said friday he is ready to move on to his next big agenda. tax reform. we ll probably be going right now for tax reform, which we could have done earlier, but this really would have worked out better if we could have had some democrat support.