deinvolve in to heidi s point, it is going to be so important in the next round. isn t the whole strategy by jordan and meadows, in some ways is to make it a circus? that s it. because you know what happens when they are successful at that? we saw it with mueller. the public checks out. and what are you seeing right now is the numbers are moving against the president. they need a distraction to make it look like it s more the washington mess. can i just point out that no less than four or five years ago, it was trey gaudi who had the benghazi investigation who said over and over again it is so crucial that we be able to hold the first phase of this behind closed doors so that we can drill down on witnesses. so that witnesses aren t coordinating their testimony. and so that we don t have the showboating of members on either side who want to just parene for the cameras. well, i was just going to say we like to show receipts. i got a full screen.
day said they re deadlock. he said go back and deliberate more. so we re waiting. policy ping-pong to heidi, go. this mandate repeal that republicans have put into this bill is exactly the gift that democrats wanted, mika, as soon as the obamacare repeal debate went down democrats started running an ad that said, quote, never stop. because they wanted to make this argument that republicans will keep coming back at obamacare. and they think that health care is the top winning issue for them going into the midterm. so this is a christmas gift, but it is a gift to the democrats. yeah. again, we ll see what they do with it. speaking of democrats, coming up, senator elizabeth warren joins us for an exclusive live interview. plus, the top democrat on the house intelligence committee adam schiff. and republican congressman tom cole to give their take on the tax reform bill which suddenly is in jeopardy now that a key republican has announced his opposition to the bill. morning joe is