we re going to get it. it s time for me to see the hard for me to see the bill passing this week. i see it as an important step. if you stop doing this repeal which is trump care, we ll sit down with you and make it better. i will say we thought we were playing it the right way. obama knew about russia a long time before the election and did nothing about it. nobody wants to talk about that. what is clear is we have a president who is cozy with president putin. good morning. brianna keilar is here. good to be here. we begin with growing opposition to the senate health care bill. party leaders are pushing for a vote this week. forget about the democrats who are certainly resisting. you have five gop senators who are against it. now you also have the trump administration vowing that there
he tweeted republican senators are working very hard to get there with no help from the democrats. not easy. perhaps just let o care crash and burn. it s not just democrats that are in trump s cross hairs. america first is targeting the republicans who have come out against the senate health care bill. the message to all republicans get in line or else. the republican repeal remains one of the most unpopular pieces of legislation, however, in decades. in a scathing opinion piece montell williams has a dire speech. in his victory speech trump promised to lift up the forgotten men and women of this country. instead, under trumpcare they ll be left to die. montell williams, there he is. robert costa, national political reporter for the washington post. robert costa, you on the track touting here. i don t see in the world with collins already having walked and four or five other republican senators saying
doesn t mind this thing dieing. i think he doesn t mind going to plan b, which is the health care bill we have now, obamacare will have whatever weaknesses they have he ll work on those. he ll watch the system deteriorate, weaken, die in some place through lack of insurers. he ll say, it s the democrats. he can get away with it. the reason why, when obama came up with his health care plan, the affordable care act, this is being called obamacare. ryan care, mcconnell care. if it fails, it s not on him. it s not trump care. this is the failure of the democrats because the democrats should be all over calling this nothing but trump care. trump care. you about they won t do it. i think that s an oxymoron, by the way, trump care. thank you. thank you for reporting. last week president trump accused republicans of passing a tax cut, not a health care bill. president trump was asked about
clarence, hearing what the two experts have said, medical in the medical field, the politics of it, i don t know that that is what the opposition, the democrats or those that oppose have tried to sell this and there are four gop senators that have said they will not vote for the bill, but wouldn t that be in your estimate a better sales in terms of those that want to sell opposing this bill, that we re actually talking not about obama against trump, obamacare against trump care, we re talking about what s going to really preserve people s lives and preserve their health. isn t that a better kind of argument to make to the american public? i would say if you re really interested in improving the health of the american public and providing better healthcare, yes, but our debate has become so polarized, this is not a new
going to work with republicans on dismantling an important piece legislation that they used up their political capital to make happen in the first place. heller is left of where the other four senators would go right about where they are on trump care. does he make an easy open for democrats to begin with? i think democrats absolutely acknowledge that there are fixes that are necessary in the bill and i think that certainly if there were reasonable republicans who wanted to fix obamacare as it currently stands to ensure that people are not paying more and getting less, as they would be getting with this current bill, which is not a health care bill, it s a tax cut bill. i think we need to be really clear on what this bill actually does versus what obamacare actually does. i think if republicans were reasonable, certainly democrats would come to the table but