response. only 16% approve of trump care. there s no connection between this president s popularity and the popularity of his policies which makes him very different from other presidents historically. it s fascinating the way you put it. it s different. democrats seize on whatever his latest comments are and say this is really bad or the worst. cornell your response. i don t disagree with my friend. i think it s a little more complicated. i think there s several variables. the very fact that he is out talking about and promoting such unpopular positions yet his favorability stays where it is with the base speaks to the disconnect with the issues. i want to i also want to understand help the viewers understand the context here as well. democrats are obsessed with
still strong. here we see, honest, 33%. cares about people like you, only 40%. strong and decisive, 47%. does that ever move if democrats do more what of you re talking about and less of the circus? it will definitely move. the reason trump supporters support him is because they see him as a bull in a china shop. he s a cultural figure. he s a tribal leader. they enjoy the show of seeing him going around breaking the china. however, the minute they suspect it s their china being broken, the support drops. the classic case was trump care. largely a cut for wealthy people, for corporations at the expense of working class people.
about a two-week transition here to help the general kind of get around and meet all of the different employees doing great work here. and i ll always be available. i m going to be on team trump all of the time. i ll always be out there trying to help the president. he s going to be on team trump. so charlie, explain why reince priebus fell out of favor. was it strictly about the skinny repeal and not going through? no. we ve been hearing for months that the president was not pleased with reince priebus and the rumors were that he was on the bubble long before trump care collapsed in congress this week. and so if not and anthony scaramucci was trying to push priebus out before that famous vulgar interview this week, before senator john mccain surprised with his vote to destroy trump care. that is not why. because he was not able ever to win the president s full favor, and because the white house was
he was trying to jam his own members to vote for a bill that is very unpopular, and then, when that failed, he was trying to jam them on a bill that would raise premiums 20% just to keep the process alive. that s how important republicans believe repealing and replacing obamacare is to their prospects in the 2018 midterm elections that they were willing to do all of these things just to get to the next step, and it all came crashing down and now they have to figure out what s next. i don t think they know. but it s all a window into what the original propositions problem was. it was that the idea is not just to repeal or replace, but to make better. if you re going to raise premiums and people are going to lose care. how is that better? even republicans had to own that. the there s a listen this was never called trump care. it s no the a good reason obamacare was called that because the president had a leadership role. here the president didn t seem
constructively. is there any way that you will work with republicans, as repeal and replace? is it off the table if it is repeal and replace, that you will work with republicans? well, we don t want to repeal the entire thing. we don t want to have these massive cuts in medicaid. we don t want to tell people with preexisting conditions they can t get help. we don t want to throw over 20 million people off their insurance. so, look, we will meet in the middle. absolutely, we will meet in the middle. do you care what it is called? do you care if it is called trump care or whatever, the american i don t care what it is called as long as the american people are able to get health care that is quality, that is affordable and doesn t discriminate against them if they have things like breast cancer. who cares what it is called? thank you for that. let me tell you, don. quickly because i want to move on. it is easy to posture when you think you can get your way. when you real