the way this bill cuts health care is heartless. the president said the house bill was mean. the senate bill may be meaner. the senate republican health care bill is a wolf in sheep s clothing. only this wolf has even sharper teeth than the house bill. sandra: senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says democrats are wrong. it s not like obamacare is working. democrats told us it would be wrong for the senate to actually address these problems in a serious way while the law they have defended for 7 years teeters, literally teeters on the edge of total collapse. they were wrong before, they are wrong again now. sandra: chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel and the middle of it all come alive from capitol hill.
sheep s clothing, only this wolf s teeth are even sharper than in the house bill. somewhere in america, mr. president, there s a family who takes a trip each friday to visit grandma or grandpa at a nursing home. who sacrificed all of their savings to pay for their health care until they had no more savings and now they rely on medicaid to help pay the cost of long-term care in the nursing home. somewhere in america, there is a father who is eaten up inside watching his son struggle with opioid addiction who knows in his heart that his son will be able to go on with a healthy and fulfilling life if he could only afford treatment to get out from under the devastating addiction. somewhere in america, there is a parent whose child has cancer.
overhaul. that was the discussion point during the break on that particular thing. first of all, i want to go to your first and ask to 1996, what happened? the marie: i don t have all the details on this, but i do know when i ve read but there was basically the same bill that passed in 1996 signed by president clinton that said immigrants could not get federally based benefits for 5 years. there were a few exceptions like kids getting immunizations which is a public health good. emergency disaster relief. the discussion here was hasn t been enforced and working and could get better? i m not an expert on that. if i could get better, i m open to ways that might happen, but the concept that president trump announced last night is on the books. harris: i was kidding when i said has it been working? what happens next? david: what happens is we need to have it codified and congress needs to get involved. a lot of times when laws are passed, you get into the
harris: the passion around this issue is huge. we so that playing out on the tom hall and i have got it literally in a hallway outside of mitch mcconnell s office. i know they were interviewing senators john thune on happening now about an hour ago. he could barely hear him. it s called the better care reconciliation act of 2017 . repugnance have to show how it would be better care. the message on this has to be really strong. you ve seen a couple of things recently that were impressive in terms of a consistency message from the republicans who have been tweeting about it, talking about it. the president again this morning talking about it after talking last night. he said people to the white house to talk about the flaws in the disruption in the lives and obamacare has caused from small businesses and families. that better care reconciliation act part, that title has to be walked out. it hit me when you are talk about nancy pelosi.
mother was running for president. i think it s bizarre. i ve said that many times on air and i think it s hurting her party. marie: i think, and i ve said this many times on air, i do not think hillary clinton as a future of our party and i would like her to be much less vocal. i m not sure she would take my calls right now. i think that our party speaking about what we are just talking about, nancy pelosi building on that, we need to figure out who the leaders are. one of the excuses pelosi supporters have used is that she is a great fundraiser. we are not hitting our fundraiser mark. we need leadership. that comes from people like joe crowley, tim ryan. harris: look at the example of georgia. it s not about the fundraising and the money, it s about the content of the message. and the ability for the messenger to reach the public without cussing at them. don t pretend like that s not offensive because it really is.