even the third time. this past week with grah graham/cassidy. to legal cause health care and his hand-picked candidate in alabama on the same day, what does this mean for his maneuverability going forward and his relationship with the president? well, i think it raises the stakes for the importance of passing tax reform, which we re going to see an announcement from both mcconnell and ryan and a speech from the president a few hours from now. look, republicans have not had a big legislative win so far this year. heading into 2018, voters aren t going to care, you know, whether or not congress is obstructing or working with president trump. what they re going to look at and say, what have you actually done to help me and improve my daily life? and if congress, both the congress and the senate don t have a specific win and a victory to point to, i think it could be real trouble. so i think what it s going to do, it s really going to, again, up the ante for both leader mcconnell and spe
the obamacare, mike pen when he was governor at the time was complaining about that, and now you have the republicans doing the same thing. pot calling the kettle black. what s that saying where you stand where you sit and now the republicans have position in power and they re doing it in secret. if the voters aren t happy with the package they put out it s going to be a problem in the midterms. they better figure out before the senate takes this thing to the president and passes whatever bill they re going to pass, they have to be able to say this is going to be significantly better than obamacare and the people that are going to vote for them are going to have to buy into it. david, i want to bring this to a vote before he got the numbers right and they want to get it back to the house as quickly as possible. i think it s going to a vote. and to the secrecy points we seem to acknowledge and tactfully. it s done him an advantage, this
media? it has certainly occurred to me because we re all chasing our tail on that statement, right, in the aftermath of what he said. but what s the upside? why would he want comey and now the public to believe that he s rolling tape in the oval office, something that presumably hasn t been done since the nixon era. i can t understand it. what s next? smerconish my 11-year-old son thinks comey s firing is fishy. too bad trump voters aren t as smart as a six grader. let me make something clear. there was legitimate reason to fire james comey. it s the timing. legitimate reason to fire him previously. but what was fishy, to your son s word choice, was trying to say it s all because of this memo from rosenstein on may the 9th. that strains credulity. comey you can have a legitimate debate and his handling of the
somewhere a strong advantage in wisconsin and illinois but there are several other tossups including new hampshire and pennsylvania which have been close since the beginning of the cycle but red states are in play after donald trump has struggled. that includes north carolina, indiana, missouri. those are tossups and one seat where there s a major trump impact is a seat in nevada. the one vacated by democratic leader harry reid the republican running for the seat has aligned himself with trump but he s rescinded his endorsement and core republican voters aren t happy about that, they re threatening to vote against him so that shows how difficult of a line it is for republicans to walk in these top senate races. manu, thank you. thank you very much. just a quick reminder to all of you, any minute now we will take former vice president al gore who will be speaking after he s introduced by hillary clinton on the stage in miami. the campaign honing in and
a comprehensive reform effort if there are cuban-americans who are newly engaged in that fight? i don t see marco rube why or jeb bush going out much farther on a limb on immigration than they have and relative to how their party or the grassroots or the intelligencea of the talking heads ru vee form. both have advocates for a pathway to residency or citizenship and called for other more significant changes we don t talk about a lot. the matter of cuba the newer cubans coming over who become voters aren t voting republican anyway to those older cuban-americans who got established before 1980 or generally born in cuba. generational divides are the name of the game. politico s mark caputo thanks for your time mark. you re welcome. thanks for having me. that is all for now. the ed show is coming up next.