is the president considering allowing him to stay or leaf? should he keep his security clearance? i don t know of any changes that would be made. the president has confidence in jared. i m not aware of any changes at all. is it fair to say the president was blindsided last night when he found out, when senior staff found out? i m not going to get into the process piece. and the tick to be and the back and forth tick to be. our focus is on the repeal and replace not the process piece of it, i maing sure we get it done. can you confirm the president did tell lawmakers that they would look like dopes if they did not vote for repeal and replace? i m not sure, i will have to get back to you. the president to get republicans elected in 2018, he said he would be working very
said the republicans are going to sit down with senator schumer. he was suggesting that sitting down with democrats would be a sign for republicans failing to repeal obamacare. are congress and mcconnell on the same page whether or not they want to work with democrats? mcconnell seemed to indicate that was plan b. the president has said he s happy and willing to work with democrats on repealing and replacing obamacare. do you believe that s the way the process actually unfolded? in terms of democrats being unwilling to come to the table, yes. in terms of whether republican leaders have been open to democrats. i think democrats laid out very cleanly from the beginning of the process they were unwilling to come to the table and have that conversation. i want to ask you about iran, it s reported that the president
much more to that than just this conversation around contraception. well need to have a conversation about more important things than that. why does he want to talk about our libidos in the first place? he wasn t talking about your libidos. he was just using i as an example. he brought it up turkey, make the argument. that s what you want to talk. i don t want to talk about it. i would love to talk about minimum wage. i would love to talk about pay equity. i would love to talk about government helping out with child care. i would love to talk about a million different things that we don t get to talk about because every time republicans say they re going to change the subject, they can t change it. it s the very definition of looking at us as sex objects, michael. we don t. the democrats are the one who talked about this war on women that wasn t republicans talking about some war on women and getting into contraception and all of that. we didn t rally around and lift up sandr
place? he wasn t talking about your libidos. he was just using i as an example. he brought it up turkey, make the argument. that s what you want to talk. i don t want to talk about it. i would love to talk about minimum wage. i would love to talk about pay equity. i would love to talk about government helping out with child care. i would love to talk about a million different things that we don t get to talk about because every time republicans say they re going to change the subject, they can t change it. it s the very definition of looking at us as sex objects, michael. we don t. the democrats are the one who talked about this war on women that wasn t republicans talking about some war on women and getting into contraception and all of that. we didn t rally around and lift up sandra fluke as some icon of contraception in america that wasn t us. she was rallied around because she was insulted. the democrats used her as a sledgehammer, and all he is saying we re not going t
going to start micromanaging in that way? this is not how americans deserve for them to run the government. why wouldn t you open one thing at a time? if you re the majority leader of the senate and you say can you save one child and you say why should i? talk about optics. terrible. terrible optics. that s unconscionable. he s going to bet beat up for that. i think we all know that reid cares a lot about kids. one of the things that s so weird to me is that he s now suddenly that republicans care so much about this particular program and yet the budget they voted for have defunded a lot of the program-the ryan budget actually defund almost all the things we re talking about. it was dana bash from cnn, it wasn t republicans who asked that question. a good question and a bad answer. i don t think anyone will say he handled the question well. let s talk about something in the news now recently. suddenly the republicans are the huge champions of veterans. what are these great