we get along, it s just a matter of getting good policy. so, the personal stuff just confuses and gets in the way of good policy, which is what we ve got to get to. congressman, thank you so much for your time. you bet. i love the dave brat perspective. everything is great up here. we are all getting along. i want to know what it looks like when you re not getting along if that s what it looks like, congressman. right, right. thanks for your time. i appreciate it. you bet. thanks, kate. all righty. also breaking news, cnn now learning that president trump is losing hope of striking a deal with russia as questions mount, of course, over the president s and his campaign s ties to moscow. russian president vladimir putin is weighing in, was weighing in just a short time ago, calling the u.s. meddling allegations lies. i just want to be very clear about this. you and the russian government did never try to influence the outcome of the u.s. presidential election, and there
to do with tax reform. it s the revenue base line. it s the obamacare taxes that themselves affect tax reform. here s the way that the math works. if we repeal the obamacare taxes, then that is a revenue base line that we don t have to put into tax reform. if we don t repeal the obamacare taxes, it is my position that we re just going to have to leave those taxes over there with obamacare and reform the rest of the irs tax code. but it does make tax reform harder. it s all about the revenue base line, has nothing to do with the spending base line. explain this idea of not wanting the president to work with democrats. oh, yeah, sure. on the health care, but also when some of us just talked to chris collins, you know, a big trump ally, and he says, you know, the next time that the freedom caucus calls the tuesday group, we should hang up the phone. he says we re not going to hit health care again until 2019. you say you re close. why should anyone believe that? well, because abou
investigation that culminated in canceling the public hearings this week. so, that s the piece. and i lay all that out in an article at newyorker.com. i wonder what the white house, if you got any response from sean spicer, anyone from the white house on that. but also, ryan, weave it into this. because with that in mind, you have important reporting from sara murray that hopes are fading in the white house of the president being able to do what he had promised and hoped in terms of improving relations with russia. some of what she s pointing to, though, is continued scrutiny in the media. yeah, look, i think that the climate i was actually talking to an ambassador from western ambassador, i guess is the closest i could describe him as, who was arguing to me and this is an ambassador who was very worried about trump s reaching out to russia and he was arguing that he thinks because the climate in washington right now has become, frankly, so hostile towards russia, right, an
sweep this morning. the white house s response, when asked to clarify what the president s meaning is, the white house s response is the president s tweet speaks for itself. this has become this has become the singular response from the white house when asked to clarify or give any background to any of the president s tweets. what does that actually mean, the president s tweet speaks for itself? well, i think president trump has been using twitter as a means of sending messages and indicating his views on things. sometimes it s completely inaccurate, and sometimes it s an indication of where he s sitting politically. this may not have been a threat this morning. this may have been him sending a message listen, preefreedom caucus, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. i ll work with the moderates and work with them. i ve been hearing from 2018 candidates who are up for election, from people who are worried about putting poison pills and riders on different bills,
to 20% through 2020. that s not good for the forgotten man back home. and when you have the federal government in charge of one-fifth of the economy, that s not draining the swamp. so, we all ran on exactly the themes the president ran on. we re with him, but someone s gotten into his ear. and yesterday, right, two days ago, the senate also i can t believe this wasn t covered by the news republican leadership in the senate said they re not going to repeal obamacare in this process. it was covered. it was covered. we covered it. i promise you we did. i know, but that s huge, right? let me ask you this all of this is huge. you say you re with him, you re with the president. yes. you read this tweet, congressman, it does not look like the president is with you. he says, the freedom caucus is going to hurt the entire republican agenda if they don t get on the team and fast. we must fight them and democrats in 2018. do you take that as a threat? no, i don t take it as a