he didn t talk to journalists beforehand or the policy community, and i think that was perhaps the biggest flaw and the biggest mistake. the biggest knock you hear about paul ryan that it rings true, tom is here is this incredible policy wonk who hates politics and he took a job that was all politics. he knew he wasn t as suited for it as others wanted it to be. the president put his arms around it, but i think he s been wounded in this quite honestly and nobody else wants that job and quite surprised, however, and i hesitate to use the phrase, naivety. doesn t aaron rodgers always start slow, though? isn t he always start slow in the. best line i ve heard week is a day without a tweet is a very good day. it s also very hard to no matter how good of a politician you are to sell the idea of taking 24 million people s healthcare away. that is not sellable. in ryan s defense, i don t
affordable. congressman dent, i would guess you are in more agreement with senator cassidy. i spoke with senator cassidy and senator collins at length and senator cassidy from a very c conservative state. we have a health architecture now, flawed as it is, i voted against it the and we need to make it market oriented and patient-friendly and patient-centered. that debate hassal read ed been settled. our job is now to fix it and make it much better than it is today because it s simply not working for too many americans. senator lee, congressman dent i ll leave it there and i have a feeling that there say divide here on the role of government that hasn t been bridged inside the republican party and until that s done we still may have this debate to go on and on and on. gentlemen, i appreciate you coming on together. it s good to have you both. when we come back, how deep is the damage to president trump from the collapse of this health care bill, plus the federal investigation in
keeping some in and some out. no, i understand that, but you have essentially, you could take the government to court. you could stop this and will you pull out every stop from keeping the wall from construction? i don t like the wall. to the extent it violates law i will enforce that. we re not going to sit around and play patsys and do whatever the hell you want and deport 2 million people. no, we re going fight and we ll fight very hard, but we re not going to bring stupid lawsuits and running to the courthouse every day and i would do the right, human and christian thing from my point of view. you don t treat human beings like that. trump s supposed to be mr. religious fellow, and i thought we had to treat the least of these as we would treat the lord. so i hope he would reconnect with some of his conservative evangelicals and they ll hello him that these are human beings
them is the supreme court, that went up 400% this week and one is health care and it bankrupted and you have the military, the tax bill and the infrastructure and he ll bank on the other four going up and the supreme court went with i think you had the 2020 nominee here in mark warner. you can t be the democratic nominee and not support a filibuster. that s it. he s run for president and he s going to go for chuck shumer and that is great from my perspective. ilian a does donald trump go to his democratic instipths now? i think that s 100% true. he ll move to the left and he s wanted to do infrastructure and he wants to do a big push on it, and the thing i found interesting this week is that he went to the freedom caucus and his pitch to them, his means of persuasion was he singled out mark meadows and he told republicans, you re going to lose. i m going to campaign against you and people said to me, you know, it wasn t the best means
this is no longer a hundred-day priority. the president has things he wants to accomplish and he s not going to wait for congress to sit around and do the right thing. when it breaks and chuck, it s going to break, they will come back to us and ask us to take it up again. i will leave it there. as tax reform gets under way i ll see you there again soon. mick mulvaney, thanks for coming on. appreciate it. it was tanked by a revolt in the house, but it was facing steep opposition in the senate, senator of utah and charlie, and one thing they both agreed on, they weren t going to vote for this bill as it was written and they both join me now together. gentlemen, welcome. senator leigh, let me start with you, the president is blaming the freedom caucus, club for growth and heritage for, quote, protecting planned parenthood and obamacare. is that a fair read of what happened this week, sir? that is not at all how i see