this country we ll have to do it in a durable, sustainable way and bipartisan manner. we as republicans should not make the same mistakes that the democrats did in 2010 by muscling that law through. i voted against it. they muscled it through. we need to do this in a durable, bipartisan and sustainable way. before i go back to senator lee. i want you to respond to was out this morning and it s an anecdote about the president and you. according to an attendee, the president angrily informed you, congressman dent, that you were destroying the republican party and was going to take down tax reform and i m going to blame you. is that is that what the president said to you and how did you respond? i listened to respectfully to what the president had to say, this discussion has been far too much about artificial timeliness
trump s young presidency in the span of just five days, mr. trump s credentiality with voters and his clout for congress were dealt big blows. mr. comey is investigating possible links between the trump campaign and the russian government. by friday, house republicans had to pull the bill to repeal and replace obamacare, an embarrassing acknowledge that they didn t have the votes despite full control of the senate and the white house. in a short time in office, the president s travel ban has been blocked twice, the russian investigation is widening and his political capital is shrinking. in behind the scenes negotiating and arm twisting on health care, the president was lackluster in the art of the deal that didn t
endorsing the idea of an independent commission, john mccain has been the biggest champion of this is aing at this point maybe it can t be done inside of congress. what do you say to that? listen, if we can get an independent commission, that means you have to pass a bill and the president will sign it. that s moving you were not there even two weeks ago. and then you have to debate about who will be on it. i have tom cotton on the committee and ron widen and we crossed all of the political divides and frankly, we have bipartisan support, serious republicans, marco rubio, susan collins all saying we ll go where the intel leads. i want to ask you about richard burr and your trust and faith in him. the white house used asked both devin nunes and richard burr to essentially help push back against one of these new york times stories and they both did in some form or another. does that call into question senator burr s ability to be
and arbitrary deadlines all to affect tax reform. this conversation should be more about the people whose lives will be impacted by decisions on health care. we did not have much of a substantive discussion. i m holding up a plan from republican governors from expansion states like mine, kasich, snyder, sandoval, hutchison. they wanted to be part of this process and they were not brought in. those kinds of issues were very important to me and to the people i represent and frankly, to a lot of the members of congress who are part of the senate right group who are very concerned about the medicaid changes and yeah, i can hold my ground. senator lee, you heard mick mulvaney said they re moving on. you heard the president say he s glad health care is behind him. first of all, what say you? is health care behind you? absolutely not. we need to do that. we need to do that very thing. we need to get back to the table and get people negotiating. as a whole lot of people said
taxation, for example, getting gorsuch through. those kinds of things will begin to lift, but it won t be trump who is getting that done for him. i really think that this has not been fatal for trump. no question about that, but how nimble he s going to be and whether he can change. we haven t seen much evidence of that in his private life or in his public life, and i think that s what weave got to watch. it s interesting to me, his instinct is to want to work with democrats. there is an excerpt of the great robert draper piece on trump, and he wrote this and based on an interview that he did. trump seemed much less animated by the subject of budget cuts than the subject of spending pump. spend money to make money in the future and that will happen, a clearer keynesian liberalism, is that your party now? i think he s done with the right wing. if you buy stocks, one of