for me. i was sent up here to fix, to replace obamacare and put something better in its place. and i was sent up here to help ordinary americans share in the great wealth of this country by fixing the tax code. and we failed so far on health care. we re not giving up, but the votes weren t there. but i mean, i don t believe in nibbling around the edges. the bill was dead, it wasn t going to pass, so let s move to tax reform and come back to health care. that doesn t mean we re giving up, i m not, i just want to go get tax reform done and i want to do it by november. and i want to make it retroactive to the first of the year. and if that means working nights and working weekends, and working in the evening, is people have to miss wheel of fortune every now and then, we need to be doing it. there s no excuse for us not to be able to do this by november. you are in big trouble with the wheel of fortune lobby now, senator. senator john kennedy from louisiana, thanks so much.
is this different or is it overblown? it s different in that it is more frequent and his own property, as gabe mentioned, is promoting. mar-a-lago is in the headlines every weekend, fantaic for donald trump s business. he could have done what the watchdogs wanted him to do, totally divested and put his assets into a blind trust. he decided not to do that, and now he has to deal with the conflict of interest questions going forward. it is going to be a constant throughout his presidency. there is an argument, because this is the president s personal place, when he hosts the foreign leaders for the visits, it might make it a warmer environment and maybe make it more justifiable. i spoke to white house officials. what is the draw of marmar-a-la? they say, he is comfortable there. the secret service gives him some space. in that environment, he s much more comfortable. he likes to go to the golf course and do calls there. this is what he sees as his working weekends. anna, aaron, t
to this. that makes it a bit different. for the president, it s a chance to continue what s been a pattern of working weekends. we ve come to florida with him a number of times. this was his habit and routine before he was president, to spend his winters in florida at his palm beach home. so he is continuing that now as president and trying to include some work activity. so the rally later today in orlando, also today since roughly 9:00 this morning, he has been at one of his golf clubs where we are told that he is holding meetings, doing calls, maybe having some recreation time. we don t have a specific readout of that. the intention is for it to be both work and relaxation over the weekend. the rallies are a way to get him outside the white house, outside the bubble of washington, and honestly, he has felt that he has been successful in that kind of venue where he can speak with either prepared remarks or sort of riffing about his own ideas and experiences. we saw a bit of it yesterd
we don t usually do working weekends. we are usually at home with our kids, but they were scattered. decided to come here because the club we said, okay, we are going to take a lot of meetings. there was shock, as you know, across the city friday night, and i will tell you with this foreign policy team, they are ready for it to jell. none of these guys got why they got by engaging in guesswork or by running a sloppy drg havi sloppy management process. my feeling and i know mika s was, too, that this this is going to be the big discussion certainly between the foreign policy team and the president this week. how this happens in the future. just for the record, i urged compassion. we both did as much as possible given that this was all unfolding. let s lay it down. we sort of backed into it because of the meetings we had
rebuilding process. a narrow trump loss and i think that pendulum switches and i think people say, if not for, hey, maybe i could have won wisconsin if you, paul ryan, had helped so the recriminations inside the party become more high profile in the narrower trump s loss is. chuck todd. busy man in the next few days. thank you for coming out. you too. working weekends. weekdays. is the deck stacked against hillary clinton inside the nation s top law enforcement agency? new reporting on leaks, rumors and rising tensions inside james comey s fbi. plus, new campaign low? the final friday on the trail gets even uglier as donald trump targets clinton in this masty new ad. this is msnbc. the place for politics. hey listen, when you tell our friends about your job, maybe let s play up the digital part.