changed his position three or four times. my gosh must be steamed right now at donald trump. what s the reaction? mitch mcconnell and donald trump smoke not yesterday but the day before. in between these tweet and before donald trump made all those remarks. i think that tells you a lot about how that phone call went. the sense among mitch mcconnell s cramp is that the president does not understand how things get done in washington, that this is counterproduct of, he should they only needed those 50 votes this they wouldn t get 50 republicans and health care. you re right, he s changed his position back and forth. he was never clear, this is what i want the policy to be.
you mentioned jeff flake and heller at the end of the show, if the president goes after those people, he s going to lose mitch mcconnell. he s already started doing that, elease jordan. if bob that s donald trump going in had certain senator denied if a thoin you know, it s something that to this day if i were in congress and the guy asked me for something, i d smile and say let me get back to you. they don t understand. and, by the way, if they did it to my friend, as you know, it would be worse. members come together.
comments a couple days ago at home saying he believed this president had excessive expectations about the way things get done in the democratic process going forward. and it followed just a couple days earlier on the golf course a conversation the president had. it got to be tense at times with mcconnell as those two men get ready to see each other again when the recess ends. it underscores this is a president trying again to really play to the core supporters who believe he s best when he is untethered from one party. they re the ones who embrace the drain the swamp mentality. those are the folks he believed they re with him before anybody else. all right. peter, thank you. we greatly appreciate it. we appreciate the update. mike barnicle, i want to throw it around the table. fox news when they came on to the scene in 1996, roger ailes and rue pert murdoch had a
performance yesterday. two focussed on his comments about mitch mcconnell, on one tweeting how trump fires new warning shot at mcconnell basically leaving open the door whether or not he should step down. what was striking to me yesterday here is after that news conference wrapped up i got a note from one of the president s top aides who said it was great. they clearly felt good about the president. he was obviously a little bit restless after almost a week of this working vacation to get out in front of the cameras and address the news. most notably, north korea, but also the exchange that s going to affect his ability to deal when he gets back to washington, those critical comments again about mitch mcconnell saying of the senate republican s failure to repeal and replace obama care, that it was disgraceful, saying that he was very disappointed in mcconnell, even as he praised mcconnell s wife. she would be a fun person to talk to right about now. this followed mcconnell s
and so for donald trump to be clumsy enough to, first of all, attack mitch mcconnell and then to threaten lisa murkowski because when you threaten a member, especially a senator, you just told them they have to fight back and she did. now to do this to heller and jeff flake, he doesn t even have 49 votes now. i mean, good luck. i man getting 46, 47. it seems, elease, every day he s making his job harder. el, he s just had this attitude of being a wrecking ball, coming in through washington and, you know, nothing is going to be left standing in wake of this and he wants to have any hope of having any legislative success, he s setting himself up for disaster. it s delusional the idea that he