The next battle. Cutting taxes which could prove more challenging. That after failing to deliver on the president s promise to repeal and replace obamacare despite republicans having control of the house and senate. If you analyze what went wrong with aca, if he repeats them in tax reform, theyll get nowhere. Reporter this as the finger pointing intensifies. What happened is washington won. The house moved too fast. 18 days is not enough time for a major landmark legislation. Reporter President Trump shifting the blame from democrats to the conservatives who stood in the way of the bill. Tweeting they saved planned parenthood and obamacare. As chief of staff Reince Priebus is leaving the door open to compromise. If democrats come on board with a plan down the road, we welcome that. They have to reach out across the aisle and democrats have to say we will work with you to improve and fix the plan for people. Reporter meanwhile, a long time member of the Freedom Caucus ted poe is resigning from the group over the role in defeating the bill. Poe writing and saying no is easy. Leading is hard. House Speaker Paul Ryan under scrutiny in the wake of the defeat. President trump tweeting to supporters to watch a fox program which began like this. Paul ryan needs to step down as speaker of the house. Reporter the white house is insisting trump didnt know the host would make the comments. And at the commander in chief is standing by the speaker. He doesnt blame paul ryan. He thought paul ryan worked really hard. Reporter republicans also gearing up for another fight. Over Supreme Court pick neil gorsuch with democrats vowing to filibuster his nomination. I applaud the republicans obeying the rules that exist and not changing the rules. The rules right now for good reasons are 60 votes. Reporter now we are expecting the white house to make another announcement today. We are expecting the president to unveil a new American Innovation office. This is led by his soninlaw Jared Kushner. It is designed to make the government leaner and meaner and adopt practices from the private sector in order to do that. Chris. What happens when you take those processes from a place with profit motive to government . Well see. Joining us is anthony scaramouchi. Good to have you with us. Thank you. Good morning. Health care did not go the way the president wanted. To a lot of blaming right now. Is that the right thing to be doing . Well, i read the papers like you do. It is not clear the president s necessarily blaming. You are talking forprofit certi versus politics. They are not interested in the blame exercise as much as they need to do Going Forward for the team for the results for the american people. I see that is a little misguided. He is doing that. It is coming out of the white house. He in a tweet went after the caucus. Thats different than your report. I dont think he is blaming Reince Priebus or speaker ryan. He is in general say the Freedom Caucus was an objestacle to getting the reform bill passed that he and speaker ryan wanted. That is fair to say. Im talking specific blame. You run an organization and the worst thing you can do is sit around the table shooting at each other. He would not be president if he did that. He would not have the Trump Organization if he did that. The Freedom Caucus did block that bill, chris. If he is pointing out that they blocked the bill and the result of conservative things could have gotten done had the bill passed that are not now done. He is pointing that out. He finds that ironic. Is this why he should leave twitter alone, but says Jeanine Pirro has a great show. The first thing out of her mouth is ryan has to go. Coincidence . It is a coincidence. Jeanine said it on her show. You dont think . No, no. You have to find new tactics. The question is legitimate. It is a reflection of what happens when you tweet without foresight. Are you asking me a rhetorical question. It is not a rhetorical question. I dont think it is a coincidence you are asking me the question. I do think it is coincidence that Jeanine Pirro said that. He is promoting her show. It shows how he is spending his time and how it comes back to bite him in the behind. It is a wonderful mechanism for him to reach over the Mainstream Media to the american people. If you are traveling in places like wisconsin or pennsylvania or going into the Western Areas of michigan, you find people find him refreshing. Some people find him refreshing. People want to be told the truth. Thats the commodity is the tru. Where does he get a win . I think he is adapting as the executive and commander in chief. I think he recognizes and the chief of staff priebus said that yesterday. They will try to build a coalition with the moderate democrats. We are in the least Competitive Position we have been in the last 35 years. We have the highest Corporate Tax rate in the land. There are moderates that are business friendly that want a simplified tax. Is it more targeted because of health care . That is a good question. I dont know the answer to that. I know the president plays big. He will be big and bold and make it broad base. That is a good question. They will probably if they had to go for that sort of win because i think were both in agreement to prosecute his agenda and execute it properly. He has to put a couple of points on the board. The concern will be if you ask for too much in terms of tax cuts, the conservatives and definite hawks come forward and say you have to cut entitlements. He doesnt want to mess with medicare. He promised he would not touch social security. It is hard to pay for a tax cut. On the campaign trail, i heard him say many times he doesnt want people in the street. I heard him say we are a healthy country. We have to take care of the people indigent in the country. He is a very compassionate person. I dont see him necessarily going in that direction. On the infrastructure piece, the last piece with john, i think there are privatepublic Partnership Ideas we could use that would be non deficit hurting if you will. A number of interesting ideas and initiatives the president s cou president could put in place that is not impactful to the deficit and get the Multiplier Effect out. Why didnt he start with Infrastructure Infrastructure . The democrats want it. You can argue they are jobs. Good question. Referring back to the last segment. Democrats and republicans are necessarily reforms needed for the Affordable Care act. Look at Insurance Premiums for Small Companies like the one i used to run. Skybridge capital. 80 in the last three years. That is longterm unsustainable. The president is looking at that and saying okay, this could quote unquote implode or explode. This is super important to the american people. They did not get the win. They didnt do that. They had repeal and replace on their mind. If they said forget about repeal. Lets fix this, they may have had a different outcome. That would be probably more the way the democrats would have thought about it. The way the republicans thought about it is they want to repeal and replace it. Put something in that was not a tax. Not necessarily had that governmental mandate on the insurance side. So listen, it did not work for now. I think the president was clear on friday that i didnt promise repeal and replace in 64 days. My guess is maybe in 364 days, hell have a plan in place that will be real reform. We need the reform. I think we can agree on this. People can agree in a bipartisan way that there are flaws in the through need adjusted. Anybody that is paying Insurance Premium knows there is something wrong in the system. Lets question our premise about all of this. He needs points on the board. He needs momentum. You think that is 100 true or should he focus on policy that is most existential to his heart . Dont worry about the win or optics. When i say he needs points on the board or hear people say that. It is not that he needs points on the board. He is only two months into the presidency. I dont mean it like it is not necessary, but what the president likes is delivering results for the american people. My guess is he is looking at a list of initiatives right now. He will pick two or three that are very winnable. He is adaptive. My guess is he is jaw boning with members of his own party, republican party, but he will make an outreach to democrats who he thinks share his ideas. Ideas on infrastructure and tax reform and other initiatives that are important to the american people. Although it is only 67 days . He came in with such a blast out of the cannon. Are you surprised this far in and cant point to a major an keefement . Im not surprised by the Affordable Health care act. He sat with his team and went with the House Initiative on the Affordable Care act. They said lets give it a try in the washington way. When the washington way didnt work, they went to the hill and said lets have a vote. That is a business way. Lets be accountable. Washington is not used to that, chris. They didnt want that vote. The president said we wont have the vote. I think the message now is the washington way is sort of dysfunctional. Lets try Something Different. I think Something Different and creative will come out of the Trump White House that will deliver results. On the investigative front what we saw with nunes which was objectively a nightmare for the president. What do you think of the idea of the president setting the standard and saying you know what . Im going to talk to nunes and say you cant hold any independent. You heard urt me and myself. You and i were on the topic last week. I thohad to bring it up. The point is at the end of the day, i go with the president still. Also chief of staff priebus. I go with them. They think there is something there. You saw Reince Priebus hold up the New York Times article yesterday. I think there may be something there. The president has great instincts. You want to focus on nunes. I understand why you want to do that. What i want to do is the same thing i said last week which is lets give it more time. Lets see what happens. You havent learned anything from nunes thing . You havent learned anything. What did you learn . This was a naked attempt to go around the investigative process and deliver what nunes thought was good information for the president s narrative. It blew up in his face. I think that is objectively exactly what happened. That da and i hear what yo are saying. He had it and went around his committee. I think there is something there. We can talk about nunes and his strategies and tactics and communication. I really want to talk about the president and president s instincts and the reason the president would send a tweet out. We can parse his words and syntax. I think the president feels there were people surveyed by the Obama Administration. Lets give it more time. We can focus on nunes and say he made mistakes last week. I want to focus on the president and what i have seen in him you dont think he did it because he was upset about Jeff Sessions . Im not a psychiatrist. Maybe you have people on staff that are psychiatrists. I cannot evaluate that. I can evaluate i observed him and worked closely with him. The reason why he went from 22 months ago being a business person to the american presidency is that he has great political instincts. Very good judgment on people. He knows what he wants to do. I think he is has a sense, a horse sense for things, chris. I like to have more time pass to see what is really up. The original question is always this is not a situation that needs time. He could have gotten these answers immediately himself. Instead of putting it out in the ether. It worked. In general, it worked as a distraction. You dont think that is what this is about . There is more to it than a distraction. Thats my opinion. Always good to see you. Your mom was terrific the other day. National italianamerican foundation. Thank you. Your mom is always terrific. We have breaking news from oklahoma. A Police Officer critically injured in an exchange of gunfire with a traffic stop late sunday. The officer tased the suspect who managed to flee into the wooded area. Thats where the shots were fired. Officer and suspect taken to the hospital. The officer is in critical condition. We will keep you updated. 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Ge, how we use it is only limited by our imagination. And at Southern Company were building the future of energy, for you. Well, the fallout continues for republicans after the defeat on health care. The white house wants to move on to tax reform, but that is no slam dunk. Joining us now is republican Congress Member charlie dent of pennsylvania. He is co chair of the moderate caucus of the gop. Dent found himself at the center of the Health Care Debacle and President Trumps ire. Good morning, Congress Member. Thank you, alisyn. Thank you for having me on the program. Good to have you here. It was reported that when President Trump found out you were a no vote, he said you were destroying the republican party. What was your response . Well, just another day at the office for me, i guess. Let me say this. I had two meetings last week with the president. Center right group met on tuesday. I expressed my serious concerns and reservations. I told him i was leaning no. I came back on thursday and said i was against the bill. He did not take it as well the second and third time i said no. I get it. Emotions are running high. They are saying things they shouldnt. I did raise concerns about the bill with the president. Specifically the medicaid provision. I expressed to the president that made kedicaid provision wa inadequate. I presented the plan by kasich and schneider and sandoval. Republican governors that need to be brought in the process. It didnt provide adequate resources for people on medicaid. And when you told him your concerns, what did the president say . I raised it on tuesday. They took it under advisement. I think they were reaching out to some of the governors. On thursday, i mentioned it again and it did not go as well. Bottom line is i raised the planned parenthood issue. I always felt that should not be part of the discussion. That should be separated from the under lying Health Care Bill. I raised that issue. Bottom line. People had their idea of a bill. They were going to force it through. I said all along. The problem with the Health Care Debate is we the republicans shouldnt make the same mistake the departmemocrats did. They muscled obamacare through. We should not make the same mistake. We need a sustainable reform. You should not make the same mistakes and the Health Care Bill failed. Who do you blame . Look, the white house was making concessions to the hard right elements of our conference who will not vote for the bill anyway. In the process, they picked up very few votes. They ended up losing votes from center right members who had very serious concerns about the changes to essential Health Benefits