Trying to get him to admit, every reporter in washington, that the russians meddled with our elections. Trump. Trump, right. And barack obama comes back and says the russians meddled with our elections and he writes a tweet. The russians meddled with our elections. And he says your Health Care Plan is mean. My Health Care Plan is mean its unbelievable. The force is strong within him. The force is strong with this one. Obama. Strong the force is with his family. The president he was. Lets break this down, mark halperin, how many people have tried to get donald trump to admit the russians meddled with the 2016 elections . Many, many. I have a precise number here. 924,321. And so all obabarack obama h to do is just come back on the scene in his jedi garb, right. He just forces the president to say things about this Health Care Bill that really could hurt it politically. Really hamper its passage. Thats something that president obama really has power. He does have power, and we have a clip of him right here doing this. And its unbelievable. These arent the droids youre looking for. These arent the droids were looking for. Its unbelievable. Eddie, that is an amazing power. He can use it for good or for ill. Im not a star wars guy you should be. Is it the case the force works depending upon the intelligence level . Yes, it does. I just wanted to make sure. The force worked, of course, as we all know, worked on guards but not on jaba himself. The hut was too smart. The hut was impervious for mind tricks. Not this trump fellow. That is incredible. First of all republican senators and house members fighting for their political lives trying to figure out what to do and just because donald trump is so, so crazy and so jealous of barack obama, he gets him to admit that the Health Care Bill is mean. Thats my word. Im the one that said it was mean. Im the one that said it would throw seniors out in the street. Im the one who said Young Children with prehe existing conditions were going to die. That was me. Dont you give credit to barack obama for saying it was mean. I said it first. I go with broadcast news over star wars. I say it here. It comes out there. But think about that. Think how damaging this is. We joke about it but what is the impact of the president doubling down on the house bill where they had their party in the beer gardens and now hes saying its mean. Whats the impact . You would think the president has a lot of ability in a moment like this where every vote counts the president would go and exert his influence, twist arms. Right. In order to pull people across to take a tough vote. How it is hes going to go and say you must take this vote on this bill i have denounced as mean, i dont know how that works. It seems like a strange sales pitch. The same thing with the intel agencies not being able to convince the president to do anything but fight the fact that the russians influenced the 2016 election. Now barack obama has reemerged on the scene and hes tweeting that the russians meddled in the election. Its very bizarre because this information has been out this publicly for so long and has been reported. And then suddenly because Barack Obama Says its the law of the land, i dont understand the deny, the deny, the deny when it just would be so politically expedient to show an iota of concern about the russian meddling and move on. A long time ago he never did, of course. In fact, he never brought it up to comey. Hes never brought it up to anybody. It seems every time we encount they are kind of contradiction its motivated by his own selfare interest. With the Washington Post reports something thats critical, its fake news. If it reports something that benefits him, its something that we should embrace. Its just driven by him. Its crazy. Mika has the morning off. With us we have senior political analyst for nbc news and msnbc mark halperin, john heilemann, former aide to the george w. Bush white house elise jordan, and chairman of the department of africanamerican studies at princeton, he heddie, and nbc n capitol Hill Reporter casey hunt. Also with us from washington, and we might as well give you a quick swing at this, what do republicans on the hill think when you have the president who has them running around ignoring the russians meddling in our election side of it, instead lets just look at the leaks and on the other side the political fight possibly of some of their lives on health care reform. They jump over a cliff or President Trump and then President Trump over the weekend says the bill they passed was mean. Reporter look, i think they would rather he maybe stay out f of it a little bit for a little while while they finish counting the votes. There are some people he could call that would help. I think there is a feeling he is not aware of the landscape and could potentially do more harm than good, shall we say, if he were to try to make changes to this. I think theres a sense he doesnt necessarily have his head around the policy that will lead to them getting 50 votes here. People on the hill want him to stay the hell away because he doesnt know what hes doing . Reporter well, im trying to be more polite than that, honestly. I think that, yeah, the white house, the Vice President , the Vice President s team, mark short, the legislative people, they know where every vote is. They are talking to Mitch Mcconnells office every day. But the president s unpredictable public comments, i think, have a very real chance of throwing the whole thing for a loop. If youre Susan Collins in maine, if youre dean heller in nevada, if youre especially these moderates, or kov moderates, and the president is calling the Health Care Bill is mean. We need to put more money in there. That makes your decision easy. They will get absolutely hammered not only by aarp but their opponents for saying you voted for a bill that even donald trump said was mean. Theres a conservative case for a different kind of way to try to provide Health Insurance to the American People no one in the party is making it right now and the president is only making it more difficult for them to even try. Youve got rand paul and then a bunch of more moderate republicans saying this bill is inadequate in lots of ways. And i dont know if its for the party to pass it because theyre not becoming close to defending what theyre trying to do which ill just say is a partial repeal of the Affordable Care act. The problem, john heilemann, if im sitting in congress as a conservative voter, lets say im a conservative, this bill isnt conservative. No. Lets say im a moderate. This bill is mean. So this is the worst of all worlds. Youve got a bill that is neither conservative nor is it compassionate. Youve got a mean, nonconservative bill. That doesnt repeal the Affordable Care act and on top of Everything Else the president previously when he used the word mean it was in a closed door session. It was reported but wed never seen him on camera. We have him on camera giving every democrat who is going to run in any race in the country a beautiful piece of footage to put in an ad. So even if youre a republican worried about trump voters, youve now got the president saying the thing theyre about to vote for if they vote for it is mean. They have him on camera saying it. And, elise, again, he was bragging about it. Its mean. Those are my words. Well, he knows in his heart he has to know this is not a populous bill. Its influenced by the tax cuts theyre giving for their big donors. Hes just governing like yet another Big Government republican. That he is. All right. Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell says he hopes it to pass thank you the vote on health care. At the moment five Senate Republicans have said they just cant back the bill. Some conservatives are concerned its not enough of a repeal of obamacare as we heard just a minute ago. But moderates also are not onboard like nevadas dean heller who is concerned about cuts to medicaid. Heller is up for reelection in the state Hillary Clinton carried in the president ial election, and now the protrump pac priorities its funny when you watch somebody stumble into something theyre just no good at it. Theyre just stupid, right . Its like a donkey are trying to work an iphone. Theyre going to launch a 7 million ad blitz. Have you seen a donkey try to work an iphone . Of course not, youre a yankee. In shrek 7. Exactly. But theyre actually launching a sevenfigure ad. Trump. Against republican senators. Really constructive use of resources. And it sends a message to all the other republicans on capitol hill which is, you know, fine, okay. Is that how you want to play cowboy . Well play that way. Bill clinton you could impeach him on a thursday and he would go golfing with you on friday. He knew he was always going to need your vote the next week. The Washington Post is also reporting that other groups have already been up in the air for a very long time in nevada with ads like these. All right, lets get started. Youre both over 50 . Yes. Okay, that will cost you. Why . The new Health Care Bill in congress. If it youre over 50 Insurance Companies can charge you five times more. Its an age tax. Senator heller, when this happens, she isnt thinking about the Health Care Bill in congress. She isnt thinking that it will force her to choose between filling his prescriptions or paying their mortgage. She isnt thinking that when her premiums go up theyll lose their Health Insurance, and she shouldnt have to but you should, senator heller. I have to tell you, our party, if they pass this Health Care Bill, theyre going to get routed next year. Were going to see this around the clock. Why do something that will make premiums go up . I just dont get it. Action for the sake of action even if its action that is going to negatively impact your party . Right. Premiums will go up, i mean, everything, deductibles are worse, rates are worse, everything gets more difficult. Again, for the very people that donald trump said he was going to help out. For the very people that in large part have been the core of a lot of these republicans support. The core of my support. The, quote, wine and cheese republicans didnt vote for me. It was working class republicans. It goes back to an earlier point about the conflict between conservatives and moderate republicans and you say whats the bridge here . Whats the bridge has the bridge has everything to do with tax cuts, the connection between the two constituencies here that are in conflict. In some ways the donor class if you look at its particulars its a tax cut bill, when we look at that the two various constituencies can come together. I havent talked to a republican who said its worth it. Its a model of clarity compared to this. A unified party about how the government, the federal government, should interact with the health care markets. I dont understand this piece of legislation, the conservative vision of lower coverage. No one is talking about a vision. The loudest voices say this is a bad idea. His defense is not honest about what it will be. You must not vote for the bill and we will not get Supreme Court justices in the future. No, thats just the opposite. If they pass these bills, hen nobody likes then theyre going to lose the house and theyre going to lose the senate. Garland will be the next Supreme Court justice. Think about everythinging mark said is true which is fine with most americans, by the way. On top of Everything Else, its going to be all of that confusion, all of those arguments not being made set against some very stark, very large number thats going to not be materially different. Could be worse maybe than the house number, which was pretty devastating. On top of all of that, this atom bomb will go off now with no positive arguments being made for the bill. Its brutal. Yeah, kasie hunt, why . Its a question people are always coming up and asking me why do this now . Why force it through . Why write it with no transparency and then try to jam it through the senate, a bill thats going to be wildly unpopular. Reporter the conventional wisdom coming out of mcconnells office seems to be they feel like its much more politically wise to do something than nothing. But i have to tell you, joe, i do think that there is something of a fundamental misunderstanding of whats going on in the electorate. We talked about this over and over again when President Trump won and everybody was so surprised. Not everybody on this show but a lot of people were very surprised. The Democratic Party is moving way to the left on this issue. Way over towards single pair, way farther than where they were when they passed the Affordable Care act in the first place. And all these new Republican Voters that backed President Trump, theyre not looking for policies like this. And while, yes, trump ran on repealing obamacare, he also promised not the to touch medicaid, not to touch medicare. Thats what i dont understand completely the disconnect between what the president thinks of this and where Republican Leaders are. It just does not seem to me this is a bill that this president ran on in 2016. Its not. You can go down the list of the promises donald trump made, and its just objectively you can line them up here and everything he promised to voters in wisconsin, michigan, ohio, and pennsylvania hes violated with these bills. And on top of that, eddie, only 14 of americans support these bills. And we dont even have the cbo numbers out on the senate bill. Its probably going to be even worse. And we look at the folks who will be devastated by it if its passed. We think about half of americas children are on medicaid. We think about close to 40 . About 40 of the children are on medicaid. Poor folk, particularly in the south where were from, are disproportionately on medicaid. If im a conservative on the floor and im going to go out and vote for my partys bill, it had better give me something i can go back to my district. Listen, i know this is tough medicine and not everybody is going to be helped by this bill, but this is what the bill does. Its actually it brings in free Market Forces and most importantly it lowers the cost curve for our Health Care Industry over the next 20 years and stops us from becoming bankrupt. This bill doesnt do that. It doesnt bring in free Market Forces, so even as a conservative where i might be willing to make some really tough calls on one side, if i get Something Back on the other, this bill doesnt even do that. It doesnt make the system better. We still careen towards bankruptcy. All it does is transfers wealth, about a trillion dollars in wealth from the poor to the rich. And how disturbing is it that this is going to reorder a sixth of our nations economy at a time when a lot of people are real willy struggling and theyre doing it without any real debate and they just want to jam it get it done before the fourth of july. Right. And we have kasie, we have so many quotes from republicans who are concerned about Barack Obamas administration not being transparent, about their Health Care Bill. Are you going to go back to 93 and have all the wall street journal editorials attacking Hillary Clinton and the clinton Care Commission for not being transparent and, my gosh, the complaints it in 93, the complaints again in 2009, and yet here this is the most secretive, closed process weve ever had for health care reform. Theres not even a close second. And yet they push ahead. Reporter look, i covered all of the markups for the Affordable Care act, all the hearings, i mean, hours and hours and hours, and at the end of the day, yes, they cracked the final deal behind closed doors in harry reids office and as we know the story they pass ed it on Christmas Eve but it was after a year and change of debate and discussion and back and forth about the public option tax credits, this, that, the other thing. This is a very, very quick process that has involved a very small amount of people to the point where those of us who have covered this as a policy issue for years arent even sure the right question to ask because we dont know what theyre talking about and there are republican senators who are essentially saying the same thing about it. And i think thats the thing to watch this week, in my view. You heard ron johnson say it over the weekend that what they want to do here is delay this. If you start to get more republicans who are saying, look, i just dont want to do that this week, yeah, itll be a delay but its potentially also a death knell for the bill because if they delay it this week and mcconnell knows that. Thats part of the reason for this timetable. Theyre going to go home for the fourth of july recess, see all of these town halls, a lot of anger and a potential saping of the political will and then all of a sudden youre in august and september and were back to governing by crisis. It doesnt work that way. The front of the daily news, one of the papers