he has been relatively quiet about what he wants to see in the replacement bill, but to the degree that the president has spoken about health care it's been to keep the pressure on, the fact that he believes that obamacare needs to be repealed and needs to be replaced. he's had no shortage of chen tear both on twitter and in person about the problems with that system. now, legislatively, mike pence has been the one leading the way. he was on capitol hill several times last week meeting with republican senators to try to hash out the deal that could potentially pass in this bill. but one of the more interesting developments over the last couple days that maybe hasn't gotten as much ink as it probably should have is the president sort of opening up the idea of doing this over two bill, a repeal bill then a replace bill. mitch mcconnell said over the weekend that's not the way he's pursuing this. but the white house director of legislative affairs said yesterday that perhaps this is something they're seriously considering. take a listen. >> we now are in the senate where there's been obviously a lot of procedural delays in this process. we're at the point of scoring two separate will bills throughout the course of this vesz week. we hope to come back the week after recess we'll have a vote. >> reporter: mitch mcconnell has said he very much wants to work through this idea of one bill to do this all at once. the president creating essentially an off ramp for conservatives by saying if that fails we could pursue this two different bill strategy. for the fwoeshgs to work, that requires mitch mcconnell to essentially go to these republican senators and say we are doing this one way, we need you on board or off board. and at some point, chris, i think the senate will want to see the president use his social media muscle to push forward a plan and why it needs to be done, but so far that has not happened. >> garrett haake, thank you so much. let me bring in my panel, democratic strategist liz smith, republican strategist evan siegfried and bob collins. white house says they think they're getting close to passing something, some republican lawmakers say we're at an impasse, i don't think this is going to get done. how do you see it? you've been around washington for a few years. what do you see happening there? >> just a few. i think the white house always says that it's close to achieving whatever it has on its agenda right now. and of course the president tries to camouflage a lack of result by some sort of twitter storm or other, which is of course what we're seeing now. but the truth of the matter is i think that this trial balloon is probably going to be the way that the republicans go, which is to say they're going to repeal now and kick the can down the road and try and figure out some way, somehow to come up with a replacement, maybe one that's not so controversial. >> and we saw as garrett mentioned the president tweeted essentially that scenario himself, but then you have hhs secretary tom price yesterday saying this. >> we think that leader mcconnell and his senators within the senate are working to try to get this piece of legislation on track. their conversations are ongoing as we speak. we look forward to them hopefully coming back after this fourth of july recess and getting the work done. >> is this going to end up being a repeal and replace, single-payer system? what is going on here? >> first of all, the president endorsing this idea of we'll do the repeal now and replace later goes against everything he campaigned upon saying we would have a simultaneous repeal and replace process. if you were to go out and do that, as "the washington post" has said, up to 32 million americans could be without coverage and that's immoral. what needs to happen is we need to have a bill that isn't is bcra, a completely new bill that lowers the cost of health coverage and increases the quality of health care. in this bill right now, it actually slashes and guts funding for telemedicine, which actually reduces the burden on other health care providers by allowing people in both urban and rural areas to get access to doctors very early and get preventative care. the kst savings are tremendous, but this bill kills it. >> in the meantime, you have somebody like ben sasse. let's listen to his take on all of this. >> i'd like to say let's do the repeal, then let's try to get 60 out of 100 senators. let's bring everybody into the room, do this full-time, 18 hours a day, six days a week, let's cancel the august state work period and let's do it in full flick view. >> so there's two parts to this. what are the chances you see the senate coming back in august in the death of summer to washington, d.c., and then they actually get together in a room somewhere and suddenly it's kumbaya. >> exactly. it's like ben sasse is stuck in the twilight zone. the gop has had seven years to come up with any alternative and the idea that somehow over the course of one month stuck in one room they're going to come up with something -- >> get back together and get in that one room. >> right. i don't think they'll go throw with repeal first because it will kick 32 million people off and create chaos. some of the biggest -- it's been republican governors like john kasich, brian sandoval in nevada, like rick snyder in michigan and they're saying this is cruel, this will kick people off the health care rolls, people who will die if they don't have health care. i think those are the voices the republicans should listen to because those are the people who are implementing health care at the ground level. >> one other aspect is if you do go through with this repeal and in a year from now, what are we doing in a year from now? going into the midterm. you think we'll get any legislative things passed? we wouldn't be able to pass legislation saying america is a great country at this point. >> but remember what senator sasse is talking about is repealing for two years. that would get us past the election and perhaps would encourage some democrats to come on board, which, of course, they'd require if they were going to cross that 0-vote threshold. >> how does that happen? >> what i would say to that is democrats have offered to come forward on this. you look at joe manchin yesterday. for months he's been saying let us in at the table, into the negotiating room. so is claire mccaskill and heidi hide camp. and the republicans haven't done it. sure, you see people like president trump shedding crocodile tears saying the democrats are obstructionist -- >> you think chuck schumer says let's get together, you believe him. >> i do believe him because we need to fix obamacare. we do need to fix it. and even though the republicans politically own it right now, it is incumbent upon us to make sure there's more competition. >> what does the president do in all this? i had people when i was on the hill last week suggest to me he doesn't even understand really what's in this bill. one person suggested to me he didn't understand the difference between medicare and medicaid. that might be considered a problem. but does he have a role? does he have power here? he says, you know, he's this modern-day president. he does have all these 33 million twitter followers. could he be doing something more sneer. >> he need to decide where he stand on the health care bill first. it was a terrific bill when it was the ahca. then it was mean before the bcra came out. now it's a terrific bill again. i don't know where he stands but he has the power as president to bring both republicans and democrats together. excuse me. one thing we are missing is that the american people and the election wanted to end this -- end the gridlock in washington. and in recent polling we've seen that americans want republicans and democrats to come together to forge a compromise. >> we've been talking about this, bob, for years, literally for years, and we did have a president who ran on sort of getting things done, but do you see anything in washington that's changed the dynamic for the better as to posed to for the worse? >> here's the problem that i have with democrats participating in this. they do not want to give donald trump any sort of claim to victory in much the same way that republicans apply the same sort of tactics against barack obama. so i don't think that there's any possibility that there can be any meaningful reform of obamacare thu a cooperative effort. >> liz, you seem to be skeptical. >> i am because i'm someone who's worked far lot of democratic governors. that's sort of my bread and butter. listen to john hickenlooper, the democratic governors out there, this has real effects on share budge gets and just viewing this through some sort of washington, d.c., partisan lens -- >> good point, though. democratic, what about republican governors, a john kasich? any influnence at all? they're the people closer to this and have to deal with the budget ramifications. >> what's important to remember is some of the most important races -- because we always have to keep in mind the political ramifications with these things. most important races in 2018 are the governor's race because they will help set the makeup for congress for 2020 for the next ten years because they will, you know, be in charge of redistricting. and we already see democrats going on the offensive on this issue in states like virginia. and virginia will be a great test case of how obamacare and the repeal goes. and so it's -- if democrats don't help fix this, i think they want to see it fixed and i think republican governors -- >> governors aren't in the room negotiating the health care bill. it's senators and congressmen and they have not shown the courage to work together. >> they can exert a lot of influence over them. >> we talk about the importance of the governors' races and having to do with redistricting, but much was going to depend on that supreme court case that's going to be heard, whether political considerations can be used in setting up voter districts. that's number one. number two, i think that there's going to be a real battle next year for the control of congress, and so i don't think that the democrats are going to be in any mood to cooperate with republicans on just about anything. >> well, there's another story out there and i want to ask you about it, evan. i mean, republican lawmakers want to lobby the cbo now to look at that score, get it more in line with something that might be a little more acceptable to their constituents, even as the vast majority of republican members of the senate are not going to be available to their constituents a single time. they don't have a town hall plan. they don't have a public appearances plan. what do you make of that? >> well, i really am stunned that we've gone from the cbo doesn't matter to can you give us something a little nicer and help us p.r.-wise? >> more than the cbo doesn't matter, they said the cbo has been totally off the mark on just about every projection. that's been their argument. now they want to use it. >> went you're talking about republicans not having town halls, there are republicans who are having town halls. senator cassidy had one on friday where he was basically attacked verbally. i want to say one thing. republicans who do that and have those town halls are showing political courage because they know it's not a popular bill and they'll get slammed by their constituents. e i think every republican who does that, we should celebrate and say thank you for at least listening, which other republicans should do. >> garrett haake, what are you hearing at the white house about all this? >> reporter: i wanted to jump in on evan's point about republican goc nors not being in the room to negotiate here. there's one important example to the contrary and that's brian sandoval in nevada who was extremely loud voice against this bill. he's the most popular politician in that state. and when you have dean heller standing up next to him saying we cannot support this bill, that's brian sandoval's voice essentially coming out of dean heller's mouth. as long as brian sandoval's not happy with what's in this health care bill coming out of the senate, i don't see how dean heller votes for it. so there are some of these sort of symbiotic relationships here between republican governors and republican senators where you are going to see them lined up and republican governors will have a voice in that process. >> garrett haake, thank you so much. liz, evan, bob. stay with me. still ahead, governor chris christie closing new jersey beaches as part of the state's government shut down. so why are there pictures of him lounging at the shore this weekend? 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you're in charge of homeland security there. that seems like a threat. >> yeah. certainly not, though. i think that no one would per sooif that as a threat. i hope they don't. i do think he's beaten up in a way on cable platforms and he has a right to respond to. >> reporter: like so much else the president does, at least on social media, that seemed to catch his aides off guard. also this morning, more tweets about what the president is doing today. he talks about his upcoming trip to the g-20 summit in hamburg, germany. he says, we will be speaking with italy this morning, spoke yesterday with the king of saudi arabia about peace in the middle east. interesting things are happening, the president says. we'll be speaking with germany and france this morning. and last nights readouts from conversations he had with leaders from china and japan. the president is tweeting at least about being busy and in touch with foreign leaders, preparing for this foreign trip while the reaction, the turmoil, if you, will at least in terms of reaction about this tweet and wrestlemania just keeps swirling. >> ron, thank you for that. back with me, my panel, liz smith, evan siegfried, bob franklin. you have tom boss ert defending this, the hhs secretary on "meet the press," kind of deflecting. republicans have been largely psi lnt about this. i haven't heard the leadership coming out and saying they may have in other instances, stop it already. what's going to happen with this? >> i think a lot of people are not recognizing that we are in our first tmz presidency, that whatever the president does it's some sort of grudge or the latest tirade against some sort of perceived villain for giving fair and accurate coverage of his presidency. but what you're missing is the overall strategy behind this on trump's part. it's about him selling to his base how successful he is, and if anybody says that it's not true, it's about discrediting them. >> my argument has been he's got that base. i was at an event last week with him in iowa, last week, i lose track of time with this new world we're in. i was with him and talked to a lot of people in line. they said to me nothing he can do or say is going to change my support for him, so why is he courting that base when he's going to need more than 37% to get stuff done? >> those are the base that are coming to the ral lies, but when they look at the health care bill and how it would impact them, the gutting medicaid -- >> so fix the health care bill. >> yeah, but that's not the president's m.o. it's easier to take a shot on twitter than it is to take a shot at health care. >> i want to play what sarah huckabee sanders said this week. this was before that wwe tweet. >> the president in no way form or fashion has ever promoted or encouraged violence of anything. quite the contrary. >> he also suggested we might remind people the second amendment people might be able to stop hillary clinton, said some other things including that famous thing, i could shoot someone on fifth avenue, but is this wwe harmless, maybe childish, or is it as the committee of journalists has suggested, something that could be dangerous? >> i think it's deeply irresponsible, but to be surprised by it -- >> i don't think anybody's really surprised. >> you'd have to be in a coma during the 2016 elections. >> the question is, is it dangerous, is it inciting violence? does it get his supporters to get riled up against the press? i think it's irresponsible. i think it's irresponsible. i don't think it's something he should be doing. but at the same time, it does remind me of the 2016 campaign where he goes out there, he tweets something, we all get lathered up about it, and we end up in this vicious cycle of trump doing something outrageous, us attacking trump for doing something outrageous, and everyone else is in viewpoints, everyone else's concerns, issues fete drowned out and that's in part how he got elected. hillary clinton, all her time was spent talking about him and none was spent talking about the issues that matter to most americans. so as a democrat, i'm just a little concerned we're getting caught up in this outrage psych that will helped get him elected in the first place. >> is the republican strategy back in washington -- most everybody is gone -- is the strategy whenever they can avoid it, don't caught about it when he does these kind of things? >> absolutely. i think that the republicans have decided he said what? oh, no, i couldn't possibly respond to that. i haven't seen it. i think that donald trump thinks that he's making jokes. i don't think that he realizes that as president of the united states these jokes can have consequences. and what is the scariest of all with this juvenile endeavor is the fact within hours of the time he put out that tweet he was also talking to the leaders of japan and china. that is a little scary. >> bob hits on something very interesting as well in that how it's perceived by the rest of the world. this is actually a gold mine to foreign intelligence services because it gives great insight into the president's state of mind anytime or any point in time. >> if you look at foreign newspapers to your point, this is on the front page at least of the website, not talking about the physical papers, maybe they are, if you go to the websites of a lot of foreign major papers, this video was there. >> if i'm a foreign intelligence operative trying to run a psychological profile on the president, this shows how he'd react in a crisis and it gives them an advantage, not only in the event of a crisis but in general negotiations. i think there are a lot of foreign countries who look at trump and think this is a guy easily flatter and manipulated by his own vanity. >> congressman ted lew said this earlier on msnbc. take a listen. >> i served in active duty in the u.s. military because i love america, and when he send our troops into harm's way, they need to know that the president is of sound mind, rational, and doing it for the right purposes, and these tweets make us question that. >> there are not a few people who have started to raise this very publicly. it was sort of behind the scenes before, people raising this point, is the president okay, people saying this is not the president -- person i knew ten years ago. is this still a bit of democratic hyperbole or is there a legitimate question here? >> look, i think -- i'm not big into the armchair psychiatry, the pundit psychiatry, but i do think it is a fair question to ask, whether he's acting in a responsible manner and he clearly isn't. i don't think it's necessarily responsible to go out there and, you know, be delivering diagnoses on television. but it is a fair question to ask. is it sending the right message. is it sending not just abroad, but when you have people like congressman gianforte in montana body slamming a reporter and reporters -- politicians more and more cutting off access to reporters, what message does it send to them? it sends a message to them that it's fine to make the press the enemy, it's fine to use physical violence gwen them, fine to shut them out of press conferences. that's where i think it can be a bit more krocorrosive. >> democrats do it too. bill de blasio only allows on topic questions for press conferences and he's been an embarrassment as a mayor. >> he's not the president of the united states. >> but he's happy donald trump is. >> the question to me is -- >> real quick, bob. >> -- psychologically fit, the question is he responsible enough to hold that very important office. >> to be continued. thank you all very much. the fight against isis, iraqi troops on the verge of taking back the key city in iraq. what it means for the future of isis. and, yes, outrage in the garden state. chris christie closes state beaches but photographers catch him with his toes in the sand. thank you is what we say. but we mean so much more. we mean how can we help? 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>> it's enormously important. first of all, kudos to richard engel who has so much courage to go into these tough situations. it's important because the entire islamic state caliphate, their claim to owning territory really rests on two cities, mosul in iraq and raqqah in syria. as richard says correctly, also from my sources, this is going to be over in a matter of weeks, not months. and that's going to take away about 50% of the real territory they have. over in raqqah, we're closing in on them as well with a syrian defense forces. when those two cities fall, it will be the beginning of the end of the islamic state in the middle east. >> let me ask you about how you think the trajectory of this battle is going to go, does it get worse before it gets better, because just this morning in mosul, two female suicide bombers who were hiding in a group that was fleeing civilians killed one soldier and injured several others, so will we see escalating attacks as they get desperate or is this going to wind down? i think it's going to wind down with a few episodic spikes, particularly in mosul, in iraq. again, the battle over in syria, that's coming against raqqah, i think you will see significant use of human shields, booby traps, maybe chemical weapons. they've had a long time over in syria to prep for that. it really is the center of the caliphate. look for more of that in raqqah in the coming months. i think mosul will wind down over the next several weeks if not the next month or so. >> and where does that leave us in iraq? >> it leaves us in a very good place in iraq. we should remember we have about 6,000 u.s. troops in iraq today that are supporting this effort. they are doing intelligence, cyber, operating drones, air strikes, training, mentoring these iraqi fighters. we are in a very good place, particularly, chris, compared to two years ago. when we saw the islamic state driving tank columns within 60 kilometers of baghdad, they've now been completely pushed out of that territory. mosul is kind of their last stand in iraq. once we're done with iraq, it's all hands on deck, turn to syria to get after raqqah. >> and then when we see that happen, give us a sense of where we are, how prepared we are, and what are the difficulties that we're going to see? >> two very different situations. in iraq, in mosul, the iraqi government has a reasonable plan to come into that zone. they're going to have to balance the sunni/shia/kurdish equities there. but the prime minister of iraq is turning out to be a surprisingly capable leader, and i think that situation post islamic state will go reasonably well by the standard of the he region. raqqah, syria, different story. this is the wild west. when that city falls, it's anybody's guess how it up folds. it's currently in the zone, controlled by the united states as opposed to that controlled by russia and the assad regime. so look to raqqah to be the center of a moderate sunni effort in syria that can stand against the assad regime. this is really playing chess, not checkers. >> admiral, always very much appreciate your insights. thank you. >> thanks a lot, chris. happy fourth. >> happy fourth. sunblocked. folks in new jersey can't go to state beaches this weekend, but governor christie can. the photo and the comments that have folks in the garden state burning mad. first a quick check of what's happening on wall street. this is a shortened day on monday. markets close at 1:00 p.m. you can see the dow up just slightly. noo introducing the easiest way to get gillette blades text "blades" to gillette on demand text to reorder blades with gillette on demand... ...and get $3 off your first order a trip back to the dthe doctor's office, mean just for a shot. but why go back there, when you can stay home... ...with neulasta onpro? 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what? >> i'm not going to go further because then i'd get into fat shaming. >> he looks good. he's lost some weigh. come on, his approval ratings are at historic lows. the latest quinnipiac poll has him at 81% disapproval, only 15% job approval. >> to the point that i don't think he cares anymore. can you see the similarity between what he's saying which is i'm governor, if you want to have use of these facilities, run for governor, and what donald trump said the other day, which is the media aren't president, we are, i am, that kind of thing. i think he's trying to in fact channel donald trump. >> evan, 15% job approval rating, the lowest of any governor in any state in the history of polling. you're a republican here. what is he thinking? >> he's checked out as being governor. it's one set of rules for him and another set for everybody else. >> five months he's supposed to be serving the people. he's taking the money and using the house. >> the middle of a government shutdown you're going out and doing this? such bad optics. this is what i've been railing against for years with republicans because we feed the beast of these narratives of we are the elitist party who doesn't care about everybody else. and things went like this, the chris christie, only hurts republicans overall and it's absolutely irresponsible of the him to do and he should apologize. >> what's amazing about this one photo is it captures in up with frame why people hate government so much because to evan's point, one set of rules for him, another for everyone else. and -- >> if you want the house at the beach, run for governor. >> it's no surprise if you look at governor cristy's history. when he was u.s. attorney, he would stay at five-star hotels while railing against government corruption. he shut down the arc tunnel project which would have saved a lot of people from congestion while taking helicopter ride to his son's soccer -- >> he was using the helicopter then. if you think he's shut down, does that say to you, either of you, any of the three of you, that he's thinking he's out of government for good so there's no price to pay for this or it is as lis was saying just sort of part and parcel of who chris christie is and next thing you know he could be running for senate? >> he'll be scooped up by some major law firm with a cushy deal where he doesn't have to work that hard and can spend time on probably a private beach he'll be able to afford. >> prosecution agreements. >> or he's going to become part of the trump administration because he has the trump administration attitude. >> the only thing donald trump has used him for his personal seamless app at this point. >> are there some things that are over the top because he uses his helicopter to go back and forth. that's the way a lot of governors get around. is that necessarily something -- is that more piling on than anything else? >> yeah. and, look, it is sort of, you know, poking taxpayers in the eye, but i really -- we've seen him be checked out since he started running for -- basically since he was re-elected and started running for president. this has been a major criticism of him. and i do think, yeah, sure, of course he could have a place in the trump administration because they seem to take a very lax view toward optics and ethics. >> you know, one of things also, though, that i was thinking about is if you're a resident of new jersey, and i have lots of friends who live in new jersey who pay good property taxes and pay good state taxes and they're looking at this and they say if he's which canned out, what do i do? what are my options as a citizen, as a taxpayer? you have none. >> no, and you'll go to a town hall and probably confront him and get yelled at by him for it. >> is he having town halls? >> no. maybe he's going to go out and have a town hall depending whatever the republicans come up with the health care issue. >> this is the thing is that his party's going to pay dearly for this. his lieutenant governor, kim gau da know, is running to replace him for governor, and she will probably lose handily because she's so closely tied to him. so if you want a change, phil murphy, the democratic candidate for governor, could use financial help. i would recommend helping him. >> to point i made earlier about the optics and it harms republicans overall. >> let's be cheer about this. i said it before. i think what we have here is a chris christie attitude of i don't care anymore. and he's probably using this picture as some sort of uniquely new jersey gesture. >> so when you hear that, when you hear, you know, i'm governor and you're not, and you hear the president of the united states saying, listen, members of the press, i'm president, and you're not, these are two guys who both ran for president, frankly, on the idea that washington was broken, the political system was broken. what kind of message is this from people who ran on that? >> it's a terrible message. it shows hypocrisy and you can't trust politicians. it's why the american people don't like them. if you look at what's been happening in the republican party and the crisis in terms of demographic crisis, between december 2015 and march 2017, among republicans aged 18 to 29, 23% left the party. that's astounding. >> that is astounding. >> things like this absolutely help people leave. >> thank you all very much. coming up, finding your local lawmaker once they're out of washington might just be tough. and getting them to hear you may be even tougher. a lot more on that in just a minute. boost. it's about moving forward, not back. it's looking up, not down. it's being in motion. in body, in spirit, in the now. boost® high protein it's intelligent nutrition with 15 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. for when you need a little extra. boost® the number one high protein complete nutritional drink. be up for it \s i work overtime when i can get it. i need my blood sugar to stay in control. so i asked about tresiba®. ♪ tresiba® ready ♪ tresiba® is a once-daily, long-acting insulin that lasts even longer than 24 hours. i need to cut my a1c. ♪ tresiba® ready ♪ tresiba® works like my body's insulin. releases slow and steady. providing powerful a1c reduction. my week? 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thanks. >> you want to build a quote community of angelic troublemakers. what exactly does that mean? >> as the a baird ruston quote, a civil rights leader and organizer and someone behind the logistics of showing up for justice. what we have at indivisible, average of 13 groups, locally led in every single congressional district in the country. these are folks standing up to make their voice heard in their congressional districts and back home when their senators are there right now this week for recess. what they're saying if you take away my health insurance i'll be bankrupt or dead and why you need to vote for me and not for donald trump's healthcare plan. >> there are some of these, we have watched them, people have gotten very upset and angry when they've been very disruptive. there is another argument to be made, the people showing up, congress, senate, holding these town halls, don't they have a right to be heard. do you support some of the people who have truly disrupted the ability of the people there to get their questions answered to get their questions answered. >> i absolutely think folks should have their questions answered. we advise you have a right as a constituents to have your voice heard. that means you need to get a response! it is important to ask a question, be polite, be firm but get that response. what we're trying to do right now is insure representatives are listening to their constituents. so few senate republicans are holding town halls, in response to that we have seen local indivisible groups putting on their own events to try to shine a light what is happening in the senate right now. >> does it accomplish anything? i was on the hill last week and talked to a lot of democratic senators. their concern people get out and march and protest. we saw it over the weekend, people calling for president trump to be impeached. they're not sure a lot of this is put into what they consider positive action. are they going to get enough of those people who go door-to-door for their congressional candidates? are they going to volunteer other than getting together with like-minded people, putting up their signs and marching and feeling they've accomplished something? >> absolutely it works. last week, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, a very skilled legislator tried to get the senate healthcare bill in a rush. tried to keep it secret and rush it through. he was desperately trying to get it done by friday for one reason. congressional recess started this week and he did not want a week of public attention on it. he was unable to do that for one simple reason also, people showed up across the country in republican states, democratic states, people saying, hey, slow down a minute. we need time to provide some input on this. because of that, you saw republicans and democrats coming out and saying, okay, we're not going to get this done this week. we've already seen this work. now, the big question, will constituents continue showing up? we see this happening in florida and georgia and south carolina and colorado and maine. >> are you tracking this? if you have 200 people show up at one of these events calling on their member of congress, senator to hold a public town hall, how many of those people turn that activism into direct action, in other words, sign up to do something else that will have a very direct impact? >> right. so, what we would argue is this is having a very direct impact. right now, the fight in front of us is the healthcare fight. next year, there is going to be a fight around elections. there's this funny thing when you get hundreds of thousands of people organized in a congressional district to fight on legislation. once the elections come around they show up for that, too. we have seen that in special elections in kansas and georgia 6. there has been incredible turnout and those doing organizing, knocking on doors, getting out the vote. yes, right now the fight is on healthcare and right now people holding their own town halls or showing up at their own town halls and pretty soon it will be for elections because they will hold their senators and representatives accountable. >> report the presidential advisor, steve bannon, wants tax reform in the shape of higher taxes on the walt the. late night last, courtesy of john oliver. >> that news overshadowed regarding the president's travel ban maintaining it's not a ban despite what you heard from media people like the president of the united states and the dictionary. so that's the idea. what do you think? hate to play devil's advocate but... i kind of feel like it's a game changer. i wouldn't go that far. are you there? he's probably on mute. yeah... gary won't like it. why? because he's gary. 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