we are marching ever closer to the midterms in 2018. the closer we get to that there s going to be both sides not so much making a calculation on what can be fixed but who can be blamed for it. and the kind of discussion that we ve had here today is going to be greater. if you assume premiums go up and insurance companies do pull out of the markets and there s a worsening of the situation at large, it s going to be democrats fighting to blame the republicans for it and trump and the republicans and trump trying to figure out how to deflect that. why would democrats work with republicans at this point. it s a perfect midterm wedge issue. and the democrats aren t going to be all that eager so take back ownership as bakari said of the issue if it looks like, if the polls are suggesting that in fact around the country republicans in districts are taking on water for this. and just to emphasize the
Get done and you assume that the premiums do go up and insurance companies do pull out of the markets and there is a worsening of the situation at large, it s going to be democrats fighting to blame the republicans and trump and the republicans and trump trying to figure out how to deflect that. why would democrats work with republicans it s a great midterm wedge issue. the democrats are not going to be eager to take back ownership of the issue if it looks like, if the polls are suggesting that, in fact, around the country republicans in districts are taking on water for this. just to emphasize the point how unlikely it is for congress to deal with this, they have to do a budget before the government shuts down, they have to do income tax reform, which is their big accomplishment they want. the president put daca on their laps and today the president put iran on their laps. all of which suggests that
Good morning. nicole, i hand you the first question. what an honor. i ve heard you say that you don t want to be critical of fellow republicans. i think in tone, that s the right idea. but why not give our party some straight talk? why not point out what is helpful and what is not helpful when you re running a state, and you know exactly how the partisan politics play out in the real world, if you will. absolutely. what we said is i m not interested in second-guessing tactics, but part of the rationale behind this, where we ve got 30 republican governors. we said we re going to stop outsourcing our brand in washington, d.c., because if you want to see conservative ideas being applied, it s not happening in d.c. don t you have to shush them a little bit if you want to take back ownership of the republican brand? we re absolutely starting paid advertisements to do that. and so, for example, if you want to see school choice, balanced budgets, tax cuts, folks taking on public pen