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To stop this from going any further. and it s interesting that sean spicer resigning and anthony scaramucci coming in could be the red line. and potentially reince priebus leaving could be the red line where suddenly republicans on capitol hill say, hey, listen who is protecting us any longer? and how are we going to get what we want to get done. and who is in the white house that we can call? according to somebody in the white house i just spoke to. reince priebus is paul ryan s guy. my source is saying reince has gone to great lengths to keep scara scaramucci out there. he has been willing to skillfully skin the most difficult topics on behalf of the president. and you said it earlier, he looks the part. he acts the part. even sort of the gary kohn of ....
Happens. if they re having if unexpected, as senator toomey told us, opportunity to actually govern and they fail to govern, the base who has been promised for seven years now that it s going to be ripped out root and branch is going to have a beef. and they can t not they can t say, well, obamacare is failing, which is not actually accurate, but they re doing their best to make it fail. we have a rural problem they have to solve. i think what s been striking based on my conversations with people at white house and on capitol hill is that they have two completely different versions of a plan b. you have people at the white house saying, if this doesn t pass, we do want to just repeal and then replace down the line. folks on capitol hill say, that s not realistic. that ship has sailed. we have to work with democrats to try to stabilize the market, ....
Too specific. i want to get to health care because that s huge. is this painting a picture of tax reform and saying, look, we re getting to it but we re not going to get something passed before the 100 days. i think that s part of it. i think they realize that this is a really big and difficult task ahead of them. a lot of the republicans that i spoke to on capitol hill say, look, if you thought there was disagreement on health care and discord, wait until tax reform comes. there s going to be a lot when it comes to specific level tax cuts. the border adjustment idea that house gop leaders have put foth. there s complicated matters that need to get sorted out. there s an element here of the president saying, i m going to take a step toward doing this. this is something we ve said from day one that we ll pursue but make no mistake about it, this is going to be a very, very difficult challenge for this congress and this president to get done soon. ....
i ve never been more disappointed in the body than i am today. you won t let us have a vote. you won t let us have debate. and please stop saying this deal makes israel safer. that s cruel. martha: that s cruel. south carolina senator lindsey graham after democrats block a resolution rejecting the iran nuclear deal. joining us now florida senator and republican presidential candidate marco rubio. senator, good to have you here this morning. there is so much frustration on the deal. we spoke as you probably heard senator mcconnell who basically said there is bipartisan opposition to the iran deal and i think people at home, you know, who may not be that familiar with interworkings of the procedural efforts on capitol hill say, well, how does that work then? you know, you ve got republican senate, republican house and you can t get rid of this deal? yeah. ....
Bad political bet. so they re now focused on the big fights coming, the debt crisis, the continuing resolution. the problem with that is they think they have leverage and i m not sure they do because, again, the consequences of making that again such a political battle jim, talk to that. why do you guys have leverage? a lot of republicans on capitol hill say, look, we should too much blood on this tax fight but we are more than happy to bring the president to his knees over these budget wars in the next 60 to 90 days. explain why you guys have such good leverage. i think the leverage is pretty simple. we ve given the president his tax increases on the rich. the rich people are saying more or however the president wants to say it. so that part is off the table. now we get to concentrate on the spending. this president has run trillion dollar deficits every single year and he s had no interest in trying to slow those down. i think over the next 60 days ....