Stars. Tonight a new low for the Trump Presidency after last nights victory for the resistance. Where the white house goes from here. They should have approved health care last night. But you cant have everything. And how collins, murkowski and john mccain may have saved obamacare. This is clearly a disappointing moment. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Reince priebus is out. Anthony scaramucci has ascended and the Trump Administration is reeling after one of the most dramatic votes in recent Senate History brought an end, at least for now, to the gops sevenyear effort to repeal obamacare. President trump announcing he is replacing Reince Priebus with john kelly. Reince is a good man. Failure legislative ly. I think when this wait a minute the plan, it seems pretty clear that there was a lot of build up. From the very beginning in this administration, people were fighting with Reince Priebus. There were a lot of reports in steve bannon and Reince Priebus gettin
around and started heading away from donald trump for the first time. when donald trump shut down the government, mitch mcconnell s position was he would not consider even bringing up a bill to a vote in the senate if the president did not already approve of that bill while it was being negotiated. we re not interested in having show votes here in the senate. we re interested in bringing up something, the house has passed, 60 senators will support, and the president will sign. and that is all over. the constitutional truth of the matter is that the president only has as much legislative power as congress decides to let the president have. this week mitch mcconnell decided to take his power pack from president trump. mitch mcconnell agreed to a bipartisan legislative package without president trump s approval, and then mitch mcconnell scheduled that bill for a vote on the senate floor
without president trump saying that he supported that bill. and only when even president trump s people could see that the bill mitch mcconnell was bringing to the senate floor was going to get over 80 votes, only then did donald trump let mitch mcconnell announce that donald trump supports it. it s a whole new ball game in the united states senate because of that procedure. mitch mcconnell decided he no longer needs donald trump s support to bring a bill to a vote, and that alone is a devastating blow to trumpism in the united states senate. on days like this, we need experienced political observers who can see the big picture in all the individual maneuvers of the day. joining is john holland, national affairs analyst for nbc and msnbc. also with us, rick wilson a republican strategist and contributor to the daily beast, author of the book everything
from the democratic presidential primary debate. it will occur on this netnetwor? june. you can see it here on msnbc and telemundo. we don t know what the most perfect questions will be in june. if the debate will be held next week, one of the big questions would be about the vote cast in the senate today. some of the senators who are running for president voted for the budget agreement and some voted against it. today s vote shows us how those candidates positioning itself in the campaign or the debate, that s coming up in jiune. we ll take a look at how the candidates voted after this break. capital one cafes. inviting places with people here to help you, not sell you. and savings and checking accounts with no fees or minimums.
elizabeth warren did not run? senator markey s staff told us he voted against the bill because u.s. immigration and custom enforcement have been over spending its budget and expanding its detention capacities by manipulating the program. we did not hear from senator booker or gillibrand or klobachar on why they voted the way they did. with so many senators running for president now. every major senate vote is going to be an important campaign moment because now, now before these senators vote, they re going to have to know how they ll defend that vote on the presidential debate stage which is now only four months away. that s tonight s last word. t the 11th hour with brian williams starts now.