Get done given the fact that they don t have reconciliation, they ve got to pass it with nine democratic votes in the senate, and you ve got the midterms coming up in november? but even before they begin negotiating with democrats and it is, of course, the kindç of pivot that we had anticipated from the president really from the beginning, reach out to democrats, infrastructure, find ways to build this new populist, almost centrist in some way domestic policy agenda. but they have a big rhubarb to settle among republicans before they figure out what they re going to do there, because they made a lot of promises to idealogically disparate republicans in order to get the tax bill passed. that bill is coming due really in january through march as they have to deal with daca, illegal immigrants brought to the united states as minors, they have to deal with questions ofvsx fixing obamacare or patching obamacare for the year, different promises to differentç people. and then on top o
Companies. it s not accurate. the bailout term is used by republicans and you can decide this one at home, ladies and gentlemen, but it s money that goes to insurance companies that helps them, encourages to them to stay in this marketplace. so call it what you will, but the center piece of this is money, i ll call it money, to insurance company frs the federal government. you can call it a subsidy, a bailout, whatever you want, but it s money. that is what the bill is. is this proof that the president, the last the president talks to. he said he was for it the other day. that this is fixi ining obamaca. we are not voting on something that fixed obamacare. so then the white house said no, we re against it. and nourng he s open to it? it s intended to be if you walk the halls on capitol hill? how do they deal with this? from republican, this would be a hard vote for a lot of kopzs to take because they would be fixing obamacare. they would need to know the president was going to
Has to be married up with reform. i appreciate what senator alexander tried to do with senator murray to get flexibility so the money going into the system will get better results. senator johnson s working on a broader list of reforms. i think there are a lot of republicans willing to continue the payments if the patients benefit and we can get reform to a broken obamacare system. nobody believes this fixing obamacare permanently but plenty of republicans are willing to continue the payments including the president if you get rereform. senator alexander s bill is not enough for many people. maybe senator johnson can close that gap. reporter: thanks very much for your time, sir. and chris jansing, i think you may still be with me live. just talking to senator lindsey graham. did we miss something? probably joined about 15, 20 seconds in. what did we miss at the top
Themselves with glee over this. this is an area where the president is setting up a war between himself and members of his own party. because they are going to, jeremy is exactly right, they are going to own it, but the president has no problem saying, you ran on repealing and fixing obamacare. you didn t do it. i m doing this. and it s your job to paush the black onto members of your own party. and i was early to file for the today show and wake up to another series of presidential tweets about this topic that happened overnight, where the president said massive subsidy payments to democrats, pet insurance companies has stopped. dems should call me to fix, he tweeted. should he be expecting a range from chuck and nancy here? i don t think so. he won t get a phone call from chuck and nancy on this one, not the way he wants. i think the president will try to cut some kind of deal because, to your point, he knows now that the y will be stuck in
Stuck. i don t have the numbers in front of me but i believe it is something like 370 bills have been passed in the house and about 280 are still in the senate. obviously the most notable of those is the obamacare, or some kind of repeal and replace. there are many more bills that have received less he headlines. do you think mitch mcconnell is bad at his job? i liked his strategy and how it played out with gorsuch. i feel like the dog caught the car and didn t have a plan in terms of repealing and replacing obamacare or fixing obamacare. we ve got the senate majority, 52 senators, also potentially the tie breaking vote if we need and it mitch mcconnell doesn t seem to be able to get the caucus to go in the right line. for me i feel like the obamacare repeal and replace has been