chassis, it does strengthen the hand of some of the republicans in the house and the senate were not part of the freedom caucus group because it basically says president trump is willing to make a deal so you are not going to get your hard-line point of view. it s true, i think he is dining with the democrats because he makes a better dinner guest. chuck and nancy over mitch and paul? trump likes nancy, she s glamorous, she s funny. a lot in common with truck, there from new york. think maybe that s one the reasons. i think he s doing this because he couldn t govern with partisan majorities in the house. republicans in the house and senate, they shouldn t be upset by this. they gave birth to this. if they had passed repeal and replace it would have been governing with partisan majorities, that would ve been already on by late july to tax reform. that would ve been fine but he pivoted out of it and he s now going to be like the prime minister where you try to forge these kinds of bi
Life. well, look, brian, there are 247 members of the republican majority. there will be 246 when john boehner resigns. that s one of their largest governing coalitions in a very long time. the problem is, and this has been the problem since they returned to the majority in 2010 is that there s 30 or so people that will not be on board on almost anything that the lordship wanlord leadership wants. paul ryan is the only person in those 247 that could get 218 republican votes, as he s on the way to doing right now. when i dialed in just now, there had been two votes for dan webster. every other republican for him. john boehner couldn t get those votes. i think his resignation did have to do with his time spent with the pope, but also had to do with political reality, which was it was not going to get better for him. i don t even think john boehner in his most optimistic days