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It sounded like there was an opening for a bipartisan deal. as schumer quickly communicated, he said repeal and replace is a nonstarter for us. twhen president was on the south lawn, he said that s what republicans want. repeal and replace. that s what i want as well. so the idea that there could be some bipartisan program going forward seems off the table. he a appears to be trying to fix the system as best he can. the year is coming to an end. all right, peter, randall, garrett. and by the way peter and garrett, you better step up. see the hat randall s rocking today? step it up. thanks so much. we re going to take a break. stick around, everybody. we re getting some gop reaction to trump s latest attacks including tensions with iran and north korea. that s not silly talk. that s serious business. next i ll speak with florida s republican congressman francis rooney. he s a member of the house foreign affairs committee. as master sergeant. ....
Is a guy in 2010 who said what we need to do is bitch slap the republican party. he also said our backup strategy is to f up hillary clinton so bad she can t govern. and there s steve bannon talking about common decency. that s rich. rich like his wall street backers that he denies he has. but this morning trump ally and former speaker gingrich warned the president against alienating corker. that s been probably the biggest weak neness has been no working together. the president will not get his major things done without bob corker. joining me now peter alexander at the white house. garrett haake live in south carolina. and randall lane who interviewed the president for that extraordinary forbes piece. got to start with you, randall. we are all talking about trump wanting to pair iq tests with tillerson. first of all, he s joking, is he not? ....
Peter, to randall s point earlier the president loves to tout himself a deal guy. and president trump supporters say he s ready to make a deal. he said in another tweet this morning he would use, quote, the power of the pen to give americans great health care with so many failed tries. why does he keep going back to this? he s got to pen. he s used the pen for all those executive orders that do nothing but have his own team write big reports. what is the power of the pen he s speaking about? reporter: well, it seems to be he s touting the potential for an executive order of some kind. no timeline for that. no specificity on what it would be. the understanding is this would be something rand paul has been championing that would allow americans to purchase their health insurance across state lines. be clear, stephanie. i was on the south lawn this past weekend when i was pressing president trump on his conversation with chuck schumer basically saying that he called schumer on friday. h ....