with former presidential rival and republican senator rand paul. the two talked health care, apparently, and senator paul struck an optimistic tone afterwards. listen opinion. we had a great day with the president today. we did talk about some health care reform. i think the sides are getting closer and closer together, and i remain very optimistic that we will get an obamacare repeal. thanks. thank you, senator. alex burns is with me. amy is co-chair of women vote trump. margaret worked in the george w. bush white house and we have the national director of the new york state democratic party. margaret, what do you think of this golf course i can t say it, you know what i m going. golf course diplomacy? what do you think? look, it s going to take more than a round of golf to get health care done, but it is a good start. they should have done it before. the whole thing crashed and burned. he did a lot of meetings beforehand. he did a lot of meetings.
to share ideas and additional ways forward. so there has been a discussion and i believe there will be several more. what would you say to the folks who have a genuine concern that if you will could not get health care done, how do you go about getting big ticket items like tax reform and infrastructure done? people say if you can t get one, how are you going to do the next? again, i think as i i mean, we re going to build a coalition for this. i think each of them have different con tet wstituent. i don t want to prejudge. outcome at this point. john. thank you, sean. we ll do both. all right. sorry for jessica.
to share ideas and additional ways forward. so there has been a discussion and i believe there will be several more. what would you say to the folks who have a genuine concern that if you could not get health care done, how do you go about getting big ticket items like tax reform and infrastructure done? people say if you can t get one, how are you going to do the next? what would you say to that concern? again, i think as i mentioned, i mean we re going to build a coalition for this. i think each of them have different constituencies and i think we re going to work with member es of both sides of the aisle on both of those big ticket issues to see where we can find agreement and move towa forward. i don t want to prejudge the outcome at this point. john? thank you, sean. we ll do both. all right. first. i ll stick with and then go [ inaudible ]. sorry, francesca. john. thank you, sean. and then john and matt.
dominic said. well, you never say that. because guess what? the market goes up and goes down and it doesn t always have a lot to do with what s happening behind us. compared to health care, tax reform is a lot simpler, is he right about that? he s right. not a lot. i m in the camp that says there will be some tax cuts coming. it seems to be a theme out this morning that because they just couldn t get health care done, that they re not going to be able to do tax cuts first of all, they don t have the money that they thought they were going to get from health care. in addition to that you know if there s a middle class tax cut that the republicans are going to come back with the estate tax and capital gains. absolutely. where do you find that middle ground? i don t know if there s going to be much middle ground, but i do believe this. you re right the way you portrayed it. what s going to happen is they re going to start singling that if they re going to say maybe we don t
better coverage. he provided no details. then he became president and discovered something that anybody who spent 20 minutes on health care would have known all along, it s complicated. now he s reaping the consequences of having just discovered that. it is really complicated. there are cross pressures. it s not only complicated for getting health care done, it s complicated for getting to tax reform, as you say. for complicated and almost incomprehensible budgetary reasons, what they want to pass as part of getting rid of the affordable care act are essential to being able to pass more tax cuts in the tax reform package. ruth is winning the prize of the day. she doesn t realize. my favorite line of the administration so far has been, no one knows how complicated health care is. actually, a lot of people do. it s really hard. we are going to talk about other stuff going on today.