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of us are different. the media environment is different. as you can see from the dominion voting machines lawsuit, the sort of patience that some people have for this kind of behavior has worn really thin. and, look, there s some patience that s been lost among republicans, too, members of congress, people who have seen what happened, the election cycle last week. the number two republican, john thune told me that independent voters were just not having all of the election denialism happening in the gop ranks. they rejected those who embraced that theory. leadership types, they thought this was the wrong way to go, how do gop voters and how do some candidates in the states feel. in some way is this a refreshing map. after 2020, we had lawsuits and recount demands and protests in battleground state after battleground state. this year, there s a recount going on, voting rights passed
republican leadership types sort of say in the past couple of days that he is the best messenger when it comes to saying to the base this is what we have done, this is what we re going to do. if you keep republicans in power. he speaks to a voter that other establishment republicans can t reach. and if he s out there talking, there s a theory that, you know, these trump voters who otherwise wouldn t show up at the polls will come out and vote for him. of course, that s risky. we heard the president call stormy daniels horseface just a couple of days, and everybody, all the republicans were kind of, oh, groaning, because they have a problem with suburban women who are turning against the president and turning from republicans and going to democrats. this is the key voting block. he s got to be careful, and we know that the president misspeaks and says controversial things quite often. so it s a bit of a mixed bag. but they re taking the risk because they need the trump voters again if t
and it could get worse for house members. the carrot is you have paul ryan and other leadership types who are saying, listen, this isn t the end-all/be-all vote. this is one vote. there are going to be more votes. if you don t like it, vote against it then but don t stop the process now. they re also hearing from the senate, right, that it s doa. how dare you! i mean, come on, you re one stop short of talking about reconciliation with me right now. stick with me, here. joining me now is republican congressman mark walker of north carolina, the chairman of the very important republican study committee. congressman, thanks so much for the time. sure, happy to do it. for our viewers, when this whole process began, you were a no. you are now a yes. was it the bill that improved or was it the president that won you over and got you there? well, i believe it was a combination. a week ago last thursday evening, we negotiated throughout the evening for four
what is going to be in it is not entirely clear but some house republican leadership types are showing willingness to do fine tuning. we re working out some final details to make the bill even better. there s some great conservative wins already in this bill. also the most important thing is it achieves the goals that both president trump and house republicans have been talking about for years. reporter: as some are already trying to play the blame game on this house republican package to address our health care in this country. speaker paul ryan today noted that the president and the white house has been involved from the very beginning. he s saying they re all in it together. melissa? melissa: thank you. isis troops forced their way into a key neighborhood in mosul, iraq. the main government compound and a slew of neighborhoods on the