opinion from progressive to pretty conservative. but what is troubling to me is that you have two senators who are not just prepared to fight for their ideas, but they have said, it s my way or the highway. if you don t do what i want, mr. president or members of the democratic caucus, i m walking away from here and that is an arrogance i think is unacceptable. any member of the democratic caucus can do that. as you well know, i happen to believe the current health care system is dysfunctional. i believe in a medicare for all system. i could walk away and say if the medicare for all isn t in there, i m walking away, but i won t do that. what bothers me is people like manchin turning their backs on the people of this country and basically saying if i don t get everything i want, i m not going
that president trump s budget has the largest cut in medicare ever. jon: he said medicare for all isn t going to work. what democrats will tell you privately they re concerned this is elizabeth warren s mondale moment. every democratic candidate who has gone on to fail has either been a walter mondale who said he wanted to raise taxes or dukakis or kerry. i m waiting for the republicans to come up with a healthcare plan of any sort which they haven t done. we ve talked about transparency. he has done things helped bring prescription costs down. senator bozeman has a plan in the u.s. senate that talks about bringing more residency