Okay. Here we go. It is midnight here in new york city, 9 00 p. M. Out on the west coast i am jen psaki msnbcs special coverage of Super Tuesday. I have some of my favorite people, as always, the midnight shift is the best shift as i like to say, to talk to here at the big table to break down everything that happened today. We will learn more tonight, too and we do have a lot to talk about because results from 16 states and one territory, dont forget that one, just brought us one big step closer to a rematch between resident joe biden and donald trump. As of this moment, on the republican side, trump has unsurprisingly won a bunch of state so far. Bringing his total number of delegates over 100, not enough to clinch the nomination but it is making it nearly impossible if not impossible for nikki haley to do that. So we just take a second to look at from by the numbers, just to catch everybody up here, that is four indictments, 91 criminal charges, to impeachments. 911 delegates as of t
republicans will secure enough votes to pass their health care bill. they ve lost two. they re at 50 they can t afraid another loss. outside of a few remarks and a couple of twitter post-s, the president however hasn t done much else to drum up public support or sway reluctant members of his own party. shannon, jason and jim are back with us. jason here is the question. is the gop better off if the president owns it or stays away from it? i think they d be better off if the president owns it. to be perfectly honest with you brian, donald trump for all of the problems associated with him he is the best sales person for this plan. he has to be out in front of it. he needs to do a sit-down and explain this bill. i ve said all along it s like jing an you can t pull out pieces without the whole thing falling apart the only way they re lift going out of the 12 to 17% approval rating is if
1. because this is a real human issue causing genuine anxiety. well especially arizona. every single one of our counties next year will only have one insurer available on the obamacare exchanges. we re going to see probably 25% increase in premiums after 116% increase last year the largest of any state. people want to see something done. the problem is your colleague chuck todd and i were talking this morning on my show. he pointed out the senate health care bill really as rand paul had explained to me a couple days before that really is obamacare in a lot of ways. i mean it keeps a lot of the regulations keeps a lot of the taxes. and it kind of sets it up so that when the democrats are back in pou as we all know they will be at some point another they can reinsert everything that is taken out if even if it may fall
that green lights to them you re kind of a willing target. you re someone they can do business with in the future. you ve got it perfectly, brian. it s so interesting, nearly every current and former intelligence officer you toek l speak to about in seems to have the same view. it s the one you just articulated. and what they say is it doesn t matter with whether this lawyer and lobbyist were dupes, were willing participants had a different story or you know the point is that the overture came in an offer of help from the russian government pan came through the agalarovs who had a business relationship with the trump family they were build being trump tower in moscow they were together on the miss university pageant in moscow. the overture came in through a known person. and the trump organization showed it was willing to take the meeting.
streets of any city or town in your state, i am guessing thoughts questions and concerns about health care outnumber the same about russia, about 10 to 1. because this is a real human issue causing genuine anxiety. well especially arizona. every single one of our counties next year will only have one insurer available on the obamacare exchanges. we re going to see probably 25% increase in premiums after 116% increase last year the largest of any state. people want to see something done. the problem is your colleague chuck todd and i were talking this morning on my show. he pointed out the senate health care bill really as rand paul had explained to me a couple days before that really is obamacare in a lot of ways. i mean it keeps a lot of the regulations keeps a lot of the taxes. and it kind of sets it up so