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You got to kind of capitulate to get it done, i am putting a word in his mouth there. i think it s a bit of a cop out. there is no question about the fact that the democrats were saying if you are going to increase military spending you have to increase domestic spending but he also said what we really need to do is deal with entitlement. the fact of the matter is there is no interest in congress but in the majority in either the house of the senate, no interest in entitlement reform. remember donald trump campaign for president in 20 saying he wasn t going to touch medicaid. there is no interest in dealing with entitlements by either party and there is no chance that s going to happen the rest of this year. harris: has the white house said why the bipartisan bills that were put forth, particularly in the senate, you know the one with graham and ....
Easily defeated the trump endorsed candidate, and exit polls showed 57% of people who came out to vote disapprove of donald trump. in new jersey, voters elected a democrat to succeed chris christie who was the first republican governor to endorse the trump presidential campaign. in maine, voters defied their trump supporting governor, and voted for a ballot initiative to expand medicaid. in the virginia election, danica roane made history as the first transgender senator in the united states. she ran against him and won. the latest poll finds that 52% want democrats to control congress next year. democrats might have much more to be thankful about a year from now. joining us now, ezra klein, ....
Primal scream of the campaign, build the wall. let s listen to the trump promise on that. i will build a great, great wall on our southern border. and i will have mexico pay for that wall. yes! mark my words. ezra klein, the report card, does it look good on those two tests? no, it doesn t look good on any of his policy promises, this is something we have learned about trump. it s something people didn t realize about him coming in. everybody knew trump wasn t a policy details guy. there was a view that what he had were strong policy intuitions, he cared about the wall. he said he was not going to touch medicaid, medicare or social security. he meant it, he maybe didn t know how he wouldn t touch it, he meant it. so what trump would be is a manager, he would have people ....
Medicaid, to slow down the increases into the future. when they start laying these things out saying that s not a doable deal or if they come back in and say, and by the way, we want the concept of obamacare to continue on and our message is is when you don t have any competition and you ve run all the competition off, that s not going to work. so, look, eventually i really do believe that republicans and democrats will find ways to fine tune it, but we ve got to change the direction of health care in this country. i wish this was not on a partisan basis. it is. we re recognizing it. we ve got to take the first stems. it s the best we can do right now, but we re running out of time because come january first we re going to have fewer markets out there under obamacare. everybody is recognizing that. we can t sit back and say we re going to wait another year. i ve got to ask you about what s going on with jeff sessions. yeah. how do you think the president is handling this. you k ....
Parliamentary moves it requires. we re getting nothing done, my friends. we re getting nothing done. i guess, senator, call the democrats bluff. as you know many democrats have said if you get out of this reconciliation process and say, look, at this point it s clear the best you guys can agree to is more of a reform of obamacare, not a full repeal and replace, which is where the democrats are, why not pull reconciliation and take john mccain s advice? because at this point we don t think that they re actually interested in providing us relief. and, look, we re talking with friends on the other side of the aisle. they ve made it very clear that the first step has got to be ours. they recognize that this is a political opportunity. and even our good colleagues on the other side say there are certain things that you cannot touch of the you cannot touch medicaid. that s a nonstarter and we re looking at this saying, yeah, but it s not sustainable. this is an opportunity to actually s ....