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Many have indicated they dont want him to serve in the senate. >> well, theres two layers to this. one is the immediate political cost. theres going to be a much harder push for tax reform, tax cuts if you have a 51/49 margin. beyond that, this is just a stunning turn of events of an awful week for the republican party. on tuesday, there was a mass repudiation of trumpism at the ballot box. then we had a story about trumps former national security advi adviser being investigated for a plot to ki...

If it had gone from a 70/30 vote to a 51/49 vote because of russian meddling but the same side had still won, the outcome might have been skewed but it was not changed. and i think bouncing back and forth between definitions of affecting fundamentally and so forth is one of the sources of confusion. >> well, he said flatly it did not affect the outcome. >> outcome. >> so in other words what youre suggesting is what pompeo was saying was accurate? >> yes, i think if it didnt affect the outcome --...

Left. is the aca basically safe now? >> i think it probably is, but this is not done. you cannot underestimate how much pressure there is from republican donors, there was an article in the "new york times" about this today on republican members to repeal obamacare. so even though mccain essentially drove a stake through it, this is not over and people should not stop calling their representatives. this is a terrible piece of legislation which everybody in the health care sector, the insurance c...

Other topics they would like to tackle? >> theyve got an awful lot to do, none of which are small. you have tax reform which is the white houses priority and the republican conferences priority, both in the senate and the house. you have a budget that they need to get through that they are going to have to pass before december 15th. and thanks to donald trump, you have immigration reform and an act to deal with the d.r.e.a.m.ers. theyre going to go handle the issue that still bedeviled them more...

As a viewers guide. lets say its 51/49 in the senate. repeal and replace passes, what happens to it then? >> well, i think if it passes, the chances of it getting through the house are pretty good. its most helpful to think about this, brian, in terms of the political importance for republicans. when they failed to repeal obamacare both in the house and in the senate, the air really went out of the balloon for them. the dismay that you heard from the voices of republican voters, especially in cr...

Warning to g.o.p. senators to get in line part of the president ... secretary bennetts, that goes to your point exactly. so will the sort of outside pressure be the coalescing force for republicans who are straying towards the no side. >> bill: there is not enough there. you are right about the republican party. this is a consequence of the majority party, you end up having the factions, and you have moderates, you have people who some of us would call liberals, and real conservatives. this is t...

>> trish: you believe he can do it. >> bill: i say it is 51/49 against because of mitch mcconnell. i agree with all of you about the consequences. it is a terrible consequence. terrible either way. this is a problem. remember ted cruz said when we get this thing, we are going to be living with it as a nightmare forever. >> kennedy: he was right with cassondra. apparently ill, claims that former attorney general loretta lynch wanted to stop death hillary clinton email probe. ahead, how lawmakers ...

Things going on here. surely politically democrats would love to have this stay in the news because it puts the president on the defensive and raises questions about how he became president. on the oth hand -- and you have to listen carefully to what democrats are saying. i would say its a 51/49 proposition, the 49% being politics. 51% of it, including republicans like senator lindsey graham, they are really concerned about russias impact on the last presidential election and what that says abou...

Traitor and should pay a heavier price. its 51/49 call, i think should hear from the president but i think compassion moved him. >> not heard a lot from democrats and this is a difficult call for anyone to weigh in. some folks will say she was a leaker, a whistleblower but a lot of people in america think that in fact chelsea manning was a traitor and caused lives to be put on the line. think this story has legs in the sense that for the same republicans right now or critics of wikileaks angry a...

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