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Repeal what they believed was the wrong direction of health care reform in obamacare. the president ran promising every single day on the campaign trail that he wanted to repeal obamacare and replace it with something that was something that was, as he said another trail, bigger, better, more beautiful. and that was going to get everybody covered. but the senate, like this is the role of the senate. george washington once said the senate is the saucer that cools the tea cup. so they want to be m...

Plan that they could all get behind. doesnt look that way. cnn political commentators kevin madden, matt lewis, andre bower. nothing is easy when it comes to washington and politics. thats something we can all agree on, correct? >> yeah. >> in washington, they do two things well. do nothing, or overreact. >> lets talk about all of that. kevin, conservatives are lining up against this, house republicans plan to repeal and replace obamacare. heres what senator tom cotton tweeted. he said, house he...

Of as companies like boeing are thinking about where they put jobs in the future. >> absolutely. >> yeah, yeah. andre, nia, rana and ana, thank you all so much. its a great conversation. thank you very much. coming up, breaking news involving president trumps nominee to run the epa, scott pruitt. senator ted cruz reacting to this and more. thats ahead stphraofp. and is president trump stealing a page from his summer of 16 playbook, leaning on the style that landed him if the white house in t...

Gorsuch. >> yes. >> the leaking from his own staffers at times and giving a portrait of a man in over his head with people around him in fighting, looking for control, looking to put themselves in positions so they can be in control. that was apparently a control of harwood. this idea of whether or not he could bring his own team in. the last four weeks was an advertisement of people who might want to work in the white house. we know there are these cabinet department positionings that havent be...

Peace, it hasnt worked with the people who know all the things, and this is mirror of what -- >> even if netanyahu were brilliant on the israeli/palestinian conflict, this is a question about the rights and security of jews in the united states. it has nothing to do with his policies towards benjamin netanyahu and israel. >> right. im saying that the issue of israel in american politics has more to do with just this question. >> and that theres a learning conserv curve, especially with a new pre...

Maybe around the world who believe and feel that your administration is playing with xenophobia and maybe racist tones? >> okay, go ahead, andre. >> well, again, hes not going to answer the question they want him to answer. hes going to direct the conversation the way he wants it. but at the end of the day, netanyahu said, im paraphrasing, but we have a friend and he feels better than he has in a long time about the leader of the free world thats willing to work with him and the jewish people fe...

Area of the world that really want someone that cares about them, and donald trump has said, were going to make this a priority. i think theyre excited. netanyahu is excited -- >> what did you think about the answer to the question? i want to get this out of andre. what did you think about the answer to the question? >> i say this and yall think im crazy, but donald trump is not a politician, hes a ceo businessman whos going to answer questions differently than most politicians. >> thats not an ...

Love. >>. [ laughter ] >> oh, my gosh. okay, so -- andre, seriously, lets be serious about this. lets just be honest. that was painful. his first response, his instinct is to respond to this very sensitive question by tallying up his electoral college vote and after a minute he responded only in the vaguest of terms about perp pettuating anti-semitism. hes standing next to the prime minister of israel. what do you make of this? >> i think its an exciting time for the people of israel and the peo...

The danger from time to time that comes to america and in recent times more home-grown than foreign, is actually in cities across the united states of america. you know, andre, nice try on that. the fact of the matter is that john mccain and lindsey graham, before tonights monday night massacre, disagreed with mr. trumps executive order. and it is not known at the moment, whether or not that order is actually legal or not. this is the monday night massacre and i appreciate carl bernstein, i was ...

Justice by refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the united states. the new acting attorney general is dana boente, the top federal prosecutor in northern virginia. he will remain in office until the senate confirms senator jeff sessions, expected later this week. >> thank you, evan. i appreciate that. i want to bring in andre bower, michael nutter, former mayor of philadelphia, and presidential historian douglas brinkley, who joins us by phone. national security ...