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In my corner. he tried the strategy for a few days to say maybe i can work with centrist democrats but what he found when he picked up the phone to call them, those democrats are not so centrist. they are going to oppose his agenda because of what was being mentioned earlier. he is working with rand paul to try to figure out a strategy to get some small victories. rand paul has a proposal out right now to allow for co-ops for healthcare where people can buy in groups, and so it would not get rid...

Holdings they have. and its not just jared and ivanka, it is also all the top officials from reince priebus to kellyanne conway, all the people that we have come to learn about through the early months of the trump administration. part of the intent is that government ethics require sort of the sunshine of exposing this and to try to avoid business conflicts, whi have certainly been raised in the era of trump. now, the president himself is looking ahead to the week of judge gorsuch, which in the...

Happen, and then trying to negotiate someplace in the middle. look, republicans in the house and the senate campaigned on repealing and replacing, period. >> right. >> no ifs, ands, or buts about it. so for them to do anything less, at least in this first attempt out of the gate would be going back to the promises they made. so, those that were firm, especially the house freedom caucus members, say this is what they promised their constituents. and despite all the arm-twisting by the white house...

Questions for the panel, and we got a number on the first big defeat for the trump presidency. kevin henderson tweeted: the gop had six years to come up with a decent alternative, what were they doing that whole time? and why do you think the american people will accept failure of not repealing and replace obamacare after eight years of telling us they would? bill, how do you answer those questions, and who do you thinks responsible for this failure? >> theyll have to revisit reforming and repea...

Votes. chris: we asked you for questions for the panel, and we got a number on the first big defeat for the trump presidency. kevin henderson tweeted: the gop had six years to come up with a decent alternative, what were they doing that whole time? and why do you think the american people will accept failure of not repealing and replace obamacare after eight years of telling us they would? bill, how do you answer those questions, and who do you thinks responsible for this failure? >> theyll have...

Trumps young presidency in the span of just five days, mr. trumps credentiality with voters and his clout for congress were dealt big blows. mr. comey is investigating possible links between the trump campaign and the russian government. by friday, house republicans had to pull the bill to repeal and replace obamacare, an embarrassing acknowledge that they didnt have the votes despite full control of the senate and the white house. in a short time in office, the presidents travel ban has been bl...

Chris: we asked you for questions for the panel, and we got a number on the first big defeat for the trump presidency. kevin henderson tweeted: the gop had six years to come up with a decent alternative, what were they doing that whole time? and why do you think the american people will accept failure of not repealing and replace obamacare after eight years of telling us they would? bill, how do you answer those questions, and who do you thinks responsible for this failure? >> theyll have to rev...

Our bill, this is their bill. >> the president trump pointed the finger at democrats, but a great deal of the blame falling on the president and falling on the speaker of the house paul ryan to understand why the presidents own party let him down on his first major legislative test. here is phil mattingly with more. >> reporter: the pressure, the arm twisting, the ultimatum, they have all fallen short. >> i will not sugar coast this, this is a disa pointing day for us. doing big things is hard.p...

There, but youll continue to work it through the process. if you kill it today the odds of coming back and getting something better i think are remote. >> congressman, youre on appropriations, and congressman frailingheusen your chair posted hes a no, his staff is saying hes leaning no. but thats a real signal from a chairman to say at this point in the vote, arm twisting that its okay to vote no? does that indicate a leadership decision to cut and run? >> no, i dont think so. ive havent had a c...

Commentator and chris is a lizza new to our cnn family. welcome again, chris. let me start with you, jack. whats going to happen today? >> i think theyre going to hammer it out. theyll go to the floor, probably wont even have the votes when they decide to set the vote, but i think through arm twisting, steve scalise, the whip, is going to get there. >> steve israel, they get through, now they have a bill and they go to the senate and the concerns they see with this group of doubters within the h...