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thanks for joining us. good evening. if president biden picked a fight with republicans last night, he showed today its a fight he is happy to have. republicans showed they were just as happy to step in. both sides appear to want this. the president to show voters the gop is in the sway of extremism which res natured during the midterm election, republicans wanted to reinforce their credentials with the base and use their control of the house to amplify that effort. last night, presi...

>> she knows from crazy. >> she defended a lot of things. trump said that was crazy. i dont know quite who that speech made happy other than some base conservatives. i dont think it made the trump folks happy. i dont know it got her anything more than -- >> certainly was not a speech reaching out to broaden the base of the republican party. >> right. listen, it was red meat. it was exactly what people want the -- the base wants to hear, critical race theory, the woke left. it was something that ...

Repeal and replace, not necessarily understanding how this already, would. >> yeah, its a good question and a good point. i think the slogan worked. i do think maybe we oversimplified it as a republican party. we told people it was going to be easy to repeal and replace obamacare. obviously, its not that easy. but that doesnt mean it cant or shouldnt be done. i think thats where the disappointment among the grassroots conservatives will lie. whether its easy or hard, they didnt vote for people t...

Oversimplified it as a republican party. we told people it was going to be easy to repeal and replace obamacare. obviously, its not that easy. but that doesnt mean it cant or shouldnt be done. i think thats where the disappointment among the grassroots conservatives will lie. whether its easy or hard, they didnt vote for people to come back and say well, we tried. sorry. they vote ford people to solve problems and make major changes in washington no matter how arduous it is. i think thats the re...

Impulsive than really strategic and that concerns me. >> joining me now is lanhee chen, former adviser. lanhee, thank you for joining me. >> thank you, stephanie. >> you know, as i mentioned, its been a tough week at the white house. do you in the last week see conservatives rethink their support for the president? >> i dont necessarily think amongst base conservatives, you know, people out in real america, i guess would be one way to describe it. in general, they look at the president and they ...

This? if you were to rank it 1-10, 10 being a big deal and tell me why. >> i think its probably a 3 or 4 because i do think china -- think about the candidates rhetoric towards china. they are waiting to see what relationship they can establish. i thought it was quite clever for this to be an incoming call to trump, which doesnt necessarily reflect the national status of taiwan, but it does show hes going to be a different guy. taiwans been a plank in the base republican platform for a long time...

Had a little more rational time to think this through, perhaps we wouldnt have had some of the pushback on it. >> in the senate there are probably about 10 to 15 republican senators who are opposed to immigration reform no matter what. there are another 15 to 20 gop senators who i would call skittish about how the base views the immigration debate. these are the senators that youd expect floridas marco rubio to be able to keep in line or who he hopes to get on board. they are watching the grassr...

Be politically possible and i resisted this area when i ran for office. people who can afford to buy health insurance should take the responsibility to do so. in fact this idea has enjoyed support from members of both parties, including the current republican nominee for president. >> so michael, as they say in hollywood, end scene, is that it? is that the whole argument now that youve got the supreme courts decision in a shell there? ì(lc% to chriss point, the last poll i saw, i believe it was...

Crist who appointed lemieux to serve out the senate term. neither mack nor lemieux have made a real run at senator nelson and republicans are getting nervous. theres talk of always finding another candidate. the latest is former congressman dave welldon. if he does jump in he could try to run to the right of both candidates, portraying himself as the true conservative. you have to wonder if the three months between now and the august primary could do more harm than good to the candidates and the...

Finders keepers. looking for something patrick kane? say hello to my new super bowl. this is the ring that kobe gave his wife at one time "for no reason." what else we got here? what else? good day. im andrea mitchell in washington. is the presidents health care plan on life support? republicans keep trying to pull the plug. joining me for our daily fix, chris cillizza and ruth marcus. chris, what is this about health care, the president trying to be out there today, republicans having their...