where did this go? my disagreement is not with principles. you have libertarians who are principled libertarians who won t vote for anything that expands government. most were conservatives looking for an excuse to vote no and that is what they offered a. i am not convinced, they did a smart thing, the freedom caucus did, picking the three chairman of the tuesday group, picked up one of them, negotiated with him, not clear he had any authority to negotiate on behalf of the moderates. and it is more about blame shifting, they were under pressure for having the affordable care act. my hope is they can arrive at something that allows the process to go forward and the house bill, the conference committee. they have to get it done
you, i talk to people who voted for donald trump. many of them look at something like yesterday where you had this horrifying incident, this attack, this chemical attack in syria, and they watch the response from the president of the united states with the world watching and more time to spend barack obama s policy than bashar al assad. they say, come on, man, it s time to get serious. i voted for you but get serious about the job. that was an appalling statement and appalling performance by the administration on this. syria, it s the problem from hell. i don t think anyone should pretend obama administration covered itself in glory with syria but come on. there s got to be something more than this. we ve seen absolutely nothing except an attempt at blame shifting which doesn t help anybody. it certainly doesn t help people
democrats on board for this legislation. they knew that there was really no chance they were going to convince democrats in the house to support any kind of repeal and replace for obamacare. but i think you re beginning to see this blame shifting. it is telling to see the president out there blaming democrats rather than offering sharp words to paul ryan. a number of people have said this is sure to strain his relationship with the house speaker. but that s not what we heard from the president today. we heard him take pains to layer praise upon the house speaker and try to place this blame squarely on the democrats. it will be interesting to see how this plays out in some of these future negotiations, how comfortable the president is trusting paul ryan when we get to things like tax reform. thanks very much. let s go now to the capitol where fill mattingly on how things came unravelled. no shortage of fingers being pointed. based on your discussions with folks, walk us through the re
the veterans administration. he was pushed. is the administration taking responsibility for the tragedies at the v.a. or is it another example of blame-shifting? it seemed odd because the presidents is not one to give into sort of political pressure to fire people. we saw that with kathleen sebelius back in the fall. he said, no, i need to you stick around. i m not going to it resignation. we need to you stick around. he had to answer that question why is this different? why did you not push kathleen sebelius out so quickly but allowing eric shinseki to walk away. this is something the president campaigned on the first time and second time. he told the troops that he was going to take care of them and then what happened? it s been, what, six years and this problem has been festering the entire time. charles krauthammer has he this to say. how can a president say on the one hand that the problem with the v.a. the problems, the denial of services, the waits and all this had not rea
this year, buckle up. i would recommend it. i ll do it right now. zain asher, many thanks to you. also, this morning, atlanta moves once again. the deep south is now starting to thaw. with that melting ice, comes an apology. actually, more than one apology. georgia s governor now taking full blame for the state s botch response saying the buck stops with him. his apology now making front page headlines. this is the cover of today s atlanta journal constitution. george howell is standing on a highway outside of atlanta to tell us more. good morning, george. reporter: carol, good morning. a few days ago, it is wa a gawaf finger pointing and blame-shifting, now, governor deal is taking full responsibility and saying next time, he will act sooner. this morning, the icy roads that froze atlanta to a standstill