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Principles and said they cant do it. he said were telling those people were not going to pull the rug out from under them and if we do this too fast, we in fact are going to pull the rug out from under them. eli, thats what analysts like me and everyone who knows anything about health care has been saying from the start. >> this is one of those glares places where the policy and politics have never been in alignment. republicans cant say it on the stage with paul ryan but in a private room becau...

Shaky. i want to read what tom mccarthy, republican from new jersey said when you talk about principles. he reminds everyone of their principles and said they cant do it. he said were telling those people were not going to pull the rug out from under them and if we do this too fast, we in fact are going to pull the rug out from under them. eli, thats what analysts like me and everyone who knows anything about health care has been saying from the start. >> this is one of those glares places where...

It is an important point. what we are seeing is in the governing majority party they dont have an agreement and they are not close. republican of new york is worried about what they are doing with planned parenthood. he said we are walking in to a giant political trap if we go down the trap of sticking planned parenthood in the health insurance business. if you want to do it somewhere else, i have no problem but i think we are creating a political minefield for ourselves house and senate. >> eli...

Develop in the united states. thatcher, reagan, blair, clinton, now brexit and trump. they seem to sync up. kiir simmons, batty, eli, thank you for joining us. appreciate that. and again, we are waiting there at the pentagon, back up on your screen, that is the swearing in ceremony for donald trumps secretary of defense. general james mattis, expected to get under way any minute. also shortly after that ceremony, the president likely to sign another executive order. maybe several executive order...

Be extremely interesting. and this is something where its really hard to game out what exactly the next move will be. >> eli, this was the first glimpse americans got of donald trump as president is in a setting like this. a formal press event with a foreign leader. the only thing comparable at all was during the campaign for that one day with the mexican president. what did you make of the sight and the conduct for donald trump in an event like this? >> i think the optics werent bad for him. we...

Going. he had a very instructive and productive conversation with senate leaders yesterday about the advice and consent role that they have getting their ideas -- the principle that is they expect, and he was sharing with them his -- the qualities and the values that he expects in a judge to serve on the supreme court. im not going to go further than that, but i would just say its a productive and constructive meeting. eli -- >> national park -- that were assigned to about the change. any of tho...

Quite amazing and the multiplicity and sophistication of subjects that it takes on. so it is remarkable. and what you should also know that about an hour or so ago, i wrote a piece for the pointer institute on pointer.org and very quickly, folks tweeting upset with me because i did not use the word lied. i did not use the word falsehoods in describing what trump and spicer did today. so to the extent that the old gray lady, "the new york times," is altering its rhetorical methodology, its also r...

Accountable as well. >> that right there is the new white house press secretary sean spicer. and that right there doesnt happen until and unless the press secretary is sent to the briefing room by the president, which was the case today as they continue to relitigate the crowd size and reporting about yesterdays inauguration. as donald trump had pledged it would be the biggest crowd ever. that was spoken while hundreds of thousands of people as you see on the other side of this screen were on th...

Of the press corps. as it is so self-evident and i suspect eli and kelly would agree that the battle plan is a make those folks in that room, including kelly, including eli sort of an opposition party. and to exploit the fact that our collective approval rating, our own collective approval ratings are very low as we know. so they are going to try to hammer away at every single mistake. but this obsessiveness that weve seen again during the campaign and of late, be it attacking arnold schwarzeneg...

His approval rating right around 40%. maybe lower than that and may be headed further south. what does he do to try to hold himself up? tries to weaken the other people out there as foils, and thats clearly what hes going to continue to try to do with the media. >> to our friends, eli, kelly and jim, thank you. were going to invite you back as this obviously is just getting under way. thanks so very much for joining us on a saturday night. another break for us. when we come back, what happened t...