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Repealing and replacing obamacare. i have to tell you, maybe were going to do it now, its a little tougher without mccains vote, ill be honest. weve got time, its like a boxer, you get knocked down, get up, get knocked down, get up, then the bad ones stay on the stool, we quit, we quit, the great ones get up and they end up winning. thats what were going to do. we might have to go back again and again. i mean like we may make it this time. but the most well be is one or two votes short. you cant...

Looks so highly cynical and ignores the customers which in politics as i always are also the bosses. >> exactly right, brian. and i say this hearts break. this is a terrible night for republicans. it actually is your colleague chris hayes i believe tweeted out that they have been fighting obamacare for seven years krafrted a plan at lunch publish it at 10:00 p.m. vote on it at 12:00 a.m. i will also say though i am a fan of john mccain i supported him in 2000 when bush 34r was running. supported...

Im ali velshi. >> and im stephanie ruhle. people always say its talk russia, russia, russia with the media. how about immigration. the immigration debate hitting americas farms. we all know migrant workers have been the life blood of u.s. agriculture but most come from mexico, and now they are not coming. when farmers need them most, harvest season. >> meanwhile it was made in america week for the white house but for the rest of washington it was another week of battling over russia, white house...

An interest in other things that hes doing -- supreme court appointments and trade and immigration and some of the issues that fire up that base -- fighting obamacare. so, the real question is -- i think there are plenty of republicans on the hill who are dismayed, who would like to walk away from the president, but theyre not going to walk away from a president who has 85% approval numbers among republican voters, and until those numbers change, or if they start walking up to those midterm elec...

And theres much more of an interest in other things that hes doing supreme court aappointments and trade and immigration and some of the issues that fire up that base, fighting obamacare. so the real question is, i think there are plenty republicans on the hill who are dismayed and would like to walk away from the president, but theyre not going to walk away from a president who has 85% approval numbers among republican voters. if those numbers change or if they start walking up to the midterm e...

Around to it but you can see the point. this means the system is working because something bad is not being able to come out of that building behind you. >> that is absolutely right. and david, actually. are in accord on this surprisingly. but this is where we need partisanship aside. the politics is so broken, right. and i know brian, you dont want to get into this -- the weeds on this. but gerry man deering. it is hurting the democracy where you you have to play kate a base of voters and you h...

Replace obamacare? and we explained to them, yes but we with he do it we want to do this one right. were actually going to read the bill before we pass it into law. thats one of the reasons for the delay right now. second part of this is this this if were toing it right we want to respect all the different segments of society impacted by it. 8% of gdp means a lot of people are compacted. people on medicaid, people not on medicaid but have a very low income. individuals who have a higher income b...

Dakota, the single mom worried her breast cancer going to come back? pier south dakota, the senior citizen thinking about the diabetes and cost in rapid city and so on. >> a couple of things. because a number of of those items have come up in the -- in the coffees we do around the state. some of them as many as three hundred people in them. the concerns were number one what are we trying to do with the health care plan? are we going to repeople and replace obamacare? and we explained to them, ye...

Bothering some of the republicans is that the president just doesnt have command over the policy details. and thats in that -- the excerpt you read from "the new york times" peace but we hear it too. he wants a win. he wants something to sign. he wants to be able to tell the american people he changed obamacare. but he is not engrossed in the details. he has not studied up on health care as is an issue when he has the private conversations with senators. they tend to focused on the sort of big p...

But ner in a bind because of the promises on this and the fact that the gop base may punish them if they dont deliver. >> and phil to your point earlier, the presidents comment after all the hull a boo lieu on the house version in the house version in the end he found it to be mean opinion the newtering remark at the end of the press availability. if we cant get a deal well live with that. that must be driving some of the republicans crazy. >> it is certainly. and the other thing that is botheri...