bipartisan effort to try to salvage existing affordable care act, michael? it should be. and it should have been from the start. you know, when you look at what s going on either in the trump white house or with the republican party it s reminiscent of the great high school classic the lord of the flies. and they are spending so much time fighting amongst themselves and stabbing each other many the throat that they can t get anything done. so my hope is and if they really took to heart what john mccain said and did, that an era of bipartisan should come over the house and the senate. the american people do want us to get things done. and president obama would be the first to say, because we had to compromise, that there are some elements of the affordable care act, obamacare, that can and should be fixed. what has happened here has become so politically toxic that
this is not a sign of a rift in the west wing. it s rather a recess. the president has a right to hit a reset button. i think it s a good time to hit the reset button. i think he was right to hit the resut button. and i think it was something that i think the white house needs. i think it s healthy. will it be a reset for trump s agenda? this week was punctuated by senate republicans failure to repeal and replace obamacare and today the president is tweeting major krcriticisms against gop lawmakers, a seeping misunderstanding about how the vote failed. more on that in a moment. but first let s talk more about this major staffing change within the executive branch. reince priebus is the sixth member of the trump administration to resign or be fired since february. i m joined by cnn white house reporter caitlyn collins, live on the north lawn. we know priebus has also been accused of being a source of the
so overly populated that it would tip over and capsize. we don t anticipate that. jesse: that s someone saying donald trump is mentally incapacitated saying a few marines on the island of guam would cause the island to capsize. the impeachment thing didn t work, the russia thing didn t work. they are showboating. they know the bill isn t going anywhere. it s them saying look at us standing up to the president. we have very little time to work on imploding obamacare. it s collapsing. how have they found time to write this bill and bring it around when there are so many important things that need to be done.
so overly populated that it would tip over and capsize. we don t anticipate that. jesse: that s someone saying donald trump is mentally incapacitated saying a few marines on the island of guam would cause the island to capsize. the impeachment thing didn t work, the russia thing didn t work. they are showboating. they know the bill isn t going anywhere. it s them saying look at us standing up to the president. we have very little time to work on imploding obamacare. it s collapsing. how have they found time to write this bill and bring it around when there are so many important things that need to be done.
i like the president s idea. it s all based on obamacare. if the thing is repealed and you give 12 months notice, what happens in this country. that s 20 million people who need insurance. they say 20 million people won t have insurance. that s baloney. insurance companies will step in, they will offer basic care, catastrophic care, whatever you want. jesse: the original idea behind obama care they promised to reduce costs and the costs went up. it s boeing us to say people are going to lose insurance. if they push people into medicaid. medicaid is a welfare program and it s exploding like all the