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Party and is also youre going to find some sort of receptive audience among folks that have been voting republican in alabama? >> well, you talk about the issues they care about. doug jones is all about #kitchentable. he was talking about good jobs. he was talking about theú,jì(lc% that his dad was a steel , he understands blue collar work. hes talking about the fact that if obamacare gets repealed, im sure he doesnt call it obamacare, but if it gets repealed, that the access to that rural cli...

They dont pass this. the other thing is all of these individual republicans in washington trying to prove that its not their fault personally that this didnt happen. so mitch mcconnell has to show he tried as hard as he could. so he has to -- i think they may vote on this thing, even though they know its going to fail, because mitch doesnt want to be blamed, he wants the blame to lie with whoever votes no. theres a certain kabuki aspect of it there. im not sure -- now that theyre not getting thi...

This is politically a horrible idea. its a good way to kill tax reform by tying to it obamacare repeal. >> yes. >> but i think once we get to october 1st, people will forget there was a deadline and basically say, you promised, you have to try again, lets try doing it in next years budget. i think the story may be with us another year with these periodic, episodic efforts to repeal. you get closer to the election, the politics of actually doing it just get worse and worse. >> michelle, speaking ...

The senate ahouse and and presidency, it will be a problem to get the base to support them when the base matters so much. >> and dealing with that, here, don, just the political argument that democrats could take on is one of the wins, if you will, in the middle, that democrats can take here as to work first of all with the republicans and part of that is just on the private side, right, the private insurance side which clearly has some opportunities to be improved. >> that democrats have been a...

Communication strategy and outside legal team but at the end of the day you still have a president trump who will regularly and without thinking twice about it under cut his own senior staff and white house messaging, whether on twitter or in interviews with "the new york times" or washington post or on tv. so this is a white house that at the senior ranks does understand that the president could call in as many reinforcements as we wanted but at the end of the day, trump is going to be trump. >...

Terry mcauliffe and a long time confidant of the clinton family. he said the president replied that he would love to hear ideas from him. another state worth watching is texas as the new yorker magazine reported this month. texas has the highest rate of uninsured people in the country and it is home to one fifth of americas uninsured children. texas democratic congressman mark feesy joining us now. thank you for coming into house here today at 30 rock. tell us about your district. you heard some...

Representative of the new american city is largely growing because of immigration. so the topic itself for texas is very, very crucial. >> oh, yeah. its very crucial. we have to be able to answer that question without the political rhetoric. and quite frankly, the republicans have been kicking it down the road for a long time now. but again when you talk to the major business industries in the state, they will tell you that they dont have enough workers as it is. i was just visiting a food manuf...

On obamacare is everyone is still kind of in the nancy pelosi mode, doesnt know what is in it. there are things that people like about it and things people dont like. and they do see that the insurance market is collapsing and companies pulling out of state after state and you mentioned governor sandoval in nevada. news flash, politicians like government subsidy, that is not any major development. it is going to happen. it is him and john kasich and they are on an island when dit comes down to t...

The sirens of what the trump administration is doing in terms of preventing sign-ups. but as we know, richard, the most important part or one of the most important parts of the affordable care act was the expansion of medicaid. and so many democratic governors and even republican governors have accepted the expansion and having encouraged constituents to sign up. so when you have the governor of nevada encouraging his home state senator so not support repeal because they accepted medicaid expans...

Trump care. if its something thats successful, if they help get some sort of health care legislation passed even if it is a fix, is that something the democrats are willing to be a part of? >> i think you put your finger on it. just like labeling it obamacare, made it politically toxic for republicans, imagine what democrat facing any kind of re-election is going to want to put his or her name on something called trumpcare. i was talking with chris murphy in the green room, he made the point, he...