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Theres obviously a slice of the republican party you speak to better than donald trump does. and its this slice of the republican party that seems to be wavering on him. is that a fair statement? >> chuck, theres no question that people sent a message to the party, to republicans, knock it off. the chaos, the divisions, i mean kids being separated from their parents at the border. these crazy tariffs. hey, were going to take your health care. were going to kill obamacare, which means youre not g...

Some sound bites where he said he wants to unravel obamacare, he wants to kill obamacare, et cetera. not upholding the law. is this the only time a president has refused to carry out or refused to enforce a law? >> we dont know if its the only time. the distinction here is that the president himself is stating that it is his goal to use this statute in order to undermine it. according to the constitutional scholars that i spoke to, that is unprecedented. if there was any time that there has been...

Sweep of his place in american life. >> over his career, the senator made a name for himself with his approach to bipartisanship and his inclination to take on his own party. >> i spoke out strongly on several other issues where i thought that mr. trump was absolutely wrong. i have not been shy about it. >> john did his best when he is fighting as a maverick. what i mean is he is happy. he is most happy when he gets something done. >> at this very moment, theres a bill on the floor of the united...

Way to start a conversation. a respectful conversation you are trying to win. do you want to say, hey, i understand what you voted foror him, you were frustrated, we lost you, we want to win you back, but impeachment says, you are stupid, and we are going to undo what happened in the last election. back to the republican congress, look, they pulled together on this tax reform, probably having failedn on health care, really forced them to actually go, this is do-or-die. lets give credit where cre...

Conversation. a respectful conversation with people you are trying to woo back. you wanting to say hey, listen, i understand why you voted for him. you were frustrated. we lost you. we want to win you back. but, impeachment just says youre stupid. and were going to undo what happened in the last election. back to the republican congress, look, they pulled together on this tax reform, probably having failed on healthcare. really force them to actually go, whoa, this is do or die. and lets give cr...

Do so and republicans who are uncomfortable more pressure not to make deals with him and that shifted into the democratic basket and another lever they can use. >> someone unexpected. you go back to one of the questions. would the democrats stick together and emulate what they did when obama took the presidency. if you say its monday, we say its tuesday. >> back to what you said about the tax reform, there is a political element to what they are doing in terms of -- they know that the polling fo...

They understand the majority is at risk. the president is not on the ballot and has shown no affinity for being the leader of the republican party and making the choices that its necessary to take one for the team. we are in this remarkable moment going forward. we are watching the developments earlier and we are about to end the first year of the trump presidency. any american history going back a long time tells us the most important year in terms of getting things done is year number one. the...

Say why did you have to go and do that for? >> he made hard things harder as opposed to being a businessman and how we get together and do deals. >> they know who will be blamed for this. mitch mcconnell said they own the shut down brand and they know it will come to him. mcconnell promised no shutdowns while republicans control congress. they got bailed out of the last shut down in 2013 by the terrible roll out of the obamacare program. these things are deadly politically. there is nothing down...

Reform to pass a lot, really no matter what. and it is willing, as we learned over the weekend, to ditch a repeal of the obamacare individual mandate to make it happen. our chief business correspondent, christine romans, is now with us. i was surprised when i heard mulvaney say this. >> yeah, hes a budget director. and, look, we know that the gop wants to kill obamacare. i mean, has tried and failed to get rid of obamacare. and when this repeal of the individual mandate made its way into the sen...

Was first thing to do. no question they were doing it. despite their 2 1/2 week early running start at that goal that they all agreed on, they didnt have that bill ready for inauguration day. it would be two months, march, before the republican-controlled house had a bill to repeal obamacare, ready to vote and last minute yanked off the floor. 46 seat majority in the house and couldnt come up with votes. sat on it another two months. again in may, passed this by margin of only four votes. maybe ...