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Anything. he doesnt do lets get together, lets do bipartisan. i like joe, you know. hes a great centrist, but hes not really a centrist. later in the interview, referring to democrats, he said they should definitely come to me on health care because we can do bipartisan infrastructure and we can do bipartisan daca. lets get back to the panel. very interesting that first of all i heard that he was telling people privately he was really going to try to pivot more to the center in 2018. the fact th...

Will be in 2018, president trump didnt make that prospect any easier, he said he would have hammered out a bipartisan tax bill if democrats asked, but he also attacked a key democratic senator hell need in 2018 to get anything done. west virginia senator joe manchin. we hear bs from the democrats, joes a nice guy but he talks and doesnt do anything. lets get together, lets do bipartisan. i say good, lets go. then you dont hear from him gec again. were not ic making that up. he should come to him...

Though, michael, that could be too little too late. the president says hes going to visit next tuesday and wednesday. hes also going to the virgin islands. we know $7 billion was approved for hurricane harvey, so i suspect congress will be back at it. do you think enough is being done by congress and the president collectively? >> i think congress is acting quickly, theyve gotten resources there that the folks need. i know the armed services are doing extraordinary work bringing relief to these ...

Problem solvers caucus. >> kimberly: it does not bother me at all. it does not make me feel insecure. i say, okay, this is somebody who is used to doing business. want to sit down and get a deal done, you say, okay, lets get together and see what we can find some common points of interest and agreement and go through exactly what our plan is and see what we concur. and if there are things, excusea me, we disagree about, we can go over that and tried to negotiate it.t.t. i think that this is a sm...

It will be sensible. theyree unleashing our economy. we have a gdp two weeks ago was announced for the quarter 2.6%. i said wed try to hit 3%. maybe ill have to increase any offer. so many people, the economic count -- council said well take a pass and people are now calling me.ow people that were like, well take a pass. don, lets get together for lunch. can we do it privately instead of through a council. they dont get it. theyre calling and saying how about getting together

Rallies against his travel ban. should he speak out against or speak about what were seeing in charlottesville? >> i think it would be proper for him to say lets get together, lets talk about this. and lets come up with a peaceful solution. lets dont bring out the ugly in what is a very, very important debate. and i think the president can do that and i think national figures have always kind of weighed in to regional controversies or national controversies, our local controversies. >> tara, you...

>> democrats say they werent invited to the table. by the way, you didnt actually need the democrats. you could have done it just with republicans in the senate but that didnt work either. >> of course youre not going to get 50 out of 52, not with collins and murkowski and john mccain. >> you cant blame democrats for that. >> sure we can. theyre the ones that created obamacare. they wouldnt help us fix it. now you have joe manchin saying lets get together. >> hold on a second, congressman. they ...

Crossed. republicans shocked. and this, really, changes the debate in a way that, you know, were still sorting through, even this morning. republicans are trying to regroup up here on capitol hill. we dont know what mcconnells next move is going to be. senator schumer saying, look, lets get together and work on something bipartisan. the future of that very uncertain. >> and as you be been pointing out, it was extraordinary because they were voting for something with the promise from paul ryan it...

Together and develop. lets get together, but the theme is to resist. it is obstruction. and to the problem is that they become obstructionist. and the voters like it from the standpoint of running for office, but i think it is a terrible theme in terms of getting elected and more importantly, it is a terrible theme for the people of this country, resist, obstruction. that is not what they want. >> heather: president trump firing back at democrats opposed to the g.o.p. senate health care bill. cr...

Strikes and so forth. in a sense, what i see as the decision by president trump doing, repairing one of the holes in the obama strategy. >> there are currently roughly 8400 u.s. troops in afghanistan right now. no one at this point is talking about a surge of tens of thousands of troops like we saw the beginning of the obama administration. this is an adjustment to the existing strategy. >> jon: jennifer griffin, thank you. >> schumer criticizing the bill a couple of weeks ago, and he had no ide...