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Taken this biggest business in the world and kind of run it close to being in the ditch. here, i think the difference is it was not a mandate election. it was tied in the senate. it was very close on the presidential side. the house has got a three-vote margin. so, theyve teed up legislation, in my opinion, thats piling on to a broken system. and ill give them credit. i call them political entrepreneurs. and they kind of go for broke. this is their business. and a growth business of the federal ...

Grahams presumption that people dont care about disagreeing politicians, but they care about progress. this was a mandate election, which was help us in the middle class and the desperation is real and trump says he recognizes it and will help us. the tax plan looms large, and thats where it comes home to roost for the president of the united states. how does he get that done? they can say the first draft was filled with things that dont deliver on his promise by definition? >> with all due resp...

Face and postpone the vote for a week. i dont think they have the votes right now. look, medicare prescription, they kept the vote open for two or three hours. ive been on the floor during budget votes. they kp it open to try to twist as many arms as they can and put the spotlight on you to sure they get there. i think its the wrong tactic. this was not a mandate election, it was a change election. they need to be careful with their message. theyve got the wrong product right now to put on the f...

Republicans are never going to be able to sell this to the american people if they cant sell it to republicans first. this is a bill republicans across the country dont recognize. if republicans were true to their promises in the past six years, their free market principles, they would create a multistate exchange to expand options for consumers. they would cancel the individual mandate and subsidies. they would cancel the requirement to cover preexisting conditions and block grant medicaid. tha...

Former member of congress doesnt miss, right? getting shouted at at a town hall. spicer could not be more wrong, nor could the white house or republicans who are trying to dismiss this. this reflects a bigger point. this was not a mandate election for donald trump. he did lose the popular vote and half of america wants to keep the aca. they probably want to fix it. you know, the bigger issue going on here as well is if youre spicer or republicans taking on the voters instead of taking on the iss...

These things that it is not a representation of a members district or an incident. it is a loud group -- small group of people disrupting something in many cases for media attention. no offense. its just -- i think thats -- that necessarily just because theyre loud doesnt necessarily mean there are many. >> im joined by carin jean-pierre and david jolly, former republican congressman from florida. david, let me start with you. this whole idea that, well, theyre organized or so-called anger. this...

Im for border enforcement, border control, not for amnesty. i will work with whoever our nominee is to make sure that that person wins and then to make sure we run on a platform so that we have a mandate election so that in 2017 we do what we need to do to get this country back on track to solve this countrys big problems that are getting worse by the day. >> you are the leader of the republican party, you and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell right now i know when there is a nominee that p...

Break going through how do we come up with an agenda that is bottom up, that is organic, thats listening to americans and members of congress to assemble an agenda to put on paper and give that to the unk, show that to the country, run on that in 2016 so that people can really choose an agenda. if we win, then we have a mandate election. we have a retreat in ten days where were going to go start working on this and rolling this out as the year goes on. >> i think what youre saying here is really...

This race was a 51/49 race no matter what i think the window is wider. now youre having a large debate and were going to get a mandate election. >> the reality is that, that ryan has not won this argument within the proub electorate. when you look at the polling on medicare, its not just democrats and independents who oppose the kind of change that ryan is advocating. and he is a very effective advocate for what hes trying to do. but theres still a majority of republicans who do not like the ide...

>> let me take a step back and get your impression. one of the things that weve already seen just on this program so far is that i dont think, who are real allies of paul ryan who are not in a position to defend -- >> i didnt hear what rich wants this morning so far which is republicans going out there and defending the ryan plan on medicare in a way and going on offense. >> lets be clear its what rich wants that matters. >> did not sound like a guy who wants to have that conversation. and i thi...