people in the end. the real problem are the wild cards, the john mccains, who have proven impervious. we have a graphic we can put up. you mentioned mccain. johnson, daines, collins, corker. who do you see as a big deal? johnson is worried about small businesses taxed at an individual rate, sounds like they re dealing with that. susan collins and mccain are big wild cards because of people being hurt by higher premiums. mccain doesn t like the process. he is someone you cannot predict at this point. if he doesn t like the process and they re jamming it through he ll just vote no. we saw that on health care. if you sincerely care about the deficit and the data, this bill ain t for you. it s a total contradiction to those principles. that s why senator corker and james lankford are given a
standing up to the president. i mean, mccain was pretty sharp in a critique of a lot of what donald trump stands for. and, you know, political arguments. does this go beyond a political argument, mary catherine? you re right that mccain doesn t care and, frankly, once someone calls you an unsatisfactory p.o.w., you can say whatever you want after that. but look, i do think there s a part of his speech where he talked about it being unpatriotic to ascribe to this half-baked nationalism, as he called it. i m probably closer to mccain than to trump. but there s a whole part of this country including democrats who crossed over to vote for trump who are on board with that because of the failures of the interventionism of the past which mccain is in support of. i think there is a political dynamic there he should be aware of. he s in arizona and running again anyway. but this is a dynamic that he is sort of ignoring. and i think using the word
people have to be careful because at some point i fight back. i m being very nice. i m being very, very nice. but at some point i fight back and it won t be pretty. senator mccain says he s faced far greater challenges than that. really, the president fights back sometimes. that s really news worthy. d it s not even fighting back, it s attacking people. i do think that this is not something that s going to be intimidating. he s at a point where i don t think he is going to have any problem standing up to the president. mccain was sharp in the critique. does this go beyond a political argument, mary catherine? you re right that mccain doesn t care and, frankly, once
to say i tried. any. the definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. we have seen this twice already. nothing has really changed. the same players are making the same moves. and you re not going to see collins or murkowski turn around on this. i am the optimist. i think you can get murkowski and rand paul becomes a key. james, you followed this relationship. how much of this would a psychiatrist is john mccain unable to see his friend lindsey graham achieve the great legislative achievement in 20 years that eluded john mccain. that s a good question. obviously lindsey and john are so close. two of the three amigos. mccain doesn t like donald
who s very close with lindsey/graham. they re best friends in the senate. they talk all the time. mccain doesn t seem to be wanting to get out there criticizing graham. at the same time, he hasn t kicked open the door to potentially voting for this. instead, repeating when he s asked about it that he wants regular order. now, this bill is officially going through a regular order, but it s very unusual that you would have something like this pop up that controls a sixth of the economy. i think that s where mccain is coming from on this. earliest we might see a vote on this. it s likely we ll get a hearing on monday. they need to pass it by september 30th. i think you would see it go to the floor on tuesday, vote on wednesday. democrats might try to delay it but they don t have that many tools available to them. kasie hunt for us on the hill. enjoy the weekend. thank you. let s bring in the washington post columnist, also the author of amy book called one nation after trump, e.