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The president touts his economic numbers, that is the main thing hes been promoting lately. >> to his credit, we have seen him get one million jobs added since the beginning of his presidency. economists can argue whether his policies or he himself has really been the impetus of those. >> more americans are working. "newsweek" says hes being lazy. the president tweeting im not on vacation on his first full day. seems like he has a messaging problem trying to say hes not on vacation. he says hes ...

>> does it seem like he has a man crush there? kind of seems like he loves the president. joining me now white house correspondent for washington examiner sarah westwood and alex hamlin, so, ellis, ill start with you. scaramucci doesnt have the experience spicer had, but he did look comfortable up there at the podium. he also is a showman just like the president, of course. he speaks with those big hand gestures. he even blew the president and the press corps a kiss at the end of the briefing. >...

Unfolding. with me are glen thrush, white house correspondent for "the new york times" who broke the news that sean spicer was resigning. and stephanie rule is with me as well. glen, let me just -- i just want to underscore a point that you made thats really, really important. anthony scaramucci implied and others have implied that this is to solve a messaging problem that president trump thinks is at the root of the tension that exists between the media and the administration. and you dont know...

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Discussion about what the medicaid program does serve, because anybody thats able-bodied between 18 and 34 can get on the program. this is supposed to serve the needy, the disabled and the destitute. weaver gotten away from that and thats the problem. >> what about susan collins and michelle murkowski holding the position of holding back on care for women. >> there are people who said they are want happy with this, lee and rand paul want to blow this up and start from scratch. theyve been pretty...

>> i want him to apps that question. >> why did we start with health care and not tax reform? because this was a mistake by the white house to let paul ryan drive the legislative agenda. i would have much rather gone tax reform to start with. >> and infrastructure. >> you could also not live and die on the hill of getting tax breaks to richer americans. thats whats in the tax bill. thats in some was -- >> they are the ones that carry the burden of the tax bill. give them a little relief. >> give...

A san francisco liberal, thats a problem. the party itself has a lot of values -- out of the mainstream. support for unlimited immigration without thinking through the effects of that, abortion all the way up to nine months of pregnancy, changing laws about religion minorities and christians. these are things that are identified with the democratic party and not just nancy pelosi. its a bigger messaging problem they have to deal with if they want to capture middle-of-the-road american voters. >>...

Know, a while back tried unsuccessfully to unseat nancy pelosi. he said this this morning. take a listen. >> well, we dont have a strong economic message. when i was growing up and youd ask my grandfather or grandmother, why are we democrats? it was the democrats are for working class people, and weve lost that message. >> what say you to that, theres also a messaging problem as well. >> i grew up in a similar household. i think our message is under every roof in america are the dreams every fam...

A san francisco liberal, thats a problem. the party itself has a lot of values -- out of the mainstream. support for unlimited immigration without thinking through the effects of that, abortion all the way up to nine months of pregnancy, changing laws about religion minorities and christians. these are things that are identified with the democratic party and not just nancy pelosi. its a bigger messaging problem they have to deal with if they want to capture middle-of-the-road american voters. >>...

Women, from people over 50. this will be a tight race but if democrats dont win this race, they have to re-evaluate what their message is going into 18. >> if democrats do win, if i am a sitting republican congressman, senator, in a district similar to this, in a suburban area that could be democratic, what do i do? retire? >> youre terrified. there wouldnt be a lot of republicans but this could be the sign of a wave. the other thing both parties are doing right now is message testing. i was ele...