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Somebody to try to explain to him why not responding to flake is a good idea. yesterday senators spent their time distancing themselves from flake, not the president. had the president attacked flake, what do we think republican senators would have done? probably defended flake. >> i think its interesting watching the news. you think about jeff flakes book and the point hes making. well see what the disposition republican senators is and members of congress is the presidents number is at 33, 32,...

Sims. he ice skates on their ponies, former bodyguard, tyrus. i want to go to you first, rob. my theory is that his job was temporary. hes there to get you in and then he has to go on his way. its not a reward system. >> it should have been temporary and that guy is a great fun rents razor and hes raised a lot of money and a lot of people in office. i think the midterm will be tough. you always want someone who is different from you when you are on the team. you have an add president was vain. y...

Sims. he ice skates on their ponies, former bodyguard, tyrus. i want to go to you first, rob. my theory is that his job was temporary. hes there to get you in and then he has to go on his way. its not a reward system. >> it should have been temporary and that guy is a great fun rents razor and hes raised a lot of money and a lot of people in office. i think the midterm will be tough. you always want someone who is different from you when you are on the team. you have an add president was vain. y...

I think theres so many things out there right now for the midterms, this might be one of the tag lines of what you want. the only thing i will give them they get credit for is any time a president looks like hes undoing something a democratic president did, the base will take it for what it is. im not sure how it plays out in the midterms. theres so much in the midterm to talk about. were going to have to unpack it as we get closer. >> but trey, for the religious right and for people who do elec...

What i think is interesting here is a lot of people in the base of the republican party turning against their own members if they feel they have not come through with their repeal obamacare. >> this is why republicans face such a squeeze. there are a lot of republican base voters that benefit from obamacare and dont want to see it gone and are showing up and getting very angry. but on the other hand, conservatives who have been promised this will be repealed for years and years and years. i thin...

Care. >> well this is why republicans face such a squeeze. there are a lot of republican based voters that benefit from obamacare dont want to see it gone. are showing up at the townhalls and getting very angry. on the other hand you have conservatives who have been promised this is going to be repealed for years, years, years, i think if republicans are afraid, in a sense for this to end with any kind of finality and admit failure. so all the political incentives are aligned to dragging this ou...

Theyre saying the bigger the better. corporate monopolies in the end hurt jobs. if they decide to go after tech, this could be a place that white house could agree we know steve bannon and others in the national swing of the white house would love to go up against the google, facebook duopoly, and a big tell will be the at&t time warner merger. if it goes through, awesome issue for democrats. if its blocked, the parties are on the same side. >> thats a long way from the slogan, though. joe? >> m...

Again, that is something that would be celebrated here and would be seen as a victory for president putin and those types of victories are typically promoted in the russian state media. >> ivan watson for us in moscow. thank you. all right. turning now to health care, mitch mcconnell refusing to concede defeat on the effort to get rid of obama care owicare d that the repeal and replace eventually also failed. he announced that they will hold a procedural vote early next week, a move that will ...

congressman jack kings tonton fr adviser to the alison, how big of a failure? >> significant failure. some call it one of the biggest whiffs weve seen in years because president trump and republicans campaigned for the last seven years on repealing and replacing obamacare and werent able to get it even to the starting line. as vice president pence said, inaction is not an option. they need to do something. in my view, behind closed doors to get what we had to the table was not the radio it wa...

Repeal and replace, not necessarily understanding how this already, would. >> yeah, its a good question and a good point. i think the slogan worked. i do think maybe we oversimplified it as a republican party. we told people it was going to be easy to repeal and replace obamacare. obviously, its not that easy. but that doesnt mean it cant or shouldnt be done. i think thats where the disappointment among the grassroots conservatives will lie. whether its easy or hard, they didnt vote for people t...