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Republicans blow this, and it results in people losing coverage, as you say it will, it will make people want to vote democrat in the midterm. >> i dont want anyone to lose coverage. >> lets also not forget the largest number of people that will lose coverage is when obamacare collapses, which is the direction it is going in right now. that leads to what i think is a very important point. if they repeal obamacare and replace it with something that is not much better or a little bit better, but i...

>> it certainly, again, in midterm, youre not going to have that turn out. the trump phenomenon said there was one. >> im a voter, democratic voted for trump. you just threw that back in my face. i voted for trump and wouldnt let me have it. you trashed my vote. i can hear that argument. i can hear the republican ad campaign. >> you can hear the republican add campaign. its not as though its going to reward democrat who does cross party lines and vote to confirm donald trumps nominee. also, dona...

Their constituents at home. >> i think thats part of the calculation. but i also think theres another side to that, which is 2018. your base is super excited for the fight -- >> thats an argument for fighting gorsuch, theyll go the other way. is there a base -- is there a base in west virginia for the left? >> yeah, i mean, its a mid-term election. thats when the left will come out. >> thats going to roar out, understanding. >> well, it har kins back to 2014 when you had a very difficult map for...

The senate rules to pass him with 50 or 51? and 52 if all of the republicans do and then the democrats hold firm? what is going to happen? >> increasingly inevitable that the filibuster is going to be on its way out. i also i think one of the interesting things we are seeing with the democrats who are in trump states they realizing they have to rely on their base going into this midterm. they cannot bottom out. and then go in hoping that trumps people are going to bail them out somehow. thats is...

A coalition to pass at least some things that make sense for the country. the other thing i want to mention is this, ana, i talked to republican members of congress. and you could hear the ice cracking under their feet. they are telling me, we are going -- we are approaching the first 100 days of the presidency. we thought we would be talking about jobs, wages, security. and instead were talking about the prosecution and devin nunes. they believe that they are weakened as a result of this presid...

Seeing for repealing and replacing obama care, that will galvanize the party to make sure that happens. theyre going to work hard too keep the seats they have and add to the seats they have. it will be a successful midterm for republicans. >> what defines success? because if the freedom caucus digging in and the demes are digging in, whos actually working for the american people right now? >> i can assure you that the american freedom caucus are working for the american people. while a lot of th...

Large-scale strategy to rattle the cage some of the members. he can go to his cell phone, his twitter, and have a similar response to people having a pac or something like that. these three members outperformed him in the general election, but trump did very well. in jim jordans district, he won some of the counties against john kasich in ohio, not enough to unseat him, but certainly enough to rattle they are cage in a midterm. i dont know if you want to have that going into a 2020 election, a s...

Get that done. we could be heading into a mature but very few accomplishment other than neil gorsuchs going to the supreme court which is terrific, but is that enough? is that enough to edify that voters who rejected incrementalism to the last election appeared i submit it is not so donald trump has defines of out-of-the-box tactics to get the freedom caucus in line or find a few democrats he can deal with because i dont thickly want to go into a midterm with very little to show for what we prom...

In the back, maybe they have beer. >> greg: coffee is hot. people could throw it on you. >> lisa: you could put baileys in your coffee. >> greg: put baileys and everything. i put baileys and my baileys. showed president trump and the freedom caucus takes starbucks up on the offered? dana says no. the president threatened war against caucus members in the midterm if they dont get on board i joined the army in july of 98. our 18 year old was in an accident.

Though it was almost a year before the election. >> heres the dilemma going forward for democrats. if you do the filibuster here, and the republicans then respond with this nuclear option, get rid of the filibuster, what happens if a year from now, two years from now, instead of a republican president replacing scalia, its a democratic sk vacancy and have the potential for a major shift in this court from a liberal justice to a trump-appointed conservative. would democrats do well to preserve th...