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Care system. we had the best health care system in the world before obamacare. but obamacare has become a cancer on our system, hurt our insurance market and raised the prices of health care and health insurance. so we do need to act. we need to govern. but we dont need to take a bill here that actually creates another federal entitlement and could make the system worse long term. >> right now all signs point to, and well wait to hear what house speaker paul ryan says, but i doubt his view on th...

Midterm. sunlen serfaty in washington with no word from the white house. >> expect basically to see the white house and president trump a lot more engaged in this because, quite frankly, they understand they now have a lot more arm twisting to do. my colleague jeff zeleny reports a senior administration official says they were indeed surprised by all the blowback coming from capitol hill, a lot of fierce opposition to the bill. so they are launching this full-court press in essence to motivate t...

Threw in schwarzenegger, hes note voluntarily leaving the apprentice, but fired by pathetic ratings, not by me. sad end to a great show. the only thing missing was #sad. >> right. >> you brought it up, its -- you do, shake your head at it. >> you do. the president doesnt have message discipline. thats what was said. we talked about the democrats before. when you talk about wanting to win again in the midterm, they need to do something thats going to appeal to those people who voted for donald tr...

They did in this last presidential election. and then if you control the house of congress it is a whole different ball game. >> in your view, does that work even if it cuts against the kind of the cliche of well, you cant just be against something? >> well, look, the dynamics of a presidential election is very different from midterms. midterms are simply referendums on the existing president. and what matters in those referendums is for the opposition party to place skepticism in the minds of v...

For the iraq war. as a result, george w. bush became the first president to actually pick up seats in his first term during a midterm. that is a precedent that democrats do not want to repeat. >> and so, michael, final thought, does that message get through to sort of the democratic establishment, you know some of those folks. they always seem more dubious about the base than sometimes republicans do. >> they have historically. i think thats changed a little bit this time around. just look at ch...

>> i still think they screwed up the scheduling of this. i still i have infrastructure could have been a thing. if you go back and look at chuck schumers statements after the election chuck schumer is clearly open to being with trump on this. >> on infrastructure? on immigration? >> right. >> i think they could if they go first and could repeat the same mistake bill clinton did. >> i always say same mistake barack obama made, health care. >> if bill clinton had have led with welfare reform. he s...

>> it didnt help the midterm. >> i think its a responsibility to question what you are being taught. his >> tom: are the students response will for their own faculty question mike >> education, not indoctrination. the so-called liberal university system has produced a lot of conservatives. there are students who push back. especially on professors that make excellent points, like donald trumps election being a terrorist act. >> tom: that was dumb, but the first thing you said was very good. here...

Will we see a realignment and conservatives give up on the movement ideology to get behind what donald trump is creating or will they pull him back toward them. i dont know if we know the answer. >> martha: you can make an argument if not for donald trump they would not have the senate. they have had to snap to where he is to be in the position they are in light now. kristin, quick thought on that? >> there are some folks that are able to put together victories because of the energy that donald ...

Being real, but, you know, there was a kind of focused effort that the tea party had that really ended up coalessing around a single issue, right? obama care. this seems much more -- at least in the early days, much more diffuse. a lot of different issues and a lot of different things and anxiety, but, you know, does that really end up in 201 in the elections becoming a powerful force that is focused in places that can really matter, or does it end up being in dave brats district maybe a solid f...

That to majorities in the house. so, democrats if they can keep that up, if they can keep that focus it can equal electoral gains i think in the midterm. >> there are some irony there, the same issue thats fired up both sides years apart. thank you so much for joining us, zach wolf. well talk to you soon. speaking about what democrats do in the future, you should tune in tonight. eight candidates want to lead the democratic national committee. we see the debate moderated by dana bash and chris...