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It will be our plan and try to snatch it away from president? >> i dont think it is about snatching away. i mean a lot of those things, tax reform and infrastructure are policy items that republicans want, whether they have a good relationship with president trump or not. and certainly there will be people in the white house who will continue to work on that. theres a lot of speculation last week about whether or not the top economic advisor to president trump would leave. look, one of the reaso...

Tax reform where he said he wanted the top tax bracket for people making more than $5 million a year to start with a four and there was nobody else who what was pushing anything like that. we did spend some time with steve bannon back on the 100 days mark, it was literally a war room inside there, he had whiteboards upon two of the walls with all of the proposals and policy items that he wanted to get past. there were a few checkmarks on that wall but the majority of what he wanted to get throug...

Involved in terms of working with members of congress than president obama or president bush before him. you have to give him some credit for that. >> we definitely credit the president. he definitely has been rolling up the sleeves and calling on the phone and calling lawmakers to his office trying to get them on board to do something to repeal and maybe replace is off the table at the moment. but i am asking and isaac i will toss it over to you in terms of specifics. can the president lay out ...

Conservatives dont like it. this is we that 50-vote yesterday, the 50-vote pro said -- procedural vote was so critical. a lot of people are thinking the only thing that might be able to pass is the skinny repeal, maybe do it on a 50-50 vote with vice president pence breaking the tie. shep, just since weve been talking here, they just started this roll call vote. im looking around the corner here. this is the vote, the procedural vote on the hyde amendment. its barred for the rules that prohibit ...

Really condescending because it still from a point of view of you are aliens and we dont understand you and its us that has to get down on the mud and understand why youre okay with being uneducated and then figure out how to trick you into believing what we believe so you will vote for us but we dont really share your values. thats what i see, as a voter and a mom when the democratic party speaks to me. >> im not when you disagree with that but i will say a lot of people have that same sense ab...

Behind, but it just all feels really condescending because it still from a point of view of you are aliens and we dont understand you and its us that has to get down on the mud and understand why youre okay with being uneducated and then figure out how to trick you into believing what we believe so you will vote for us but we dont really share your values. thats what i see, as a voter and a mom when the democratic party speaks to me. >> im not when you disagree with that but i will say a lot of ...

Entities are coming at him, he is being attacked relentlessly. hes using that one mechanism to fight back. on his policy side, he is actually doing work. hes got a p.r. strategy through his twitter, policy items that are being effectuated every single day. the one thing i want to come down harder on, and this was my point with progress, the g.o.p. has both houses, start governing and stop criticizing. im going to go back to high school, the legislature, what do they do? they make the laws. the e...

United states. a credibility that is important not just at home, but with north korea, for example right now. and he didnt care. what he wanted to do was to keep playing the small bore game with people who were on msnbc, and he forgot about the larger purposes of his administration. >> jason, you talked earlier about its time to move on. you wish the president hadnt responded in this way. but its harder, because on the one hand, the white house keeps staying how great the presidents tweets are, ...

States. important not just at home but with north korea for example, like right now. and he didnt care. what he wanted to do was keep playing the small board game with people on msnbc and forgot about the larger purposes of the administration. >> but its harder because on the it one hand the white house keeps saying how great the presidents tweets are, that its a way to directly connect with people, to bypass the media, which they dont like. and then when we actually do report on what the presid...

Members to go over to the white house for individual meetings, but as a congressional black caucus, there was just no interest and the will wasnt there to go over to the white house to meet with president trump. >> and you mention the policy document you left with the white house. give us a sense of, a quick summary of some of the most important policy items that were in that agenda item, that agenda document. >> we talked about hbcus, talked about health care, talked about cdbg, how to restore ...