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>> not even a long term problem. they made a promise. this is what the base thinks they want. they want a repeal, so they want to repeal it. they are not trying to solve the policy problem which is there are problems with obamacare and it needs to be fixed. i think it may solve the short term problem, but in the long term, more problems. >> from the white house perspective, we know the white houses approach toward the senate effort was different than it was in the house. he was much more involve...

Here is tomi tonight. >> my final word is lets make the g.o.p. work again. lets start with the border wall. for every hour our republican representative sit around and talk about this, thousands more illegal immigrants pour into our country. sean, i am so sick about hearing about the 11 million illegal immigrants living here. priority one has to be to secure the border. we know physical barriers work and thats why democrats and even some republicans dont like them. its not a money problem or a p...

More than two people on the fence? >> yeah. think nobody wants to be the third senate store that kills it. youre the one that did it and you have to look at a republican primary. its always darkest before it kbo goes completely black. what republicans are trying to do is make sure they dont get to that point. a lot of people dont appreciate about the bind republicans are in is when i talk to republican strategists and say what worries you about the midterm elections. they dont say trump, dont sa...

Looked at the six countries that president trump had put on a list as countries that may not have great internal domestic security. do you think that -- i mean, to me the variable is that the person who became president was for banning all muslims. mine, do you think that the policy in and of itself is sound? do you think republicans -- >> of course not. the policy of saying youre going to ban people from certain countries is a great recruiting tool for isis in those countries. thats the policy ...

Wlous, the inner agency. they are used to a normal orderly national security process. they dont like freelancing they want organized fms process. they want buy in from the commander in chief. they would want that. i think the problem is really a policy problem which is that the president has to date been unwilling to push russia out of the way in the skies over syria. and as a result what youve seen is youve seen iranian drones, syrian fighter aircraft coming to attack those forces on the ground...

All flows into the national security adviser. and if the national security adviser doesnt have to check with the president, doesnt the national security adviser on these matters become president. >> i dont know any national security adviser or secretary of defense -- i would bet secretary mattis and general mcmaster are in that category. they dont want to operate as free agents. they dont want to operate without the input from the wlous, the inner agency. they are used to a normal orderly nation...

When you talk to republican senators on the hill, what they will say is what is the problem. they say we dont have 51 votes. they wont identify a policy problem. the goal is to pass something. there is less concern about what that something actually is. >> julie, how much of it is they want to stay away from the reality of the cbo scores and that they know the more thats known, the more they will get hit over the head with tens of millions of people who will lose care and who the people are and ...

People who voted for donald trump? it makes no sense. nobody made up the story about her server. nobody made up the story about the quid pro quo going on at the state department and her husbands foundation. by the way, if i hear someone say that she had a messaging problem one more time, my head is going to explode. hillary clinton had a policy problem. eric: right, right. >> one last thing, eric, can i say in the same interview she blamed the fake news on building up or putting in fake numbers ...

Deliberately and people look at it. whether it is lawyers or not, it can be done. i hope one of the things he doesnt do, i hope, is cancel daily briefing. thats really important. it shows that this government is open and willing to have scrutiny placed upon it by a press corps. there is an awful lot going on. >> one saying the tweets speak for themselves. >> the president continues to think he has a messaging problem. he doesnt have a messaging problem. he has a policy problem, personnel problem...

Low-income seniors, children and adults with disability. this is going to impact every american, including a lot of trump voters. especially if you look at that, and if what the ama says and the aarp says, if that is correct, that hits in the heart of trump country. >> yeah, thats exactly right. so we dont have the cbo projection of the most recent bill. but we have it for the bill on which the most recent bill was modeled. and if you look at that projection, the evidence suggests that the peopl...