what is the bottom line on better days ahead for health care? look, this bill has been ground up. we ve been watching it in real time, ground up in the collision between the gop s historic ideology and its modern coalition so on the one hand you have the voices on the right, mike leigh, rand paul saying it doesn t go far enough in uprooting obamacare and a larger group of moderates and main stream conservatives who say look we are taking away coverage largely from people who vote for us. look at the numbers the urban institute on who lost coverage under the senate health care bill, 80% don t have a college degree, 70% in a household where someone works full time and 60% of them are white. who does that describe? that describes the modern trump coalition. there is no way around that conundrum for the republicans. where does that leave them, ron? what is next? we heard m.j. and everybody describe a repeal and delay strategy, we ve heard that s one option. right. we ve also heard
wanted to go in a different direction you could find 50 plus one votes for something that would stabilize the exchanges. i don t think that would pass the house though. i don t think house conservatives are looking to stabilize exchanges. they want to repeal obamacare. it is a contradiction between the ideology of the party and interests of its modern coalition. it s hard to get around that at this moment. ron brownstein thank you for the bottom line on all of this. the piecemeal idea is what many suggested president obama should do. i think rahm emmanuel when he was in the white house was suggesting more of a piecemeal strategy, rather than the whole kit and kaboodle. that comes around again. but you this opposition then from the gop who wanted to get rid of all of that, didn t want to do any fixing because they wanted it gone. now you have the same dynamic flipped, different names, same game. so the people who should matter most is you, right, and in polls we saw that you didn t
going on and we don t expect it to end any time soon. i wonder whose beefing up , g that s a full plate. athena and shimon that you feel. let s bring in professor ron brownste brownstein. senator fien stein calling in investigation do you think he may be responding to something we didn t hear, something in closed doors? i think what you heard in public testimony was plenty to prompt that. you have two separate issues under investigation. the underlining conduct with whether there was collusion between anyone in the trump administration and the russian intelligence during the 2016 campaign to disrupt the campaign
with the you go to february of 2015 when he went to georgetown and gave a bril speech about law enforcement and policing and pushed back on the obama administration that didn t want to agree there was a ferguson effect. this man has been from both sides of the aisle loved and hated by both sides of the aisle. that s a good thing but i don t understand after nine meetings, at what point and time during that chronology of meetings do you say to yourself, okay i m not shocked this man is going to ask me to do something inappropriate okay push back. a lot of problems here ron, one of course is that we ve taken our eyes off the ball, russian messing with his election but how about the administrative agenda here in the united states? how about actually governing?
notably outspoken about trump during the campaign. jackie kucinich and solina zito and ron brownstein. jackie, let s talk more about rex tillerson since there are, you know, obviously, conflicting impressions and opinions of him. donald trump supporters, i think, and he, feel isn t it better to have someone who has dealt with vladimir putin, who knows vladimir putin rather than a novelist who doesn t know how to approach this guy? they have a point about that. that s what you ll hear ecoed throughout the campaign and people who do like rex tillerson. this is bigger than him. this is about russia. a pick like rex tillerson,