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Fit the bill better than probably many appointments over the last several years of being in the middle of the road, his record not inflammatory. clear but not inflammatory. if trump picks someone like oo on the other side right leaning, i think the democrats will have a hard time standing in the way like republicans. republicans made a credible argument. i didnt agree with it that a president shouldnt have in his last term an opportunity to replace someone and the person he was replacing was the...

Morning, one attacking schumer, but also saying while the affordable care act is disaster, democrats and republicans should work together on fixing it or a replacement. what weve seen over the first two full days of congress, thats not going to happen any time soon. >> lets discuss it now. california republican congressman darrell issa is a member of the house foreign affairs and judiciary committees. good morning, congressman? >> good morning, alisyn. >> lets start with whats going on with the ...

Amazing! >> well, look. i think also -- harold mentioned this too. this is a fight that for democrats dont forget about the political pressure that they are under. their base knows the merrick garland story and they are angry about it and their base cares deem about supreme court. chuck shumer chumer is going to the fight for the sake of fighting it. democrats in a difficult place right now and gaplie grappling leading the party next and huge for elizabeth warrens and bernie sanders. there is so...

His democratic base. he is strengthening chuck schumer with the people you see around him right now, the people that he works for in the united states senate and with nancy pelosi. so he is actually playing into chuck schumers hand and making him stronger. the best way to hurt chuck schumer is to say, i like this guy, can get along with this guy. yeah, maybe he is saying some nasty things about me but i can make deals with him. >> i totally agree and i think on infrastructure and tax reform that...

But we have to think about, what is the deterrent, how can we make it so it never happened. we dont have the threat anymore when we had the cold war with the nuclear bomb. we have to think that way. >> you know what, putin, you are really smart not to respond to what president obama has done in terms of sanctions. what kind of message is that? >> coming up. i just want to keep going. so much for civility. turning into a war of words, trump calling schumer a clown and schumer firing back.

Medicare and medicaid. its a massive complicated thing. harold, if you were a strategist for the senate republicans would you feel comfortable in doing a two-step process or delay a repeal? >> i would i want to do it all at one time. how you just described it and what is said around the table, i think pence is the one to watch in the whole process and i think yesterday it became abundantly clear from the way ryan attempted to answer the question. he even looked back at pence as he was trying to ...

Its gotta be a strange world for him. he probably knows a lot of secrets about donald trump, because theyve known each other for a long time. >> strange for schumer and trump and for trump and lot of republicans. i think the democrats and schumer will find ways to cooperate on issues like infrastructure and try like the devil to block a lot of other areas. one of the lessons one absorbed from the last eight years, senate obstructionism really works. and merrick garland is a case in point. >> dan...

Accused many members of wrong doing that were later proved not to be the case. president-elect trump reinforced that today and had a big impact. >> were only a day and a half into this. we will learn and learn as we go forward, but what have we learned in the first day and a half of the new players? senator chuck schumer, the one new face in the leadership. donald trump did tweet yesterday and republicans later retreated from this idea that they were going to pull the teeth out of this independe...

And i mean it with the best of intentions. if you abandon change and simply embrace the shop-worn hard right pro-corporate, pro- elite policies, diametrically opposed to the many campaign themes to helped you win working class votes and get you elected, your presidency will not succeed. making america great again requires more than 140 characters per issue. with all due respect, america cannot afford a twitter presidency. >> so david, honestly trump and schumer both new yorkers and known each ot...

People. to whom the president-elect promised so much. accountable to the people of all colors and creeds and sexual orientations in this country, for whom he is president. accountable to the millions of americans who voted for him, with all due respect, america cannot afford a twitter presidency. >> among the promises schumer says democrats will hold trump to, pushing for a big infrastructure package. 33 of donald trumps accountant picks will meet with lawmakers on capitol hill. including exxo...