In washington it s about proximity to power. who you know, and who you work for. which makes me to my next point, molly. this is a changing of the guard between establishment, it seems the administration when they were coming in that they needed the conduit to congress. people who understood washingto washington. whether or not it s these people s fault, it doesn t appear to have translated into legislative success on the hill for them. or it may have been a good way to operate your first six months and maybe it s time for a change of strategy. journalists, analysts, and people working for trump themselves, they need to come to terms with how different this presidency is from the typical presidency. for the people who work for trump, it might be wise to embrace that. sometimes the medications shop is trying to put a typical strategy approach for an atypical president. martha: we will end on that. great to see all three of you.
Five gop senators are openly publicly saying this present version and more may born. if more than two republicans oppose the bill, it will not pass. democrats are trying shore up the opposition earlier today. chris van holland spoke at a town hall. we re bringing people together and asking them to reach out to their friends and neighbors by phone, over social media, texting, no matter what, in other states and asking tear friends and relatives to contact their republican senators. we feed three republican senators to do the right thing by their constituents. not by the party bosses if washingto washington. you were sitting right there, we played a little bit. what did we miss in that conversation that you had? reporter: i think what led to that response is what are
Generational change. i deeply believe we need generational strepgth. i think to make nancy pelosi is a mistake. they re not democrats the real backbone of the democratic party are young people who voted 58% for hillary clinton, elected barack obama twice. groups like flipable, run for something, indivisible. they re organizing the daylights of all of these district. that s where the real strength is. these candidates needs to come from the grass roots up, fought be selected by washington. thank you. thank you. all right, coming up, more reaction on the republican health care bill. they are holding a town hall and health clinic with voters in maryland today. we ll go there.
Mueller and that the white house was considering firing him, this is a very that s bad, that looks very bad for them, you can t make bob mueller look very happy and see that up on the tv screens all across america. it took some serious backpedaling on this one. chris: i don t know if they peddled all the way back. the reality here, this is sort of like a sports team, what you say in the press about how great your team is and how you will win all the games now you re the best, the danger is that sooner or later your players start to believe, and they don t train hard enough and they are intelligent enough and the danger with president trump and that his surrogates are out trying to smear mueller, which is what you do in washington because it s the swamp and you go out and say he s a jerk and he s a bum and taste terrible and whatever because you are trying to mitigate his findings, whatever he comes up with if he says something that, if you want at least your base do not believe it.
to the best of your memory you had no conversation with ambassador kislyak at that meeting? i don t recall, certainly i can assure you nothing improper if i had a conversation. it s conceivable if that occurred, i just don t remember. i guess i could say possibly had a meeting, but i still do not recall it. martha: a lot of counting of the times he said i don t recall and people saying how could that possibly be, your thoughts? ken: i m very sympathetic with that. my goodness, it s difficult for us to recall what happened last week. going back some considerable time. it was not one of those interactions would automatically say you should remember that, a reasonable person would remember that. martha: because people met with kislyak all the time and he was a very permanent figure around washington and showed up at a lot of these things, right? ken: exactly, it was a social kind of gathering, or at least it was social context as opposed to we are going over to