Tweeting, crazy joe score borough and dumb as a rock mika are not bad people but their low rated show is dominated by their msnbc bosses. Too bad. His tirade which again thursday with ugly personal attacks against mika seems to be yet another low for a president who constantly seems to be redefining rock bottom. Mika and joe summed up what many thought when they wrote in an oped for the Washington Post under the headline donald trump is not well. And they made this observation on their show friday. We have friends inside the white house that have told us over the past month theyre getting more concerned about his emotional state. The guy thats in the white house now is not the guy we knew two years ago. Not even close. Now some democrats are going even further. According to yahoo investigate at this reporter michael isikoff, 25 hou25 house democrt to declare the president incapacitated and under the 25th amendment force him out of office. Why the urgency now . Has donald trump suddenly taken a turn for the worse or is his offensive behavior just more of the same old trump that weve heard many, many times before . Im automatically attracted to beautiful women. I just start kissing them. Its like a magnet. And when youre a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Whatever you want. Grab them by the [mute]. When mexico sends its people, theyre not sending their best. Theyre bringing drugs, theyre bringing crime. Theyre rapists. She gets out and starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions. And you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever. Written by a nice reporter. Now the poor guy, you got to see this guy, ah, i dont know what i said, ah, i dont remember. So we talk about the media and by the way, some of the media is terrific, but most of it, 75 , is absolutely dishonest, absolute scum. Joining me now is frank rich, writer at large for new York Magazine and author of the latest cover story how a presidency ends. This is a great piece by the way, frank rich. Thank you. Really, really, really, really, good. I think everyone should take the time out to read it. One of the things it did, i watched, i was telling you in the break, i just watched get me roger stone. When you watch that and read this together they sort of give you a companion understanding of the era that were rerunning, almost like were rerunning the nixon era. This is Donald Trumps tweet this morning against cnn. Here it is. He tweeted, you see that . That is donald trump when he was a character on tv performing on wwe. And hes retweeted a gif of himself doing that, and the tweet simply says, fraud news cnn fnn which means fox news network. What is that . Its insanity, it really is. Obviously its an attempt that might be successful to drum up violence against journalists which is something hes been doing right along. And by the way, this whole thing that hes a different person than he was two years ago, no, hes the same person. Its just now thats toxically combined with power and a 24 7 platform. Donald trump has defended his sort of lack of dignity on social media. He tweets ridiculous things on social media that any other president if you put that in a Statement People would think the person was losing their mind. He tweeted, my use of social media is not president ial, its modern day president ial. He gets away with it. He doesnt even know what really modern media is and apparently doesnt really know how to email so hes discovered this one toy that, as bill maher keeps pointing out, he probably uses in the toilet and plays it fairly well. Thats his idea of social media and someone whos told him that line. Steve bannon or someone. But heres the thing. This guy is now going to meet with vladimir putin, who is either an american adversary or his boss, but either way, this is a really crucial moment for this country. Forget about even washington and health care and all of that, we have this guy going to talk to putin. That is the thing, donald trump is two things. Hes sort of funny, right, and you can sort of read his tweets as entertaining and amusing and sort of weird and laugh at it but theres also kind of funny scary because even though the presidency doesnt weird as much power as most americans think it does but theres a lot of damage he can do. Should americans be laughing at these tweets or afraid . You shouldnt laugh at violence. In this pressure cooker, in this violent america of the moment and this politically angry, thats not funny. And the truth is, youre absolutely right, his power is limited. Witness the fact that hes gotten nothing done in washington, but it isnt limited on the foreign stage and in Foreign Policy and he is leaving our shores to do god knows what. Former Richard Clarke who is the famous hair on fire guy who tried to warn george w. Bush about 9 11 to no avail was on bill maher on friday night and this is what he said about his fears about donald trump. The president s going to meet with putin next week. Advisers will not even say that hes going to bring this up. No, he wont. Because he was the beneficiary. Of course. Thats why hes not investigating it and doing all the things we need to do to make sure it doesnt happen again. This is the 21st century equivalent of having marines land on the jersey shore. They invaded our country, they invaded our political system and they won, and he doesnt care because he won. The razor explanation, presuming donald trump has the same love of country that anyone else would is that donald trump benefitted from what the russians did before and wouldnt mind benefitting from it again. Is that a fair assumption . We have to wonder that this commission that hes created which i know youre talking about later is an instrument of the russian government to try to affect, for all we know, the 2018 and 2020 elections. This may be part of the process. For all we know, if i may be slightly bold, this might be what he and putin are talking about, not the past. Even if its just on his own, if you look at the combination of traits that you see in donald trump, this win at all costs mentality that doesnt matter how you win as long as you win, youre willing to accept russian intervention if it helps you win, it feels like youre willing to suppress lots and lots of votes, millions and millions of votes and violate the rights of millions of americans as long as you win. Are we setting ourselves up for a 2020 that could be even scarier and watergate on triple amounts of steroids in 2016 . Maybe but we dont know yet. Thats a long time away and my theory is that trump is not going to last that long. Thats a point i want to stop you on. In this piece which i highly recommend, watergate didnt become watergate overnight. You walk the readers through the timeline about the Public Opinion of people in regards to nixon and how long they hung on. In july of 1973 which is now 13 months after the watergate breakin, by that point nixons attorney general and Campaign ManagerJohn Mitchell had been indicted. There had been the famous two months of live televised Watergate Senate hearings led by sam irvin that most of the country watched, 71 of the country watched. Woodward and burnstein reported that the watergate breakin was just a tiny fraction of an enormous criminal operation by the white house. As people went away that summer, this time in 1973, 22 of the country thought that nixon should be removed from office. Wow. And constituents were saying they were tired of watergate. His Approval Rating was in the upper 30s, sort of where trump is now. Nixon employed the same tactics, going to the well of White Working Class voters, but also his take on the media, i want to play a sound bite from october of 1973, at the height of watergate. This is Richard Nixon talking about the press. I have never heard or seen such outrageous, vicious, distorted reporting in 27 years of public life. Im not blaming anybody for that. Perhaps what happened is that what we did brought it about, and therefore, the media decided that they would have to take that on. At least he did it with more style. Thats what i was thinking too. But it was exactly the same line. The media is the enemy. He used to tell his aides to write that on the black board, the media is the enemy. They were trying to steal an election that he had won in 1972 and reverse the thing. He also, every time he denied a watergate story, he said there are four or five investigations that prove im exaggerated. Exonerated. From that point to when he resigned was another 13 months. What made the difference when he did resign, republicans finally, not brave republican leaders, they didnt exist then any more than now, but congressmen scared for their lives as the midterms approach. All about selfpreservation. Be patient because theyre sort of spinelessness will turn to outright terror when they think it will impair their right to get reelected. This time next year. Frank rich, always a treat to talk to you. Thank you. Up next, republicans are out this morning trying to put lipstick on that little piggy we call trump care. Thats next. We mean how can we help . We mean what can we do . We mean its our turn. To do our part. To serve you, for all youve done to serve us. Were turning back the tide of all of the rules and regulations that were put in place previously that decreased choices, that increased costs. All of those things, if you look at it in its totality, and nobody is looking at it in its totality, we will bring down premiums, increase coverage and increase choices and i believe will increase the quality of care provided in this nation. Republican officials flooded the airwaves this morning with basically this message, obamacare must be repealed, and dont worry, the gop is on it. After a week in which Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell had to pull his Health Care Bill, then set a friday deadline for a revised bill which has now passed with no compromise in sight and when hes even faced calls from the tweeter in chief to adopt an unworkable and unwise repeal now and replace at some point later in the future strategy, what republicans might be feeling is closer to what mcconnell told reporters on friday, quote, its not easy making America Great, is it . First, lets reestablish for the panel here where we are in terms of the majority of americans views on the Health Care Bill. 45 opposite the bill in the latest poll. 40 said they dont know enough about the bill to make a decision. 12 support the bill. Well put that up in a minute. That is just to reestablish the baseline there it is. So that is where we are with the bill. Im going to go to you first on this, perry bacon jr. This is the latest sales pitch thats being made for the people whose marquee is repeal obamacare and replace it with trumpcare. Repeal obamacare. This is what white house aide mark short has said, and this is i think what he said on friday, that repeal and replace can actually be bipartisan. Had take a listen. If the replacement part of too difficult for republicans to come together, lets go back and take care of the first step and repeal. Even those 49, theres another member, todd young from indiana, who when he was in the house voted for the bill too. So you have 50 members on record having voted for that recently, so thats an option. At that point if youve repealed it, you can come back with a replacement effort that could be more partisan. Perry, does that make sense to you, that somehow democrats would get on board with a full repeal of obamacare followed by a replacement determined by the 50 republicans that control the votes in the senate . What theyre really laying out is you have a repeal and then you basically have like a ticking clock where in two years or in one year all of obamacare goes away. Its basically sort of like a debt ceiling threat. And then you bring democrats to the table that way. Its odd because in December Paul ryan proposed this very tactic and donald trump said no, thats a bad idea. That seems unpopular, lets not do it that way. It was very odd on friday i thought for donald trump to say never mind, lets try this repeal. This repeal and delay idea will be even more unpopular than the actual bill. But yes, thats what the idea is here. Its interesting that theyre selling it jamal because mcconnell seemed to rule out on friday that that was not going to happen. Not only was that not going to happen but hes already ruled out working with democrats in bipartisanship except as in an emergency, like pull pin in case of emergency measure. This is Mitch Mcconnell back in february on working with democrats at the time that they were in full repeal mode. Its clear that in the early months its going to be a republicansonly exercise. We dont expect any democratic cooperation on the replacement of obamacare. We dont expect any democratic cooperation on tax reform. Either republicans will agree and change the status quo or the markets will continue to collapse and well have to sit down with senator schumer. The markets are not in collapse. The individual market is having problems in about 38 counties because republicans wont promise to fund the subsidies that pay for peoples insurance. Republicans are killing the market for individual insurance buyers. The market is not in collapse, remember that, viewers, no matter how many times republicans say that to you. Is that a reality that eventually if republicans continue to refuse to fund the markets then they really will collapse because of what republicans are doing and theyll have no choice but to go to democrats and say lets do a bailout of the Insurance Industry . Theyll have no choice but to go to democrats because at the end of the day the president and republicans are in charge of everything in washington. The American People dont pay a lot of attention to this but they know whos in charge. If something is wrong, you tend to go to the person in charge to fix it. The problem with what mcconnells approach is now or trumps approach which is saying lets repeal it now and deal with the replace later, is that who trusts that that will happen. It just wont happen. Nobody trusts that will happen. I dont think anybody believes it. Theyll be happy they repealed it and that will be the end of the story. Well all be sitting around figuring it out. The free market will be working and theyll be choosing to be uninsured, according to republicans. Teenag tara, tom price which is the health and Human Services secretary which is attempting to sell this idea that not having insurance does not mean that you dont get health care, hes been floating these vague ideas for a long time, including back when president obama talked to republicans about what he wanted to do. This is in 2010. This is the president going before republican members of congress to talk about health care, and tom price asked him a question. Take a look. You cant structure a bill where suddenly 30 Million People have coverage and it costs nothing. I understand. Were not debating this bill, but what should we tell our constituents who know that weve offered these solutions and yet hear from the administration that we have offered nothing . Let me im using this as a specific example so let me answer your question. You asked a question, i want to answer it. Its not enough if you say, for example, that weve offered a Health Care Plan and i look up, this is just under the section that you just provided me or the book that you just provided me, summary of Gop Health Care reform bill. The gop plan will Lower Health Care premiums for American Families and small businesses, addressing americas number one priority for health reform. I mean, thats an idea that we all embrace. But specifically, its got to work. Tara, their idea at the time was lower premiums. Right. Tada. I mean, the idea that these two parties who are at these poles being able to negotiate anything, do you think thats realistic . First let me point out something very obvious here. That bite that you just played tells the entire story. Why is there no bite like that now . Because it does not exist. Because democrats have not been included in the process. That bite shows that president obama and democrats included republicans in the process. Republicans opted to instead attack what the president was trying to do and attack the legislation and sabotage the legislation, but they had every opportunity. And guess what, that bite, there are tons of other ones just like that because republicans were included in the process and chose not to participate. So was the public. I mean, town hall after town hall, even the president holding town halls, explaining the Health Care Bill. 161 amendments. I dont know if theyre all republican amendments but more than 100 included in a bill but then those same republicans who offered the amendments did not vote for the bill. Van, i want to bring you into this discussion. One of the reasons we wanted to talk to you and pinched you from politics nation this morning was that you wrote a fascinating take on why its so hard for this country to come to agreement on having universal health care and it is a take i had not heard anywhere else and even the link to dr. Kings fights for civil rights. Can you summarize that for us . Yeah. So what i wrote about there was how the history of health care in america is intricately linked to civil rights. So the reason why our system is the way it is, a privatebased system that doesnt cover everybody and especially as the rest of the world moves more and more towards universal health care, think about the last century of american politics. That system of universal care really has worked with, say, jim crowe america. I think Public Officials say no. What i wrote about there was how the voices for universal health care led to medicare and medicaid, led to obamacare eventually. They all came out of the civil rights movement, they came out of black activism and progressive activism. So you look at the response to obamacare, you look at sort of the over the last 50 years the response against medicaid, those have all had some sort of racial components to t