Investigation into russia and the president s unsubstantiated wiretap claims. Heres what he said in a weekly address earlier. Mr. President , i implore you, the country implores you, you have chosen two superb people to guide you in general mattis and general mcmaster. A seek their counsel. Listen to what they have to say. And cherish the trust and hope that was placed in you by virtue of your office by never again advancing claims that you know or should know are simply not true. Meanwhile, Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer on the fate of the president S Supreme Court nominee neil gorsuch. Heres what he told my colleague Rachel Maddow last night. The seat that Merrick Garland was nominated for. Mitch mcconnell held it up for a year. Well, if they can hold that seat up for a year just to elect a new president under a president who had no investigations, they should delay it for a while. Im not saying forever. Im not saying an amount of time. But lets see where these investigations lead . Because to have a president under investigation appoint a lifetime appointment, thats wrong. Lets bring in Nbcs Kelly Odonnell live from the white house. Kelly, the Trump Administration really not going to linger on this defeat about health care. Whats next . Reporter well, we ear learning something about the president s style in this way, thomas, because after all the buildup, all the talk about repealing and replacing obamacare from the president and certainly from republicans more broadly over the years, he seems ready to move on. Weve got republicans trying to figure out what to do, democrats feeling very good about this and feeling confident that the law they helped make part of their partys sort of main focus to keep it going, even though it may need some changes. And really the bottom line in washington this morning is what now . This morning the president s eye is already on his next target. We will probably start going very, very strongly for the big tax cuts and tax reform. Thatll benext. Reporter President Trump may be eager to shake off a stunning defeat. Vote no we can do better reporter while House Speaker paul ryan seemed to absorb the body blow. I will not sugar coat this. This is a disappointing day for us. Reporter after all the campaigning, the negotiating, all the touted dealmaking skills, failing to get the Republican Party to pass a core republican promise, repealing obamacare, notably left the president at least briefly humbled. We all learned a lot. We learned a lot about loyalty. We learned a lot about the votegetting process. Reporter some of that learning was delivered by the most conservative faction in the house nope as the freedom caucus. Their home districts are trump country. Im not betrayed. Theyre friends of mine. Im disappointed because we could have had it, so im disappointed. Im a little surprised, to be honest with you. And speaker ryan, who argued for weeks that this was the conservatives only chance to succeed on a promised repeal, kept his cool. Well, i dont want to cast blame. There is a block of no votes that we had that is why this department pass. Reporter and kept it real. Yeah, were going to be living with obamacare for the foreseeable future. I dont know how long lit take to replace this law. Reporter President Trump, who met with 120 lawmakers to win their support, distanced himself from any blame, despite his own immediate repeal promises. I never said repeal and replace it within 64 days. I have a long time. Reporter and said the fault lies with democrats. I think the losers are nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer because now they own obamacare. They own it. 100 own it. Reporter those Party Leaders celebrating a victory, perhaps the happiest theyve looked since november 7th. Today a victory for the Affordable Care acting, more importantly for the American People. Reporter and willing, they say, to work with President Trump, who hinted his deal making may look toward democrats next time. If they got together with us and got a Real Health Care bill, id be totally open it, and i think thats going to happen. Reporter and so at that democrats News Conference i asked them about the president s reaction, saying that he says they own it. The democrats laughed and said the president thought we owned it today, yesterday, and months ago. So they were in a rare moment in the last several months of feeling very good about their ability to be united, how they motivated their constituents at the town hall meetings, calling the offices, so for democrats a really good window. There is acknowledgment in the part of democrats that there are some things with the Health Care Law that are troublesome. Can they really Work Together now . Thats hard to say. Democrats certainly feel good about their ability to block republicans on this. Will that make them more or less willing to work with them . And will the president , who showed a little bit of a magnanimous outreach saying he wants a bipartisan bill, wants to work with democrats, this he follow through . Those are some of the questions were left with today. And for those really recalcitrant republicans who said that bill was just not going to work for them, and they talk about trying to make some changes, even that will be difficult, because they will not have in any time in the near future a chance to bring a bill back to the floor. Thats one of the question marks here. Even if they go back to the drawing board, work on it, there just isnt the stomach for Republican Leadership in the white house to revisit health care anytime soon. They want some wins so to speak, politically on tax reform, on immigration, if they can get those. Thomas . Speaker ryan saying yesterday its been easy to say no to things and criticize things. Its another thing to lead. Now that they have the white house, the senate and the house with this majority, they own it, but the minority will smile anyway and take the win for now. Thanks so much. Republicans trying to regroup after President Trumps defeat. Not able to deliver on that promise that he said to get it done on day one, repeal and replace obamacare, in those oval office remarks after deciding to pull the vote where we have the president saying democrats really own it, theyre the losers on obamacare. The best thing we can do politically speaking is let obamacare explode. Its exploding right now. Many states have big problems, almost all states have big problems. I was in tennessee the other day. I was in kentucky the other day and similar things are happening. So obamacare is exploding. Joining me now, congressman john yarmuth, the democrat who represents kentuckys third district, also Ranking Member on the house budget committee. Good to have you with me. You hear President Trump saying kentucky has big problems. Lets talk about the connect system. What are the issues youd like to see fixed . Well, thomas, thanks for having me on. There is one problem that virtually everyone acknowledge, and thats that there are unsustainable aspects to the individual Insurance Market. Now, the individual Insurance Market affects only about 5 of the country, populationwise. And so virtually Everything Else in the country is working at least moderately well. Medicare, medicaid, the Group Insurance policy where most americans have their insurance. But we do have problems in this one area, and unfortunately there were mechanisms in the Affordable Care act set up to deal with that, these issues, and the republicans over the last few years have sabotaged most of those. Steven brill in your last hour talked about that. There were ways to indemnify Insurance Companies if they got too many sick people and so forth, that republicans refused to fund. So there are things that we can do to make the system better, but in kentucky weve ensured more than half Million People out of a population of 4. 4 million through the Affordable Care act, and most of that is operating fairly well. People are Getting Health Care that they never have gotten in their life before. We know President Trump won on this argument of repealing and replacing obamacare on tay one. Talk to us about what it was like behind the scenes of knowing that this was an effort that was doomed to fail because of the lack of republican support. I think there was an element of frustration but also an element of vipd case. Ive been saying for two years now, and im sure ive said it on your programs before, that there really isnt any alternative to the Affordable Care act except going to single payer, or you can go back to where we were before the Affordable Care act. And the republicans have been searching for some kind of alternative that doesnt exist. The fundamental problem is republicans in Congress Just e sech eventually dont believe that the government should be involved in health care and theyre looking for something that doesnt exist anywhere in the world, which is a pure, Free Market Health care system. Were the only country in the world that doesnt have government organized or financed health care system, a singlepayer system, and theyre trying to find something that nobody else has ever found that works. So thats going to be a problem Going Forward as we try to improve on the Affordable Care act, is that their reluctance to have the government get involved at all. We know there were issues with the staterun exchange sites. Kentucky had one of the more successful programs. Also the federal site was an issue under president obama and kathleen sebelius, what they tried to get ramped up. Excuse me, sir. But if democrats are determined to have health care for all, what can be done to make it more competitive so that Insurance Companies dont drop out . Well, the first thing we have to do is the only way you can do it is force everybody to be in the individual market. You have to get Healthy People in with sick people, younger people in with older people, to make it commercially viable. Thats a real problem. Again, unless you have mandatory insurance, which we tried. That didnt work very well. We could make it even more punitive, but i dont think the American People would like that. I think the main thing we could do right now to help sustain the individual Insurance Market is to create a public option. And whether thats allowing individuals to buy into medicare at some actuarially established price or to create some other vehicle, i really think thats the only way to make sure that everybody whos in the individual market has access to care that they can afford. You predict tweaks to come, and we know that the president says the onus is on you, the democrats. They eventually have to come to him. Take a listen to this. I know some of the democrats and theyre good people. I honestly believe democrats will come to us and say, look, lets get together and get a Great Health Care bill or plan thats really great for the people of our country. And i think thats going to happen. Do you see leader pelosi or any other democratic members being willing to spearhead what President Trump is predicting there . I think actually there is an opportunity there. I dont think that President Trump, particularly with regard to health care, is ideologically committed to any particular course. And, you know, several years ago he was propounding singlepayer health care, universal health care. He even talked about it during the campaign, were going to insure everybody. I think theres an opportunity there to actually try to figure out how to create the best health care system, not how to figure out how to pursue an ideological goal, which in paul ryans case has always been a privatized medicare, rollback medicaid as much as you can, and to try to create his ideal free market system. Again, that just is impossible. I think President Trump probably understands that, and that represents a real opportunity i think for all of us. Well see if you take that opportunity in the near future. President trump would probably be willing to accept those meetings right now. Congressman john yarmuth, great to see you. Appreciate it. Thanks, thomas. When President Trump decided to pull the plug on his Health Care Bill, he picked up the phone and made a call. Called a journalist. Why you should sometimes answer a call even when it says blocked. Back with more. Lets talk asset allocation. Sure. You seem knowledgeable, professional. 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Joining me now is a White House Reporter for the Washington Examiner and jonathan allen, roll call columnist and author of shattered the inside story of Hillary Clintons defeat. Great to have you both here. Gabby, is there any upside to pulling this Health Care Bill . Well, i think they certainly avoided a major disaster on the floor of the house if this didnt pass and only secured less than 180 republican votes. I think the administration has an opportunity to regroup and focus on making accomplishments on tax reform. That seem to be the direction theyre headed. Certainly something just as if not more complicated than health care reform. So it will be interesting to see what happens there, especially after the riff thats kind of been exposed in the Republican Party through this whole health care debacle. I mean, there is significant discourse that occurred between republicans on the role that government should play in health care and thats going to have a pretty hefty impact Going Forward if they try to tackle health care again at the end of the year or in 2018 or down the road. Whatever they want to tackle, jonathan, this shows a real divide coming from the Majority Party in washington, d. C. And based on the fact that this didnt get a floor vote, theres really not a lot of credible evidence about who is being unloyal to the president on this. There have been a couple articles about a hit list that begins with an s is they might be keeping at the white house, if you catch my drift. Have you heard about that, and do you think that will be a problem for certain republican members moving forward, feeling pressure from the president . I think all those republicans that went out there and said ahead of time they were going to vote against the bill, particularly those the president thought could do so without harming themselves with their own constituencies will be on such a hit list, of course, starting with s, as you said. You like that. Im glad you like that. Yeah. No. Well done. I think everybody got it. I think one of the issues here Going Forward is youve got the folks that took this bill down being emboldened. Youve got a president who doesnt really trust the speaker to get votes for him anymore. He let paul ryan wrote this bill. Paul ryan wrote a bill that cut taxes for wealthy people, took benefits away from the lower end of the economic spectrum, and you saw what happened. If that bill had been put on the floor, i think, you know, you would have seen republicans running away from it. I shouldnt say nobody, but a large set of republicans didnt want to be recorded as being for that, which is why they pulled it. And, you know, Going Forward, they said that they want to do tax reform next. Thomas, we have seen obamacare pass, medicare prescription drugs pass, Childrens HealthInsurance Program pass, all since the last time w