This is so far looking at the reelect, they seem to have a rule about who has the legal fees paid for by campaign donors. You have to be named donald trump. Did good thing for the trump family is they have two of those guys. Two people. Junior and senior. Ivanka needs anything, uhhuh. Kushner, do you get any money . Exactly. Poor mike pence, next week, is going to be raising money for the trump reelection fund. Hes raised money for his own pac and donated that money to the trump reelection fund paying for juniors legal fees and mike pence pays for his own. The funniest part is he then has to sell the plasma to help jared and the other non donald trump Family Members pay their legal fees. Running out of blood. Yeah. You know that the president s going to volunteer him. Tap mike. Hes healthy. The paler he looks, the more hes pumping into the trump
family legal fees. Thank you. Have a great weekend. Thank you. You too. All right. I m in for launs odonnell. To rally tonight in alabama, donald trump talked about how he cant seem to close the deal with republican senators on Health Care Repeal and why trump voters wont be getting the wall they have been promised. John mccain has gone full maverick this afternoon. Announcing moments ago he is a no on the Graham Cassidy bill. Saying the process is garbage. Hopefully now stop stupid. Knockout blow may not be far off. I obviously have very serious reservations about the bill. I do want to wait until i get the cbo analysis. Basically her saying im waiting until they say its a terrible bill before i vote against it. I think its dead as a cucumber. Dead as what . Door nail. They finally get a president who will sign the legislation and they dont have the guts to
vote for it. Okay . I think its officially called the Screw You Billy Kimmel Act of 2017 sigh that what theyre calling it . Better to put the decisions in the hands of the state. If florida makes the decisions, it is legal to bring an alligator to a strip club. Okay . The republican quest to repeal and replace obamacare is on the brink of failure once again tonight, hours after senator john mccain announced his opiniposition to his best friends bill. Donald trump attacked john mccain over his opposition to the republican plan. They gave me a list of ten people that were absolute noes. These are ten republican senators. Now, john mccains john mccains list john mccain was
straight night of scathing criticism of Repeal Effort of late night tv host jimmy kimmel. I see these comments from these angry people, they say, what qualifies you to talk about this stuff . Youre a comedian. Go back to being not funny. I feel like its my duty to remind these people so concerned about my qualifications, the guy you voted for for president , his Job Qualification was this. Meatloaf, youre fired. Okay . He fired meatloaf on television. Athen you put him in the white house. Ill say it again. Its more important than ever to call your senators and tell them not to gut American Health care. Excellent point. After mccain came out against the bill saying to continue to insist on regular order, kimmel tweeted this this afternoon. Thank you, senator john mccain, for being a hero again and again and now again. An adviser on the Affordable Care act and ej deon and opinion
writer for the Washington Post and political analyst and coauthor of one nation under trump. Cant wait to see that. Careen jean pierre. Ill go with you first since youre at the table. The irony of republicans saying jimmy kimmel should not speak about the bill because he is a Tv Personality and the tv penaltys in the white house. Jimmy kimmel said why he is qualified. This is an adorable picture. And he tweeted, hey senator john mccain, thank you for fighting for kids like me. Senator collins and senator Lisa Murkowski, thats from his son. Isnt that more powerful . Absolutely, joy. He is not a health care guy. Hes a powerful spokesperson for Whats Going On right now with aca, repeal of aca. The thing to remember looking that the photo, his child has a
preexisting condition. Right. Right . And in this bill by the time his kid would have turned 1 years old, he would have reached a lifetime cap. Right, right. Jimmy kimmel understands this. He while he will be fine because hes wealthy and can afford the surgeries, he understands there are people that cannot afford that and taking the mantle and fight for people. Yeah. Absolutely. Nera, you know, one does wonder. Jimmy does set up senator Lisa Murkowski and senator collins, you are up, they were so against the other bill based on the potential and one wonders about the hesitation this time around. Lets listen to donald trump tonight trying to woo Lisa Murkowski. Your premiums are surging. Your deductibles are through the roof. We have one state, the state of alaska, its up more than 200 . And im having a hard time getting a certain vote but she is a good person and i think she will come through. I mean, if you look, alaska is up over 200 . So that means obamacares no good. So we shouldnt have a hard time getting her vote and i think she is going to come through. I hope so. Before i give your answer, that was Jimmy Kimmels wife who tweeted that. He retweeted it. To be accurate. The case that trump is trying to make to murkowski is obamacare is so horrible. But the deal theyre supposedly offering to woo her is to let alaska keep obamacare. Does that make any sense to you . No. It shows that obamacare, the Affordable Care act, is actually what real people want in alaska. The governor is happy with the Affordable Care act. Senator murkowski has said she basically wants to keep the elements of it. You know, its crazy about this
is that Lisa Murkowski im sure knows Health Care Better than donald trump, cassidy or graham. Shes actually weighing this bill and if she does hold to the word she said before which is that she wants a good deal for alaska an she wants a good deal for the country, she will vote no. The crazy part of the president s rants tonight is that the person who is driving up costs in alaska is donald trump. Its his actions that are causing it. She wants a stable bill. She wants a bipartisan bill. The republicans scuttled a bipartisan bill to get that. In order to jam through this partisan effort. And so, Lisa Murkowski knows that. If she holds true to anything she said in june, july, then she will vote no and i hope we see she votes no in the days to come but about health care this whole bill is like the crazy ending of
medicaid. Do you understand why she is his tatding to say no . I think she is hesitating to say no just to say im a republican. Ill give my leadership a little time. Id be really surprised if Susan Collins votes for this bill. I think the signals she is sending is shell vote no and as you say, two of the states that lose money under this formula are maine and alaska. Which is why theyre trying to cook up apparently this special deal for Lisa Murkowski and if youre going to let alaska keep obamacare because murkowski wants that, you could let every state keep obamacare just by scuttling the whole bill and that would be simpler. Right exactly. Thats exactly it. And, you know, politico with a headline today saying Trump Pivotally the white house is harboring doubts with mixed signals. An official told politico, said this out loud, we really arent sure what the impact will be of
passing the bill. If they dont know what the bill does and not about policy, right . It cant be about policy and meanwhile the New York Times is reporting the same thing i was hearing from republicans and texting yesterday that it is donors, gop donors are furious according to the report of corey gardner, the head of the nrsc told gop senators we havent kept the promise. The donors are mad. It is about policy. Thats exactly right. The rhetoric of eight years of Repealing Obamacare and this bill is like the worst of all of the bills put into one and its not repealing and replacing. It is, hey, you are on your own. Right. But yet this is whats the problem here. You remember we had donald trump say the house bill was mean but they just dont care about the impact of tens of millions of people. They just dont. It is all about like you said their donors and keeping that awful rhetoric they ran with. And with you, ej, this is
donald trump tonight admitting that, saying that the reason to pass the bill because you said you would pass the bill. This is donald trump tonight. So they were getting the great votes like i think they voted what . 61 times. Like 61 times to repeal or replace. They finally get a president who will sign the legislation and they dont have the guts to vote for it. Okay . They dont have the guts to vote for it. You know, ej, you have written about the Republican Party and evolution since really going back to the goldwater era. How do we get to a point of point of Public Policy is not policy at all . It is simply because did donors are demanding the tax cut, they want the money and you said youd do it . How did we get here . Well, i think its been and we talk about this in our book, its been an evolution in the Republican Party that the right wing took over the party, the donors played a big role in that. They drove out all sorts of liberals. Think back to john chaffey and
very serious about health care and introduced a fairly progressive bill. All those people are gone right now. But were at an even worse stage here because its as if nobody cares about the policy. They just want a win. It Doesnt Matter What the win looks like. Doesnt matter whats in the bill. The republicans havent been able to pass anything because theyve given the right wing of their party veto over every issue because theyre unwilling to deal with the democrats. And so, thats why theyre stuck with no legislation and we are stuck confronting this Health Care Horror Show if this bill ever passed. You know, neera, one person that cares about the policy is rand paul believing that the federal government to withdraw entirely from assisting with health care and being honest about the fact of no one getting help at all. People like mccain upset about process. Murkowski and others are concerned about their states and
legitimate. You helped write this Affordable Care act. At the time, it is closer to the bob dole rebuttal to hillary care than it is are you as shocked as i am that the Republican Party is devolved to the point its just about handing cash to donors and nothing about policy . I mean, whens insane about this proposal, this legislation, is it is the most radical rewriting of health care in decades. We might have one hearing on it on monday. And this bill is far to the right of what the house passed. Its far to the right of what the senate was considering just a month ago. Month and a half ago. The idea here is will create chaos. Medicaid directors across the country said it creates chaos throughout the system. Dont take it from me. Take it from insurers, hospitals, doctors. The idea that were going to rip up Peoples Health care and just send it to the states and the
states will just create Health Care Plans they never created before, a level of disruption and no so few senators id be surprised if 20 republican senators know whats in the bill as of now and supposed to vote on it next week. Yeah. The idea this is what feeds cynicism in america. This is what makes people hate congress. Yeah, yeah. People literally say out loud my donors are why i want to throw 30 million Peoples Health care away and why people are angry. Absolutely. You know who doesnt seem to understand, the jimmy kimmel . He mos more about this policy than the two people whose names are on the bill from what we tell right now. Neera, thank you for joining us. Coming up tonight, at his rally donald trump was asking questions about russians after the Tweet Tantrum about russia earlier today. Up next, trump campaigns for incumbent senator strange by telling the voters, it might have been a mistake to endorse him at all. Next tuesday, trump, Trump Backed Interim senator strange will face former alabama chief Justice Moore whos being backed by Trump Supporters like steve bannon, sarah palin. Latest polling finds moore up by 8 points. According to donald trump, Luther Strange isnt part of the dreaded establishment like moores supporters fear. In fact, trump says strange doesnt even know the Senate Majority leader. People are saying hes friendly. Whether you like Mitch Mcconnell or not doesnt matter but friendly with mitch. He doesnt know him. He was there for a few months. And theyve put that mantle around his neck. I told mitch id like to say this. Im telling you. He doesnt know Mitch Mcconnell at all. How would he see him in the senate . Joining us now president of Endeavor Strategies and former spokesperson for breitbart. Curt, so, Luther Strange doesnt
them over, pull them away from ray moore based on their loyalty to donald trump . No. I dont think it is because at this point if you read breitbart as an only source of information, you believe that donald trump is being tricked into supporting, you know, the candidate hes got behind, that hes been coopted by the west wing globalists to tell him to get behind Luther Strange and almost unwillingly and i think thats part of the posture tonight. I never saw an endorsement where the person giving the endorsement advocates for the other guy. Yeah. With friends like that, my god, you know, donald trump did the job for moore right there tonight and basically gave an endorsement that was really supporting of the other guy and even said hell campaign with the opponent should he win. Yeah. And it just showed how concerned donald trump is about the headline that is will happen which will be, trump loses in alabama. Bannon beats trump. He is so preoccupied with how
hell look and worried about looking weak and a Quote Unquote Loser trying to preempt that already saying he supports the guy. Ej, remind me of the French Election and supported lepen and she lost and he said i was always behind you to the guy that won. It is really won. Dont seek an endorsement from donald trump. Whats really interesting here is that this is the donald trump steve bannon primary. The Financial Times put it. Steve bannon would like to show trump that his people are forhim not because hes trump. He cant do anything. They wont follow him anywhere. Theyre for him because of far right nationalist christian views. And so, if moore wins, it will be seen certainly by breitbart and steve bannon, a victory for their strategy and if strange pulls this out actually then
trump will be able to say theyre with me. I can pull anybody over the line. So this has some real implications for the total workings of donald trump head, but also, the internal workings of the trump operation. It will empower the bannonites. They really want to show something to trump. Yeah. I mean, if you asked the question of nbc news of a poll to republicans, more of a trump supporter, 58 told our poll that theyre a trump supporter more than a Republican Party supporter and interesting if hes not to pull Luther Strange across the line, whose party is it anyway . Donald trump said Something Else that he said a lot tonight and listen to another thing and went after without saying his name colin capper anymore. Take a look. Wouldnt you love to see a nfl owner when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son of a [ bleep ] off the
field right now. Hes fired. Hes fired when people like yourselves turn on television and see people taking the knee playing our Great National anthem the only thing you could do better is if you see it, even if its one player, leave the stadium. I guarantee things will stop. Things will stop. Just pick up and leave. Jemele hill, the white house demanded she be fired by espn, not one nfl owner, not roger goodell, will say one word about what he said about kaep or other nfl players. Not a one. Why are you bringing up capper nicks name in alabama . Never mind. I know the answer. Your thoughts . Good for her for still speaking up. Yeah. Amen to her. Look. So much for the president for promoating the constitution in the First Amendment. Right . Thats what hes supposed to be doing. At the end of the day, not only is donald trump a petulent child, he is a racist, a racist in the 70s, 80s, and 90s and when he first stepped into the political arena. He was one when he kicked off his president ial campaign and now unfortunately hes using this bull horn to really push racism further and further and the president of the United States. He is the person whos sitting in the oval office signing, you know, Executive Orders behind the resolute desk. But a