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Obama won election in 2008 with a movement behind him. with enormous crowds. he was getting enormous outpouring of support. people getting involved in politics who hadn't gotten involved. and almost from the day he got into office, all that energy went to his opposition. became a republican counter-obama movement. something similar is happening here with trump. trump came into office with far bigger crowds than his opponent, hillary clinton, far more energy on his side for change, but in an angry country, the anger comes against whoever's in power and that's what's happening here. >> now we kn...

And part of that is because they don't have a plan that they can put forward and say it's better and here's how it's better than obamacare and they might not be facing some of this opposition if they had that to bring back to their districts right now. >> alex, do we blame congress for not having a plan or is it just so difficult for speaker ryan trying to, like, herd cats when you got so members you have to try to satisfy? >> that's the big part of it. you had democrats struggle with the same thing when they were trying to get obamacare approved back eight years ago. look, it's easier to oppo...

All right. back to the panel. wow, listening to the town hall, francesca, you have both sides of the aisle, you got, you know, the woman who has a husband dying then you got the other woman who says she's got obamacare and health insurance is twice what it was in the last three years and she has three jobs. and the interesting thing is, i think senator cotton, you know, he's a freshman senator, you can't lay all this on him. he hasn't created years of this problem. so your thoughts. >> i think that it was good that he mentioned that he doesn't really care whether the people there are being pai...

The tensions between the former exxonmobil ceo and johnny destefano. joining me is the author of the story, alex eisenstat and white house correspondent for the daily beast. this has been driving discussion since president trump took office. welcome to you both. alex, your story. tell us who was there and when it happened and what it was about. >> sure. this was a meeting that happened last week. it was in the white house. you had secretary of state rex tillerson there. you had johnny destefano. oversees white house hiring. you had jared kushner there. you had reince priebus there. tillerson e...

Storied career at exxonmobil. used to picking his staff. trump has taken heavy hands when it comes to personnel selection in his cabinet agencies. i think you will get chafing there. he is not the only one that the problem has arisen. i think that really comes from the top. the style that trump has taken in micro managing has upset a lot of people. i think tillerson more than most just because of his background in business and being that sort of alpha personality. you will see more tension. >> if you look back at the last few republican secretaries of state. condoleezza rice, colin powell. all...