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Wisdom. the president is the ultimate decision maker. what we're seeing with the trade issue, there wasn't the process to go through the national economic council to come out with a consensus decision. even if you lose those arrangements, at least you had an opportunity to weigh in. i think the president would be illy served not to use those around him, particularly when you think about these matters where secretary mattis is weighing in, secretary tillerson, that's crucial. >> enjoy the weekend, folks. >> thank you. stormy daniels, north korea, russia, tariffs. we could sit here for the nex...

Obamacare just this week. this is an incredibly complex undertaking and republicans have been more focused on yelling and a lot of rhetoric about obamacare rather than advertising what their replacement would be. so while there are replacements floating around there's not a consensus decision. i think that's where the problem is going to be when it comes to republicans actually repealing obamacare. >> why do you think that is, though, elise? let's face it, they've been trying to repeal obamacare since day one and that was signed into legislation six years ago. that's a long time to come up wit...

Difficult, strategic discussions and difficult strategic fights within the movement and different types of lawyers, people with different types of approaches. do you feel like everybody is vindicated because it came out the way everybody wanted it to come out in terms of how this was fought for? do you think there's a lesson to be learned in terms of what the next fights are or what we've just been through? >> the ultimate lesson that should be learned, and you had mary on, when you think you have a legal case to bring, and you have a constitutional right to be vindicated, you have to bring th...

And fights in the movement and with lawyers and different types of approaches. do you feel like everybody is vindicated because it came out the way everybody wanted it to come out in terms of how this was fath for? do you think there's a lesson to be learned in terms of what the next fight is? >> the ultimate lesson that should be learned, and you had mary on when you think you have a legal case to bring, and you have a constitutional right to be vindicated, you have to bring that case. you may not win all the time. mary didn't win in the beginning, we didn't win in new york, but ultimately we...

The way to look at it. they voted against the ryan budget in committee. >> it wasn't sacred? >> it didn't balance the budget fast enough. it doesn't bring the budget in balance until 2040. they wanted to balance it faster. ryan and all of his crowd didn't like these guys. eric cantor seen as the chief threat to boehner in the immediate future didn't like them either. it was a consensus decision by tee party republicans and republican leadership and walter jones from north carolina. this is a guy republicans have had it in for half a decade now. he's been an outspoken critic of the iraqi war. t...