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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 don't have the guts to vote for it. okay? they don't 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 you'd do it? how did we get here? >> well, i think it's been and we tal...

Very serious about health care and introduced a fairly progressive bill. all those people are gone right now. but we're at an even worse stage here because it's as if nobody cares about the policy. they just want a win. it doesn't matter what the win looks like. doesn't matter what's in the bill. the republicans haven't been able to pass anything because they've given the right wing of their party veto over every issue because they're unwilling to deal with the democrats. and so, that's why they're stuck with no legislation and we are stuck confronting this health care horror show if this bill...

Handled the communication of this deal. >> nbc's chuck todd thank you. you can catch chuck every week day morning on "the run down". joining me now is michael lichter and also e.j.deon. how do you grade the administration's handling of the effort? >> c, i think at best. i think that they might have better anticipated that there would be some reaction given all the stories out there about sergeant bergdahl's past. and i don't quite understand yet why they didn't give anybody in congress a heads up. on the other hand i think i might then turn around and give them some compensatory points. i got ...

Opportunity. and as we said earlier i think to make the assumption that people will be so glad to get the p.o.w. out that congress will understand. but still again as we have already talked about there is always controversy over releasing people from guantanamo. i think two things here. one is i think tony blinken did say something very important which is let's give sergeant bergdahl a chance to tell his side of the story and in particular did he have all of his faculties about him? the second thing is you wonder if this negotiation or whatever the administration wants to call it was part of a...

Prevail over him because he's out of ammunition. >> right. >> joining me now, "the washington post" ej deon, and huffington post, ryan grim. ej, there you have it, another story of hundreds of bullets, maybe 300 bullets. i listened to the sound of the bullets a number of times, it is uncountable, raining down on the watertown police officers and we don't know that high capacity magazines were involved, but the ability to deliver hundreds of bullets quickly was definitely something that the brothers were easily capable of doing. >> you know, this is a point you made on this show over and over. ...