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It almost feels like he's surrendered. 2017 has worn down a lot of us. it doesn't look like he's happy about it. >> he didn't want to be the lone voice of opposition. you're right. there are other issues that he is digging in on and fighting on. we know he's been one of the president's most outspoken critics including questioning whether he was fit to serve in that office. on this one, he seems to be throwing up his hands. >> i don't think you can say, not a dime added to the deficit. everybody disagrees on the scoring but even the most favorable thing. >> there is no credible estimate other t...

>> there were retweets in the days prior to the campaign. the handle on that was tennesseegop, but it was the russian plant sending information about the hillary clinton out, and the senior staffers retweeted it, and we don't know if they knew that. >> i am not going to judge for a retweet, and it obviously is yet another choice by the president to detonate an issue that he doesn't need to be fighting on. if we reflect on everything we talked about on this panel and most of what has been talked about on television over the

Fighting on. we have a bill that can get to 50. >> so you say you're surprised by mccain's announcement he will vote no. he has been hinting at this. he has been very clear of what he is not comfortable with. he listed them. you pointed out one of them. you listed them in his announcement today. he said no cbo score. this is something that will impact the economy in a huge way. no bipartisanship. it is not going through the normal process. in light of his arguments he makes here his list of reason ls does he make a fair argument in your view? >> number one, there will be a cbo score. >> but be...

My reason. sometimes i made it harder to find common ground because of something harsh i said to a colleague. sometimes i wanted to win more for the sake of winning than to achieve a contested policy. >> hooug hewitt, you could hear a pin drop in that room. clearly people were listening, but did they hear what he had to say, do you think? >> i don't think they're going to agree with a lot of what the senator said, he enjoys enormous respect in the body, he is a great american, everyone pauses to say what a lion coming back and fighting on, wants to run that national defense authorization on th...

Republicans together to sign a letter to say, hey, the president should do this. but i don't think, again, this is necessarily the front that republicans in congress want to be fighting on. i think they are more focused on all of these -- i mean, look, i got the sense when they left town last week, they were ready to be out of the spotlight of the train wrecks for a week. they went home because this has just been, again it's -- everybody at this point thinks it's all about russia all the time. you're reaching a potential tipping point with republicans in congress who, at some point, will say w...