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There was support among all of the service chiefs, they just wanted to dough a little more research to find out how transgender members were being treated. and in fact, secretary mattis put out a record saying i want to come back in december 2017 with my final assessment. and then the penalty gone tweets this out. so it caught the pentagon flat-footed. no one knew this was going to be tweeted out as a directive. and if i could say one more thing about mr. gorka's comment, he actually made something that is very insulting saying we are forcing these people into the service. i think what you fin...

Districts, this plan is unpopular, and i think adding to the nervousness of these moderates is essentially a fundamental recalculation of the politics that maybe after all, it's better if we just don't cast this vote. that is in contrast to the thinking for the past eight years. if we don't at least take a vote, we're going to be punished. the stats now that the plan is out, are not looking good, and i take you back to what pat toomey said which is they were caught flat footed. they didn't expect trump to win, and they had to cobble this thing together, and it's not popular even among their ba...

The president has been pushing for. i think it underscores one thing that we know, andrea, that the president, this administration, acknowledged they were caught off guard when they realized that they didn't have the votes to get the repeal and replace bill passed through the senate because remember, president trump was meeting at the white house, having dinner with senators who supported the bill. he was trying to hammer out a strategy to get the bill passed, but he wasn't meeting with those senators who were still undecided. so he was caught flat footed. i think his message today at this lun...

Last point there, john mccain issued a statement from his sick bed where he's recuperating from surgery, saying let's go to regular order, let's have hearings, let's have, you know, debate, let's work with democrats basically. and that's probably where they should have started in first place maybe, but for mccain to have someone issuing that or he issuing that, from where he is in arizona, recuperating, is very telling indeed. i want to go to kristen, though. what was the heads up to the white house crack legislative strategy team that lee and moran were going to defect after that dinner at th...

Saying that, you know, look, we acknowledge that actually, we never thought trump would even get elected. we were caught flat footed. we have just been basically opposing obamacare all this time, but we did not have time to put together a plan. let's go back to the drawing board. whether that looks like something that compromises with democrats or another pass at a republican plan, i'm just not sure it will ultimately make it through the senate. >> real quick, shannon says it's a fantasy that democrats will get on board with this. do you agree with it? >> i totally agree they will never get on...