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Clear state of play greeted guests of a wedding saturday at bedminster's clubhouse, all this time on the course -- >> president trump for the birdie. >> reporter: head scratching considering trump constantly hammered president obama for golfing. >> everything is executive order. because he doesn't have enough time because he's playing so much golf. i'm going to be working for you. i'm not going to have time to play golf. he played more golf than tiger woods. i love golf. i'm not going to be playing much golf. believe me, if i win this i'm not going to be playing much golf. >> reporter: at th...

Guests of a wedding saturday at bedminister's clubhouse, all this time on the course -- >> president trump for the birdie. >> reporter: head scratching considering trump constantly hammered president obama for golfing. >> everything is executive order because he doesn't have enough time because he's playing so much golf. i'm going to be working for you. i'm not going to have time to go play golf. he played more golf last year than tiger woods. i love golf i think it's one of the greats but i don't avery time. i'm not going to be playing much golf if i win this. >> reporter: at this point in hi...

From a political perspective, what kind of damage do you think has been done. is this head scratching to you, the way this has been unfurled? >> it's all political damage. the problem is it destroys the credibility of destroys the cre of the administration. an administration must have credibility if they want to get anything done, particularly legislatively. i'm convinced the russians did this, they used a cutout, it's an intermediary. what concerns me is this may to the be the only incidence in which they've done that. when you have donald trump constantly defending putin, who is a hostile en...

Murkowski, it gives them a very clear out here. so you don't get the benefit of the sort of good news of the cbo report and the bad news of the cbo report really impacts the people you need the most to get the picture. >> i'm not sure the people on the right are going to be that much, either. >> right, they feel it goes too far even now. >> and it's hard to find the silver lining in this because you can go to a voter who can say they've been bashing the affordable care act for seven years, and after seven years, this is the only plan they can come up with, the one the president of the united s...

Never going to happen. to a certain extent this is a classic kind of strategic move to say hey, we really need to finish this really soon with the reality being that if they blow through this deadline maybe they'll at least get it done by august. because if they set the august rece recess deadline, who knows. it could keep going and going. if you're mitch mcconnell you want to be able to say you did something on health care, it's better than doing nothing. you've been promising americans if seven, eight years that you're going to repeal the affordable care act. i think the imperative is very m...