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Party and is also you're going to find some sort of receptive audience among folks that have been voting republican in alabama? >> well, you talk about the issues they care about. doug jones is all about #kitchentable. he was talking about good jobs. he was talking about theú,jì(lc% that his dad was a steel , he understands blue collar work. he's talking about the fact that if obamacare gets repealed, i'm sure he doesn't call it obamacare, but if it gets repealed, that the access to that rural clinic is at risk. as you know, we talked a lot in virginia, the number one issue for voters in vir...

They don't pass this. the other thing is all of these individual republicans in washington trying to prove that it's not their fault personally that this didn't happen. so mitch mcconnell has to show he tried as hard as he could. so he has to -- i think they may vote on this thing, even though they know it's going to fail, because mitch doesn't want to be blamed, he wants the blame to lie with whoever votes no. there's a certain kabuki aspect of it there. i'm not sure -- now that they're not getting this done, i don't think they're going to repeal it in this congress. but i don't think it's do...

This is politically a horrible idea. it's a good way to kill tax reform by tying to it obamacare repeal. >> yes. >> but i think once we get to october 1st, people will forget there was a deadline and basically say, you promised, you have to try again, let's try doing it in next year's budget. i think the story may be with us another year with these periodic, episodic efforts to repeal. you get closer to the election, the politics of actually doing it just get worse and worse. >> michelle, speaking of the election. i am particularly obsessed with dean heller, the nevada senator, who is the only...

The senate ahouse and and presidency, it will be a problem to get the base to support them when the base matters so much. >> and dealing with that, here, don, just the political argument that democrats could take on is one of the wins, if you will, in the middle, that democrats can take here as to work first of all with the republicans and part of that is just on the private side, right, the private insurance side which clearly has some opportunities to be improved. >> that democrats have been asking to work with the republicans on fixing the problems and the affordable care act. but it cannot...

Communication strategy and outside legal team but at the end of the day you still have a president trump who will regularly and without thinking twice about it under cut his own senior staff and white house messaging, whether on twitter or in interviews with "the new york times" or washington post or on tv. so this is a white house that at the senior ranks does understand that the president could call in as many reinforcements as we wanted but at the end of the day, trump is going to be trump. >> thank you so much. thank you both very much. have a good saturday. >> thanks. >> thank you. what...