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Do so and republicans who are uncomfortable more pressure not to make deals with him and that shifted into the democratic basket and another lever they can use. >> someone unexpected. you go back to one of the questions. would the democrats stick together and emulate what they did when obama took the presidency. if you say it's monday, we say it's tuesday. >> back to what you said about the tax reform, there is a political element to what they are doing in terms of -- they know that the polling for the republican tax legislation is nearing catastrophically low standards set by the obamacare re...

They understand the majority is at risk. the president is not on the ballot and has shown no affinity for being the leader of the republican party and making the choices that it's necessary to take one for the team. we are in this remarkable moment going forward. we are watching the developments earlier and we are about to end the first year of the trump presidency. any american history going back a long time tells us the most important year in terms of getting things done is year number one. they will not repeal and replace obamacare. we will see if they can cut taxes and even if they do, it ...

Say why did you have to go and do that for? >> he made hard things harder as opposed to being a businessman and how we get together and do deals. >> they know who will be blamed for this. mitch mcconnell said they own the shut down brand and they know it will come to him. mcconnell promised no shutdowns while republicans control congress. they got bailed out of the last shut down in 2013 by the terrible roll out of the obamacare program. these things are deadly politically. there is nothing down the road that will save them from this if they do go ahead with it. that's my take. >> to your poin...

Reform to pass a lot, really no matter what. and it is willing, as we learned over the weekend, to ditch a repeal of the obamacare individual mandate to make it happen. our chief business correspondent, christine romans, is now with us. i was surprised when i heard mulvaney say this. >> yeah, he's a budget director. and, look, we know that the gop wants to kill obamacare. i mean, has tried and failed to get rid of obamacare. and when this repeal of the individual mandate made its way into the senate bill, some folks thought tactically that might be a brilliant way to do two things that the gop...

Was first thing to do. no question they were doing it. despite their 2 1/2 week early running start at that goal that they all agreed on, they didn't have that bill ready for inauguration day. it would be two months, march, before the republican-controlled house had a bill to repeal obamacare, ready to vote and last minute yanked off the floor. 46 seat majority in the house and couldn't come up with votes. sat on it another two months. again in may, passed this by margin of only four votes. maybe they should have taken that as sign. republican-controlled house barely passed that bill, response...