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Didn't expect this type of blow back? >> we didn't lose the messaging war. the president is -- he has full authority and control over his decisions here and he made the right one. in fact, no, i wasn't caught flat fiteed at all. i just arrived from a day on the road with secretary tom price out discussing the opioid crisis in michigan and west virginia. and was happy to come out when the president asked us to do that. steve: yeah. >> i'm also very happy that other people like united states senators have been out there expressing their point of view on this matter and reminding people how their...

And a half to get this passed. there were a lot of mistakes made. what were two or three of the biggest mistakes here that president trump and ryan made? >> they didn't get any troops on board. the hospital associations, the doctors, seniors, they could have made some outreach to the groups. they did not make that effort. secondly, that cbo score, i think, was very bad in the end. because nobody really knows what this does, but the cbo may or may not be right. i think you can argue. but their judge is the empire. >> on coverage numbers, okay, fine, say it's even half, it's still a bad number. ...

Bill. what's interesting, it kind of falls in line with what eric cantor has been trying to do over the last year or so. which is remake the gop image from not being boogie man who hate children and different groups but who are caring. on its title, especially because the bill is named after this girl who passed away from cancer, the parents were involved. it's something that it looks good for them publicly. the public doesn't care about the minutia. this bill isn't going to go anywhere in the senate. the point here is i would argue the republicans win the messaging war. it looks good for them...

Washington completely obsessed by it for another year or two. >> do you agree with that. >> i do. you hear a lot about democrats saying we lost the messaging war. i think that's really missing the big picture which is they lost the priority war which was voters came into the election in 2008 saying jobs are the number one issue, the economy is the number one issue and saw congress focus on something they didn't see as a number one issue forover a year, fight about it, they don't see there's an immediate benefit for them and i think when we talk about creating the environment, it baked the cake...

To revisit it and don't want to see washington completely obsessed by it for another year or two. >> do you agree with that? >> i do. you hear the democrats saying we lost the messaging war. that's missing the big picture, which is they lost the priority war. voters came mo the election in 2008 saying jobs are in number one issue. the economy is the number one issue. they saw congress focus on something they didn't see as the number one issue for over a year, fight about it, get in a polarized environment about it. they see the immediate benefit them. it bakes the cake for how voters. >> the m...