Page 19 - Partisan Divide News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

>> senator schumer, thank you. senator wyden,it is clear -- >> senate democratic leaders voicing their opposition to the new republican health care bill. chuck schumer, democratic leader, now patty murray and ron wyden there, making their case that the house bill is mean. chuck schumer using a pen to write a note. there are higher tech ways to do that, to say that it is even meaner. while we were listening, dana, you made the point that the republicans crafted the bill in secret. 142 pages that most of the members had not seen any of it until 11:00 this morning. they're in their offices readin...

Republican kind of -- a piece of legislation that is full of republican ideals and philosophies. >> it's taking basically the philosophical core of the obama plan and preserving that. it's not -- it didn't ever fully work financially, but it could have maybe with some fixes gone down that rhine. when you get rid -- that line. when you get rid of the mandates, you can't cover as much as you wanted to cover in the system. when are you peeling back on the money that's there for medicaid, you're not catching people falling out of the system. it doesn't hang together the way it did around that cent...

People like tim ryan, are they in the position, do they have the folks behind them so they can rise through the ranks and become in the leadership? >> listen -- listen again just as a student of politics, you think she's been at this a long time, maybe a survey, she doesn't get into it. listen to nancy pelosi addressing the question of, well, you have been around a long time. what about the next generation? >> we're paving a way for a new generation of leadership. and again, i respect any opinion that members have, but my decision about how long i stay is not up to them. >> ouch. a little bit ...

Bill. both key votes when it comes to abortion i-- abortion issues. there's a defund of planned parenthood. rand paul has serious concerns about the tax credit piece of the bill, the subsidy of the bill. he echoed the concerns after the briefing. you always have to keep an eye on the conservatives. why does ted cruz and mike lee come down on the regulatory issue? we don't have immediate answers. as you note, it's clear they don't have 50 votes yet. there's more work to do. the question becomes do they do that work via amendment, in a manager's amendment, or do they browbeat everybody to get th...

Presidency, jimmy, don't let the door hit you where the electoral college slplits you. >> now to a segment that only steve kornacki can make sense of, he'll explain to you how the public is so divided along partisan lines when it comes to the fbi director, that they simultaneously cheer and boo news of his firing. steve? >> i just -- i'm so glad we played that clip, nicolle, it's the ultimate demonstration of how tangled the politics of jim comey are and also how tribal politics are. this is stephen colbert, a show the resistance watches. he says donald trump just fired james comey, and the cr...