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Sniveling. she wrote half the president's tweets show utter weakness. they are shrill little cries usually just after dawn. joshua ziets this week described the white house this way. it's a team of rivals but for morons. general kelly has never tried to manage a team of morons before. in "the washington post" today, eugene robinson captured the essence of the trump presidency, that general kelly will now be asked to management gene wrote, the court of mad king donald is not a presidency. it is an affliction, one that saps the life out of our democratic institutions, and it must be fiercely res...

So john mccain did what he always does. he stepped forward, took responsibility that probably other people needed to bear in addition to him. >> peter wehner, how do you read the politics of this in the senate? do you think there was actually more opposition to it within the republican party than showed up in the vote count? >> i do because it was a historically unpopular bill being pushed by a historically unpopular president. the bill itself is incoherent. the rallying cry at the end was vote for this bill because it won't become law, which is insane. and i think that a lot of republicans we...

There who basically started saying to these senators right after the inauguration, you better take a look at what this legislation is because you're going to hear from us. >> yeah. using their bodies and their stories to draw attention to the help that the aca has given them, particularly through medicaid expansion. you know, it was incredibly devious thing that the republicans did to put medicaid on the table at all in what they were calling the repeal of obamacare because, you know, medicaid wasn't something that people were clamoring to get rid of except if you were paul ryan at a keg party...

Here's what the president had to say about the health care defeat today. >> i said from the beginning, let obamacare implode and then do it. i turned out to be right. let obamacare implode. [ applause ] >> every one of those police officers in new york applauding the president's attack on obamacare today enjoys government-funded health insurance for themselves and for their families at very considerable cost to taxpayers, including taxpayers who cannot afford health insurance for themselves. joining us now, ana marie cox, a contributor to "the new york times" magazine and the host of the podca...

Reorganize the white house, but to organize it since it's never been organized and to control the flow of information and control the people into the oval office and act like a chief of staff. you know, my bets are that he probably won't get it, but we'll see. >> peter, am i being premature in betting everything i have that he won't get that authority in the white house? >> no, i'd lay that bet as well. look, we've seen donald trump enough to know that he's fundamentally uncontrollable and uncontainable, and it doesn't matter if james baker was chief of staff. the personnel at the white house ...