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today in april 83% of republicans approved of president trump. now 73% of republicans approve of the president. according to the cbs poll. now from john ossoff head quarters in atlanta is gar ek make. what s the feeling there? lawrence, the bottom just fell out in this room here. another network just called this race, and what little energy had been in the room a few minutes go had completely evaporated. it started to disappear about half an hour to 45 minutes go wh the votes from today started to come in and we saw ossoff elead start to slowly disappear. about 30 minutes go, ossoff s fiance came out and thanked volunteers and staff and started talking about small victories like volunteers signed up, voters in the district. important stuff, sure. but not the kind of thing that would rally this crowd. there will be plant plenty of time for smarter people than me to analyze what happened here but two obvious takeaways so far. but first, as fired up as democrats were in ....
but it s not yet clear if it has enough support to pass. so far five gop senators have come out against the bill as it is now, four because it doesn t go far enough in rolling back obamacare and one because it goes too far. now, just so that you re prepared, know that washington and the media are going to spend much of the next week obsessing over process, wloefr these five senators will come around to help give donald trump his first major legislative win. so it s important that while this is going on that we put this ups predented rush to pass a bill with no hearings, none, and literally within a few weeks into some perspective. the debate that senate republicans are having is not about health care, not about health care at all. you heard that yesterday on this show when we talked to a republican congressman not about health care but about taxes. that s because this bill, both the house and the senate versions, is about one thing how much the safety net can be gutte ....
lemon. is anybody out there surprised to hear president trump doesn t actually have tapes of his chats with james comey? anybody? anybody? buoler? don t think so. but was this a much bigger mistake than the president realizes? plus the man they re calling a human bruce springsteen steno. iron stash is running against paul ryan. and you d think bill cosby would keep quiet in his indecent assault trial. let s get started right to the tale of the apes. here is discusses cnn presidential hirltsen yans. he is the author of the rightful heritage. franklin d. roosevelt and land of america. david bergen and political commentator david swerdlick. thank you for coming on many david gergen. you first the president was on fox news tonight. let s listen. robert mueller do you think he should rekuz himself from this because he is good friends with james come withy, hired some attorneys part of hillary clinton s foundation given pollone to president obama and hillary clinton campaig ....
wins, saying alone among the candidates in his party, i absolutely will not cut medicaid, won t touch medicaid, not one dollar. nothing s going to happen to medicaid, and then and then, rachel, that president says, okay, let s cut it in a bigger way than anyone s ever dreamed of cutting it. what happens to that politician? well, what happens to the country first is that everybody gets very, very clear on exactly what medicaid is and what cutting $800 billion out of it would do to this country. everybody gets very familiar with that very fast, and then i think they start remembering out loud what they d been promise the in terms of its future health. and anywhere in that process does someone teach the president what medicaid is? what is teach? i don t know. i don t know what works now. i don t know. thank you, rachel. thank you, lawrence. well, tonight, we ll be joined by someone who is trying to make history by trying to do the impossible. by running against ....
all of these districts are districts they won t have to win in order of them to win the house of representatives but they are now districts in which republicans suddenly have to spend serious money to hang on and republicans never had to do that. and that s part of why these people who were chosen for these trump administration jobs, why they were available to be picked because their seats were seen as so safe, the republican party wouldn t have to spend anything in order to hold on to them. that certainly has been disproved. and no such thing as a safe seat any more. thanks, rachel. thanks, lawrence. that sixth district in georgia hasn t been rep zbantd democrat since we had a democratic president from georgia. most of georgia has embraced republican party since jimmy carter was president and the election in this district in november. republican won by 24 points. that s the race that s locked in this virtual tie right now. 24 points last time voters went to the p ....