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Very end. you saw last night and narnl at the beginning of the year, there were some lawmakers, republicans who thought that maybe a straight repeal package was where to go. part of the reason was that it was president-elect frum pnl and mark halperin, if has to ppgs that aren't going to be able to run for reelection, are the moderate republicans saying they slashed medicaid and 25 million people will be pushed off of heck whatever you talked to

Know, first of all, i think john weaver has a few points that are very well taken here. i don't think he really does have a hammer. but in addition to that, trump is, to be quite blunt about it, he is not regarded as somebody who is in any way shape, care, or form, a health care policy wonk or a policy wonk at all. about all he seems to know about health care is like many big employers, i think he would rather not have to personally deal with the hassle of getting insurance, and for that reasons he seems to have defaulted to single payer health care or socialized medicine. and i think that's p...

He doesn't have the hammer, but also he hasn't really been that engaged in health care policy in the formulation of this obamacare repeal package. so it's kind of hard to even measure whether he's proving to be a total success, a total failure, or just a gigantic nothing burger. he just kind of isn't really there to the degree that i think a lot of people would typically expect a president to be. >> john, i for one think presidential leadership in legislative affairs is the easiest thing in the world to exaggerate. >> overrated. >> meaning that, you know, you can be a master of the policy. and...

That's a fair point in both the house allege the senate. do you believe that next week, because it was this week now it's going to be next week. the president said hey we want to get it right. it doesn't have to happen by a particular date it seems like the freedom caucus has come on board. do you feel like enough moderates will come on board to get a repeal package passed? >> i do. so, here i think what's smart about what paul ryan has done is i'm not going to set a time line and push people into a vote they are not ready for. we had this mcarthur amendment people process it, think about it, ...

>> good to be here. thanks for having me on. abby: you heard about president trump yesterday about healthcare and how he was disappointed republicans couldn't get their act together. how do you respond to that? >> listen, i think we have to take a step back. is he disappointed at republicans or disappointed at democrats? you know you talk about this a lot on your show. we are trying to navigate these rules in the senate because you have the filibuster rule and democrats in the senate. part of this resist movement. they will stop donald trump at every cause. even when there is good ideas how we...