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You got to kind of capitulate to get it done, i am putting a word in his mouth there. >> i think it's a bit of a cop out. there is no question about the fact that the democrats were saying if you are going to increase military spending you have to increase domestic spending but he also said what we really need to do is deal with entitlement. the fact of the matter is there is no interest in congress but in the majority in either the house of the senate, no interest in entitlement reform. remember donald trump campaign for president in 20 saying he wasn't going to touch medicaid. there is no in...

Easily defeated the trump endorsed candidate, and exit polls showed 57% of people who came out to vote disapprove of donald trump. in new jersey, voters elected a democrat to succeed chris christie who was the first republican governor to endorse the trump presidential campaign. in maine, voters defied their trump supporting governor, and voted for a ballot initiative to expand medicaid. in the virginia election, danica roane made history as the first transgender senator in the united states. she ran against him and won. the latest poll finds that 52% want democrats to control congress next ye...

Primal scream of the campaign, build the wall. let's listen to the trump promise on that. >> i will build a great, great wall on our southern border. and i will have mexico pay for that wall. >> yes! >> mark my words. >> ezra klein, the report card, does it look good on those two tests? >> no, it doesn't look good on any of his policy promises, this is something we have learned about trump. it's something people didn't realize about him coming in. everybody knew trump wasn't a policy details guy. there was a view that what he had were strong policy intuitions, he cared about the wall. he said ...

Medicaid, to slow down the increases into the future. when they start laying these things out saying that's not a doable deal or if they come back in and say, and by the way, we want the concept of obamacare to continue on and our message is is when you don't have any competition and you've run all the competition off, that's not going to work. so, look, eventually i really do believe that republicans and democrats will find ways to fine tune it, but we've got to change the direction of health care in this country. i wish this was not on a partisan basis. it is. we're recognizing it. we've got...

Parliamentary moves it requires. we're getting nothing done, my friends. we're getting nothing done. >> i guess, senator, call the democrats' bluff. as you know many democrats have said if you get out of this reconciliation process and say, look, at this point it's clear the best you guys can agree to is more of a reform of obamacare, not a full repeal and replace, which is where the democrats are, why not pull reconciliation and take john mccain's advice? >> because at this point we don't think that they're actually interested in providing us relief. and, look, we're talking with friends on t...