joining us, mark preston, aaron lewis, van jones, and alice stuart, a republican strategist who worked ted cruz during the election for a little bit. mark prestopreston, kevin mccar telling sunlen serfaty that he's feeling great. >> if he had the votes, he would be feeling excellent. that's his job. he told dana bash last night that he felt good about it. this is problematic for republicans. we talk about the inexperience of the white house and their inability to try to get votes on capitol hill. this is a very young congress right now. they came here on ideological terms. they don't feel invested. they haven't been through, you know, really, really big fights. if you're a republican, a lot of these folks didn't have the house, the senate, and the white house. they don't know how to win right now. in many ways this vote today should have been cast by the white house in the republican leadership as the first of many votes. don't deal the president a losing hand on his first major legislative accomplishment, because you're going to have an opportunity to vote against it anyway if you don