it's entirely possible they don't blame trump and they blame house speaker prine. as trump said, he did not want this to be called trump care. he wanted to call it something else and the name ryancare stuck so this may fall to the speaker of the house rather than the president. >> rose: doesn't the president need ryan for every other aspect of his agenda? >> he certainly does, butths important to remember ryan shares some of these goals. ryan december play would like to get tax reform done, it's something he was been talking about since i remember. they agree on that. there are some people who feel like repealing the affordable care act was kind of an adopted issue for president trump and that tax reform is more at the core of the principles that eran on and things he has believed in his business career. >> rose: tax reform and reform in regulations together. >> yes, and those are two things where they can find common ground. tax reform is hard. i was a tax reporter for many, many years and i think people discount exactly how complicated it can be. there's a reason

bill to repeal and replace obamacare, but at the last minute the president told speaker of the house prine mike allen joins me from washington where he has been tracking the story. co-founder of news service axios and editor of the axios newsletter. let's begin with what some night say is an assessment, others an autopsy. what happened? >> charlie, we had epic miscalculations at both ends of pennsylvania avenue from beginning to end. so president trump beginning. we're seeing in the "new york times" that he decided to go ahead with healthcare, to plunge ahead with healthcare rather than taking up the press' easier win of tax reform almost on a lark, a very quick conversation where he didn't really delve into the pluses and minuses. at the other end of the pennsylvania avenue, at the beginning, speaker ryan looking at this more from a matter of policy than politics, charlie, this came down to pure, raw politics. person to person. miscalculation at the end -- and that's the big takeaway from today, charlie, is that now everything else will be harder. the tax reform and eventually infrastruct

prine, an earnest policy wonk, showed himself to be an inept political leader.couldn't even lean on the safest seats in his own party's caucus. those are ones you say these are people who are not a threat to reelection, i need you, you have to vote. he couldn't even do that. donald trump showed he has no understanding of the legislative process. h he dealt in adjectives -- wonderful, fantastic, glorious -- he had no idea what was in it. the art of the deal just collapsed and this is a man who gave away the store to the freedom caucus and got nothing in return, didn't even get their votes. on no count was this anything but a disaster politically and public policy and just for the country. >> woodruff: how do you explain it, david? >> well, all those things contributed, trump's bad negotiation, lack of experience, factionism. people talk about divisions within the party, but the core of the problem was philosophical and the problem was with the substance of the bill. we live in a country where there's widening inequality and a lot of people are very insecure. the

>> prine has full confidence congressman nunes can conduct a fair and credible investigation -- ( audienceif paul ryan has confidence in something, it will never go any , where we learned this week. we'll be right back! ( cheers and applause ) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i'm aall i need is a comfortable chair. and kfc's delicious new georgia gold. available in extra crispy chicken, a chicken little sandwich or extra crispy tenders. mmm... it's finger lickin' gold. brewed to be everything you want in a beereer. and less. miller lite. hold true. kids, juicy fruitmmmm with longer-lasting flavor? mmm (zipping) (zipping) (rattling) longer-lasting juicy fruit. so sweet you can't help but chew and chew. [music plays throughout] [music fades out] >> trevor: welcome back to "the daily show"! my guest tonight is a pulitzer prize-winning "new york times" reporter and author of the new book, "madame president: the extraordinary journey of ellen johnson sirleaf." please welcome helene cooper, everybody! ( cheers and applause ) thank you so much for being here. >> thank you. >> trevor: first of all, let's get into the wh

>> prine has full confidence congressman nunes can conduct a fair and credible investigation -- ( audience confidence in nunes! if paul ryan has confidence in something, it will never go any , where we learned this week. we'll be right back! ( cheers and applause ) nobody does unlimited like t-mobile. while the other guys gouge for unlimited data... t-mobile one save you hundreds a year. right now get two lines of data for $100 dollars. with taxes and fees included. that's right 2 unlimited lines for just $100 bucks. all in. and right now, pair up those two lines with two free samsung galaxy s7 when you switch. yup! free. so switch and save hundreds when you go all unlimited with t-mobile. >> trevor: welcome back to "the daily show"! my guest tonight is a pulitzer prize-winning "new york times" reporter and author of the new book, "madame president: the extraordinary journey of ellen johnson sirleaf." please welcome helene cooper, everybody! ( cheers and applause ) thank you so much for being here. >> thank you. >> trevor: first of all, let's get into the why. i mean, it seems pretty obvio

get this close you're going to pass it and the stakes are so big, this is a devastating defeat for prinenald trump but also for the republican party. >> rose: we continue with mike allen of axios. >> that's the take away from today, charlie is now everything else will be harder. the tax reform and eventually infrastructure and whatever they want to do on immigration, just among republicans there is not trust, there is not appetite, there n