thad cochran is not one of the names listed as already declared no votes. it only takes three. i thought what was most interesting at the very moment he was saying this on stage yesterday in indiana, that he has the votes, precisely the same moment, lindsey graham, sponsor of the supporters, said we don't have the votes to get the bill passed right now. >> you could call it that. >>> back to puerto rico. the mayor of san juan, puerto rico. so wonderful to fuful to talk ts morning. what is your reaction to the news the jones act will be suspended started immediately. >>> first of all, i think it is an act of justice. i tweeted yesterday that not repealing the jones act would be an act of injustice. the jones act makes everything we receive in puerto rico between 30-33% higher. the cost of construction will be lower. the cost of acquiring goods will be lowered. we are grateful that our cries for justice were heard and that the president did the right thing and stood in the right side of history. >> you called for it and now it's happened. i know you must be very grateful. do you

thad cochran has had some medical issues, but he's tweeting saying i'm not in the hospital.erating in mississippi. looking forward to returning to work soon. that part is not true. if they had the votes, they would vote. let's discuss. joining us is doug high and simone sanders. doug, the president keeps putting thad cochran in the hospital and keeps insisting they have the votes to pass healthcare which they don't. what's going on here? >> they still can't admit the serious problem force repes >> they still can't admit the serious problem force repe for replace and how difficult it is. our base still wants to we peel and replace, we struggled for years on repeal and replace. in 2014 when he was working as a staff member on repeal and replace. for six months we couldn't put the meeting phase.or get past republicanson't want to let this issue go. we'll keep talking about it because it's an existential problem for republicans. >> a quick follow-up because you are a republican and were one of the chiefs in terms of communications for the republican party, the president says wit

the senator who trump was referring to was mississippi republican thad cochran and after trump's interview hates being wrong but when reporters told trump that cochran wasn't in the hospital, trump was like okay, we'll see. in other trump news, family news, it was revealed today that the reason donald trump, jr. gave up his secret service detail earlier this month was to go moose hunting in canada. yeah. he just, he just ditched his secret service and disappeared into the wilderness of canada. to which melania said wait, you can do that? (laughter) apparently he went hunting with his friends am but you should know donald, jr. doesn't shoot the moose, his friends just use him as moose bait. i think we've got a (laughter) i'm kidding. donald, jr. actually has a very unusual hunting technique. what he does, he goes up to the moose, explains his father's vision for america and then the moose kills it self. (laughter) (applause) now "the new york times" is reporting they did bag a moose and donald, jr. says he plans to display its head on the wall right next to his third place trophy for favori

the thad cochran situation, the i issue, legislation banned cross voting primaries.emocrats wanted to vote in this runoff, they simply can't under the law. the other thing, too, to consider. neither strange nor moore are even trying to go to the center or reach out to democratic voters. really give those folks any reason to cast a ballot september 26th, even if they could. this is a very red meat, right wing republican right now. >> let me ask this question -- is this campaign over november 26th or doubt in december? does doug jones the democrat have a shot? michael, start with you. an outsider, any evidence this could be legitimate? >> i didn't talk to a lot of democrats when down there. it's been decades since they sent a democratic senator. it's gotten more red. moore elected state-wide a couple times as judge before. i think democrats will make a try and it will be determined based on polls early on, but an outside chance. >> brian, where are you on this? >> i -- what i'm seeing with democrats in the state is, they're enthusiastic about jones. they'll have enthus

thad cochran is not in the hospital. in the bigger picture, working with chuck and nancy, i actually think trump is aware that this is the most viable path forward for him to resuscitate his approval ratings. before coming on set, i was looking at these new polls about the daca deal, and it's outstanding how -- it's amazing how they poll well when he's talking about doing a deal with schumer and pelosi to protect d.r.e.a.m.ers. i have to think people in the white house see these numbers, see that there is a viable path to resuscitate his approval ratings, and it does come through forging these compromises. >> just the vote but it's not going to help him with his voters. here's a question for donald trp. will he do a deal with democrats on daca, on the immigration bill he denounced, the proposal he denounced during the campaign and then turn around and bolster the health care act. >> i talked to them on the hill about the same thing, how he can do a deal on daca but not the affordable care account. they told me that's one

we did a little digging, the person in hospital he's referring to is mississippi senator 's thad cochran. many people didn't know he was in the hospital. he seems to have something of a plan. we should point out the last one didn't work out very well. >> heather: interesting that we're talking about bipartisan approach. i have to say, john roberts, we did not know you are a fan of the princess bride. >> the princess bride and "star wars," metaphors for everything. the "star wars" metaphor for steve bannon, like obi-wan kenobi said, if you strike me down, i will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine. it seems bannon is living up to that. >> heather: you could go on and on, think you so much, john. >> jon: will have to work some princess bride quotes in my reporting from now on. president trump is congratulating roy moore on his republik in victory victory friday night, i'm sorry victory last night. i'm not sure where i got that. roy moore beat luther strange by ten points. strange thing to the president for his endorsement while roy moore says he supports president trump. >>

hour or so after the president repeatedly claimed that a senator was in the hospital, senator thad cochran, who according to his hospital had recently been tweeted for a urological issue tweeted thanks for your well wishes. i am not in the hospital but i look forward to returning to work soon. trump was wrong to declare nine times today to declare that a republican vote was hospitalized. in an event in indianapolis this afternoon, the president stopped repeating one of the blatant false hoods. >> we have the votes on graham-cassidy. but with the rules of reconciliation, we're up against a deadline of friday. two days. that's just two days. and yes vote senator, we have a wonderful senate, great great senator who is a yes vote but he's home recovering from a pretty tough situation. ch home . i like how you shop for loans the same way you shop for flights online. i didn't realize at lendingtree you can save money on almost any sort of loan. i consolidated my credit card debt with a personal loan. i found a new credit card with 0% interest for 15 months. you just shop, compare, and save. and

. >> the senate appropriations committee thad cochran and rosa delauro questioned these reductions. >> i am concerned about our challenge that we have to deal with. the reality of the budget process with the budget resolution in terms of authorization to appropriate funds, we have children ready to be educated throughout our state and everybody's state, and we need to train teachers and support the training of teachers. so, there are federal programs that are legitimate. they need to be on the front burner for the support and strengthening of our federal programs that help is teaching our children. i guess i commit this from a biased point of view and i plead guilty. i had a grandmother who was a wonderful elementary school teacher. my father was the county superintendent of the largest public school district in the state of mississippi. my mother was a math teacher in timbuktu. my brother tagging along with my father for graduate work for my parents. we would get into classrooms and act like we were students, thinking we were just as smart as some of the students were. the point is,

the president says congress fell short because of republican senator thad cochran's absence. >> we have the votes to get it done. you can't do it when somebody is in the hospital. >> reporter: the senator tweeting he is not hospitalized but recovering from a medical ailment. all of this as several controversies consume the white house. facing questions about the response to puerto rico and the virgin islands. as three of the president's cabinet secretaries are under fire for spending taxpayer dollars on expensive flights. a white house official says price's job is safe for now. and the president continues to sound off on the nfl not doing anything to stop players who kneel during the national anthem. >> in my opinion, the nfl has to change. or you know what's going to happen, that business is going to go to hell. >> reporter: president trump also has a number of meetings today on the schedule, including one with the acting homeland security secretary. puerto rico likely to be top of the list in that conversation. senator lindsey graham of south carolina expects to sit down with presiden

. >> he's referring to senator thad cochran. he tweeted earlier a yes, vote. keep in mind senator cochran is not hospitalized and the president seemed to acknowledge that. as for the rest, well, no. just no. you can be for or against obamacare or gram cassidy but there's not two sides to arrhythmia tick. the bill needed 50 votes. if they had enough votes, a vote would have been held, it was not. at the very moment president trump said what he said, co-responser lindsay gram put out a statement that read while we currently don't have the votes i'm not giving up and neither is the president. more on his reaction to healthcare situation. cnn's phil mattingly join us from the capital. phil if they had the vote they would have won't the vote right ? >> yes. there's one kind of tried and true clear reality, when you have the votes you put something on the floor and vote on it. it wasn't going to take multiple days to get this on the floor. they made very clear, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, lindsay gram, the coauthors of this bill as of yesterday they did

stick with the president was referring to mississippi senator thad cochran who had been in the hospital but is home recuperating. president trump says he can't cobble together enough votes by the reconciliation deadline of friday but he will try again in the new year. >> we are going to do it in january or february. as you know, we have the votes but we can't go longer than friday. stick with the president revealed he will likely sign an executive order next week to allow insurance companies sell health care policies across state lines. that would fulfill a major campaign promise and something republicans have pledged for years. the president's health secretary may never see the changes implemented. tom price is on thin ice after it was revealed he spent more than $400,000 on private planes. president trump today said he's not happy about it and he let price know it. as for price's job. >> i'm going to see. i'm looking at that very closely. i'm not happy with it. i will tell you are not happy with it. >> are you firing him? >> would you fire him? >> we will see, the president had the lo

the senator whose name he couldn't come up with is thad cochran of mississippi.ho moments after that comment tweeted, thanks for the well wishes, i'm not hospitalized. [ laughter ] i'm recuperating at home in mississippi and look forward to returning to work soon. there was no senator in the hospital. even if he was there was still at least three other republicans against the bill which means graham-cassidy wouldn't have passed whether he was in the hospital. to recap, mr. president, there was no senator in the hospital, you didn't have the votes, is bill didn't pass and you're bad at math, okay? [ cheers and applause ] this is funny. jared kushner, who of course is trump's adviser/son-in-law, someone looked into this, noticed jared is registered to vote in the state of new york. and you see as gender female, as a woman. this is his official voter registration card. gender, female. party affiliation is none declared. that's right. he's not a republican or democrat. he's just an independent woman. [ laughter ] [ applause ] he's registered as a woman in new york an

hour or so after the president repeatedly claimed that a senator was in the hospital, senator thad cochrancording to his hospital had recently been tweeted for a ur logical issue tweeted thanks for your well wishes. i am not in the hospital but i look forward to returning to work soon. trump was wrong to declare nine times today to declare that a republican vote was hospital lieszed. in an event in indianapolis this afternoon, the president stopped repeating one of the blatant false hoods. >> we have the votes on graham-caddgraham graham-cassidy. but with the rules of reconciliati reconciliation, we're up against a deadline of friday. two days. that's just two days. and yes vote senator, we have a wonderful senate, great great senator who is a yes vote but he's home recovering from a pretty tough situation. rad. you loved brad. and then you totaled him. you two had been through everything together. two boyfriends, three jobs... you're like nothing can replace brad. then liberty mutual calls... and you break into your happy dance. if you sign up for better car replacement™, we'll pay for a

roger wicker, they tried this against thad cochran in miss. you look at all these races. we're going to get to the conversations about the collapse of obamacare. when you're in this quick sand environment and not sure what's happening in your own party, how do you get things done. >> it's become very clear to mitch mcconnell and president trump the republican party right now is very difficult to govern. it's fascinating that the president has been tweeting angrily about this filibuster rule except that was not an issue in the latest obamacare fight. the problem was not that republicans couldn't get 60 votes on a health care plan. the problem was they couldn't even get 50 votes on a promise they have been making for many, many years. one thing to point out about mcconnell and why this is so tough for him, in the next couple of months, he has to decide is he actually going to spend money to boost roy moore? is he going to actually talk to him and campaign for him when there's already so much bad blood there because he went all out. >> rand paul is an example he will. he opp

reporters later figured out that trump might have been referring to mississippi senator, thad cochran not in the hospital, but was at home dealing with a health issue. after trump's comments, cochran was forced to release a statement assuring people he was okay. [ laughter ] "thanks for the well wishes. i'm not hospitalized, but am recuperating at home in mississippi and look forward to returning to work soon." this is how bad things are now. the president spreads so many insane rumors senators have to issue statements letting everyone know they're okay. [ laughter ] this is the first presidency where you have to "check in safe" on facebook. [ laughter and applause ] it's only a matter of time before rand paul has to tweet, "thanks for the support. contrary to the president's comments, i did not fall down a well and get trapped for days and have not been forced to eat rats to stay alive. [ laughter ] but i do believe he was being honest when he said he was psyched about it." in addition to its massive unpopularity, trump's lack of familiarity with his own health care bill, is partiall

thad cochran almost got knocked off a few years ago.gainst him looked the result last night saying i'm looking at 2018. >> riding in on a horse was brilliant. >> steve kornacki is like encyclopedia brown. >> we should always have him on our show. >> he knows things i haven't even thought of. >> i think the viewers would think we're smarter because he's so smart. >> i know one area and i'm an idiot outside of that. >> thank you, steve kornacki. >> i would like to point out he's never seen the movie "grease" and i can sing every song. >>> stand by, everybody. we're going to have a live report from puerto rico. maria is now still, you know, its damage is still there and it's becoming very hard to get the necessary repairs there. >> we're going to dig into the jones act when we come back. a 97-year-old congressional act preventing relief right now. wonder who controls it? those strong lobbies. kevin, meet your father. kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin trusted advice for life. kevin, how's your mom? life well planne

the senator we believe he's referring to is thad cochran of mississippi. his office told us earlier today, wolf, that he is not in the hospital but recovering from some procedures he had. but the reality here is the votes were not there. we did not hear the president address that specifically. but that executive order next week saying he would sign what he called a major executive order allowing people to buy insurance across state lines. he has long talked about this as an idea. he wanted this had to be part of a health care bill but that is something that was not able to be in it because of how they were trying to do it in in the reconciliation process in this year's budget. if he does sign that next week, that would be significant but does not get the republican party to its stated goal of repealing and replacing the affordable care act. >> something rand paul said he couldn't vote for the legislation that didn't even come up for a vote this week. he really was pushing forward pushing for among other republicans, as well with, the ability for americans

thad cochran. home in mississippi. so not able to be in washington u. brian: i don't understand, pete, they didn't even have 50 votes. so thad cochran could have been running a triathlon. they don't have the numbers in the senate. pete: yeah. i think he is moving on to an issue that he feels like republicans can unite around in the hopes this wins brings the opportunity for another. of course as he has often done talks about the filibuster rule and how that's problematic. abby: also, pete, working with democrats. the classic art of the deal. he said, look, if it comes to getting a deal done we will do what we have to do even if that means getting democrats on board with healthcare and now with tax reform. >> that question came on the heels of the reports that the reports he could be signing an executive order that allows states to -- us to buy healthcare across state lines which has long been a free market aspect how you solve this. a deal coupled with that. i pressed him on does it have to be repe

to get healthcare done he noted a senator that was in the hospital he was likely referring to thad cochran no longer in the hospital, but in mississippi recuperating he said he would negotiate potential block grants with the democrats. though it would early be in to 1 2010 he talked about wanting to start at 15% corporate tax rate to get to 20. he made the comment about the nfl, you heard at the end that basically you cannot allow people to disrespect the flag or their business will go to hell >> with us on "power lunch" is fedex chairman fred smith. he says simplifying the tax code will help create growth. great to have you with us. are you optimistic that that tax reform will go through given some of the difficulties republicans have had getting their agenda through >> i am. i'm optimistic because it's different from healthcare. there's broad consensus on the democratic and the republican side of the house that our tax code is not an effective one our two biggest competitors are u.p.s., and dhl. our effective tax rate is 34%. >> your effective. >> that's our rate >> after deductions. 34%

so the senator whose name he couldn't come up with is thad cochran of mississippi moments after thatnt who tweeted, thanks for the well wishes. i'm not hospitalized. i'm recuperating in mississippi, i'm looking forward to comeing soon. there was no senator in the hospital. he didn't have the votes t. bill didn't pass, and you are bad at math. okay. >> isn't that something? >> it's amazing. >> poor thad. >> amazing to make that up. it wouldn't have mattered, if the imaginary senator in the hospital he still wouldn't have the votes. >> i am not a one trick pony. he's a loon. and he's in charge. it's scary. >> that is a figment of his imagination. he made that up. >> it's not okay. you don't blurt out complete lies right and left and think that this person is okay to be the leader of our country and republicans, are you so busy worried about yourself, you walk the plank for this eye. this is what you got. >> my god. >> why? >> like a true cronkite moment. i never heard her talk like this. >> no, i'm serious. >> i never heard you talk like this before. >> this is not okay. >> how many pe

i wonder if this is going to be a little bit like the mississippi primary with that side thad cochranention damage he might have done in the closing day strange was at the rally on friday night. does what trump does. he acknowledging the polls that have more ahead. he says i might have made a mistake. that's this devastating ad the moore folks have run of trump saying over and over. they have sent a message and you heard bannon put it there. trump's heart isn't in this one. >> roy moore, he's not friend of mcconnells or the republican party in the united states. >> this is a dread scenario if you're mitch mcconnell. if you're mitch mcconnell you want luther strange. that's why they've been pushing for strange. moore is the exact -- here's a perfect example. what are they trying to do in the senate. graham-cassidy. luther strange was a vote for graham-cassidy. donald trump at the rally. didn't need to make a case for it. strange just said i'm with you if you need my vote. roy moore said he would be against it. that's the kind of senator mitch mcconnell is going to get. >> say roy moore