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david: brad blakeman is rejoining us for this. his to steve forbes talking about liz warren and her language, this is just a week after the shooting of scalise everybody said we'll dial back. media came out with all these speeches about how you know, we have to calm down the rhetoric and everything. what is going on? >> what is going on, you have a republican in name only appearing on msnbc and basically she is a shill for their line of attack up against the president. the best thing they can do is put a republican chiron under her name and act if she speaks for republicans. i can assure you she does not. republicans are not cozying up p to the president. we support the president. he is president of the united states. anybody who suggests and uses that type of wording that suicide bomber akin to the president is disgrace and should not be on any media program. david: you can criticize what the president does. we have very often on fox despite all the rhetoric against us, you can criticize what he does without using language. >> tha

brad blakeman, thank you. lauren: some traders yesterday that the decision by the senate republican to put a vote on the bill to replace obamacare as concerns about the president's agenda of tax reform infrastructure spending. senior economist mark wagner joining us now to discuss the market's reaction. what's your take on what happened today? >> there is a lot going on yesterday. certainly when they pulled the health care boat we could see the market selloff. a lot of the medical products, companies create and part of repealing obamacare it's with the way with attacks on medical products. that certainly was played out by the market. we also have cyberattacks. i don't think anybody would want to go into the close overexposed. >> this is the selloff was kind of twofold with health care was also the fire attack as well. >> folks just to tell how much were cyberattacks were going to get, whether we would find out later that the geographic reach was a little bit longer. i think the general feeling is health care i

. >> jon: julian epstein, and brad blakeman.ou know summing about questioning people in these situations, what would your question before jeff sessions? >> i think the overarching question is -- and watergate, the question is what to the president know and when did he know it? here the question is why does this administration keep trying to impede the investigation? we had the comey firing now which a lot of people think is a classic obstruction of justice. we have constant efforts, constant statements that are false about their contacts with the russians. when houck suggestions we now have suggestions about the firing of mueller. he clearly said he would recuse himself from the russian investigation as a result of those false statements and results of those contacts, and then he was engaged in what many people think is the obstruction issue which is the firing of comey and how does he explain that after he recused himself? >> jon: and fairness to the now attorney general, he answered a long and rambling question from senator al

brad blakeman coming democratic strategist who served in the white house. i'll matter is a strategist. thanks for joining me. i appreciate it. i'll come to you and i had this conversation. i want to start with you because we saw the president tweets and he mentioned health health carex cuts. at the same time, we see a lot of criticism, the fact that it is being drafted in secrecy and there has been no evidence in a bill coming forward any time soon. what are we going to see this week? >> well, it's really problematic in our perspective? even half of their caucus hasn't seen and it's going to be great for them in the room for rational budget office says it's going to take away 22 million people's health care. i don't know how that's going to help. elizabeth: want to bring in brad. we've been working on this for the past 70 years. >> uris is happening. a legislative process. the house passed a bill and now it doesn't mean the senate is going to take up their bill. they are going to form their own bill. once the senate bill is passed, there's a conference in b

brad blakeman, former adviser to george w. bush, goodo see you.conflict democrats were the first time in almost 40 years. here's the issue. 23 gop held house seats nationally for hillary clinton won the general election. is this being seen and treated as a bellwether? >> is depending how it goes. if the tape defeat, democrats will go crazy. perception becomes reality even for a short period. let's not dampen democrats are reminding them they are over three of special elections as trump has been elected president. louisiana, montana and kansas they have lost. the polls are very tiny. democrats pay $25 million. by the way, democrats couldn't find someone who lives in the district to run. if republicans win, obviously they are going to crawl all over the place that this is a harbinger of things to come and clear light years away politically from 20 team, which are the midterms. train to $60 spent on this race is unbelievable. the politics average polling shows ossof has a slight lead. he's at 49.6%. too close to call obviously. what spending do you t

joining us now to discuss all of this is brad blakeman, former assistant to george w.ienne, former director of strategic communications for hillary clinton and a democratic strategists. thank you both for joining us. >> thank you. >> adrienne, let's begin with you, what do you say about this over the president making the decision to pull out of the paris accord? >> well, first of all, i don't necessarily a lot of -- but i will say that i think this plays right into donald trump's plans. he wanted the media to oversight issue and oversensationallize it and paint at elitist issue. it's something that we should all be concerned about. kelly: brad, your thoughts. >> the present danger to the world and i wish the world can get together on issues like radical islam which is a direct threat to our country here and proliferation of nuclear weapons than climate change. president obama thought it was so important not only for the country but for the world, he would have called the procedure that would ratify by the senate. he didn't do that and president trump campaigned on repe

brad blakeman is a republican strategist and former adviser to president george w. bush. christy setzer is a democratic strategist and former iowa press secretary for al gore's presidential campaign. so first question to you, christy. do democrats expect there are tapes and would they buttress the democratic claims against the president? >> like james comey all say, lordy, i hope there are tapes. no, i don't think there are tapes. this is a way of president trump trying to intimidate james comey. it's apparently something that he's done a number of times in the past, whether it's to reporters or other people he's trying to intimidate by telling him he's recording their conversations. the reason that he's been putting it off when people ask him directly if there's tapes and saying i'll tell you lawyer, he knows he's backed into a corner. he put his press secretaries and his staff in a difficult position. obviously they can't say no, he made it up. they're struggling to say something that would make the president look credible here. >> jon: it all started with the tweet fro

here a brad blakeman, former president george w. bush a senior staffer.bling i've been hearing, you have to tell me if this is true. they have got own out there, when they go back home for the holiday, not just laying around the pool or even necessarily listening to what their constituents are saying and phone calls go on and wheeling dealing happen. what do you think of that theory? >> i think they're spot on. they're going home. they will hear from constituents. they're working phones and analyzing this bill. they haven't had much time to really digest it. we have 50 states, diverse as diverse can be. california different than rhode island, new york different than texas. they have all the special needs. a lot of senate and house bill returns power and responsibility on health care to the states. so they will have to meet with the governors as well. >> that is a really great point. i'm glad you brought that up. so much has to do with returning power and responsibility and the bucks, all those things to the state. they always say they want that but then s

brad blakeman and richard fowler. brad, he was firing on all cylinders. does he have a point? some of the criticism, morality is gone. i've never seen hatred like this before. democrats are imploding. >> eric is right and it's so sad. democrats from the time donald trump was elected president embarked on a vicious campaign of personal destruction and legislative obstruction. the way we get back at them as republicans is we legislature and pass bills, honor promises. if we do a good job we hit them again at the ballot box by being successful by winning elections and that's how we get back at democrats. we have power and we need to use it wisely and do what we said we were going to do. >> bill: richard, your reaction. >> history repeating itself. eight years ago almost to the day that mitch mcconnell said he has one goal to make sure president obama fails. the same thing eric is complaining about. no question wash -- washington is broken. it has nothing to do with democrats. the accessible healthcare act the house pass, can pass the senate today. they have 52 votes and the vice

brad blakeman and richard fowler, good day to both of you. debate often on this program and i like to think we end it with civility. brad, how long does it last? >> i think we're seeing unfortunately a truce, not a peace. i think the game tonight will be tremendous for americans to watch because in this town and i think richard will agree, we're all friendly in this town. people get along quite well. it is the rhetoric that goes beyond this town and out in the hinderlands that i think it where it needs to be toned down. my hope is there will be more civility outside the beltway. there is much more civility inside the beltway than gets reported. >> bill: here is my observation. i don't live there but i observe it. my observation to brad and richard is they do get along in person. we saw that yesterday when republicans and democrats came to the microphone together. when they get within their debates among each other they're used to that. i think oftentimes the american people aren't exposed enough to understand that's the way you guys work. aft