that's syndicated columnist mark shields and "washington post" columnist michael gerson.id brooks is away. let's start with this little party that was on the rose garden yesterday, this was a celebratory atmosphere. president trump brought them there after the healthcare repeal pushed through the house. how did they manage to do this? >> well, first of all the event itself, the only thing as unseem low as the sell congratulate tree bus trip to the whitehouse. it's like a scott ball game and you break out the beer. with the democrats on the house floor taunting bye bye bye to republicans. this is trivializing a moral issue. this to me, that's what healthcare is. whether in fact it is a right of a as citizen in this country of healthcare. it's a serious country. do we share or benefits and share our burdens or whether in fact we're all in this alone. with the house passed yesterday, it was something that just had to be done. i mean otherwise you're staring in the abyss of total political failure. republicans had gone through four elections with one unanimous position all ta

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slamming incident in montana, i mean, it's deceptive, it's cruel and it really does go to what michael gersoning about here, whatever the political fallout is, you get the feeling that a lot of these people have basically sacrificed their souls and the damage this is going to the conservative movement i think runs far deep er than the fallout or political consequences we're going to see inevitably. >> all right. i'm going to bring in my fantastic panel. nbc news national political correspondent, steve kornacki. republican strategist susan delpersio. and the reverend al, host of msnbc's "politics nation." i wanted to bring you in sooner, i wanted to bring you in when you started nodding at everything charlie sykes started s saying. how can we all nod to decimation of the soul of a once great political party even if you didn't agree with them, but still watch it get worse? >> i think that we nod because we agree that this is not the conservative movement or the republican party that we all knew. even though we disagree. i remember when i was a kid growing up in new york, i used to go to the set

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> dickerson: we turn now to our political panel, susan page is the bureau chief of usa today, michael gerson nancy correspondent, for cbs news, and jamelle b slate's chief political correspondent, i want to pick up on condoleezza rice with whom you worked, the threat to democracy all over the world now and is a big story and it is taking place in france in the election today. >> yes, it is true and american policy in europe, for example, has been democracy unit for seven decades, there is a reason for that. because in every country you have a conflict between identity and i'd idealism and nationalism and transnational ideals, and in the 20est century all the boston events of the 20th century took place because of the tribe of identity over idealism in europe, so i think there is a very direct interest that everybody has in the outcome of these kind of debates. >> dickerson: what are you watching, jamelle, in the outcome of the french election that americans may care about? >> i am watching to see how well le pen will do in today's elections, i think the convention wisdom is micron will fall