in a year, that could be no longer the case. >> dickerson: ramesh, why is so hard?blicans have rushed it through, and they've found they need more time to get it through. because it's a cobbled-together piece of legislation nobody loves it. nobody out there is pushing back misrepresentations of it. >> it's an orphan susan collins, this morning, john mccain suggested it friday before this news came out, they want to see it go back to regular order, which means putting it back in the committees, letting them hash it out in public, drag it out. they've seen the failure of the affordable care act, the fact that it was put together by just democrats. there are democrats out there that want to work with republicans on this, and vice versa on prescription drug prices, on the access to this, allowing people to buy across state lines. there are proposals to do that, but they haven't been given the space, time, and authority to do it. >> dickerson: jeffrey, what's your assessment of the president's role here? he's our first marketer president -- that may not be true, but that

i just heard ramesh wants in.ry. >> the administration did just announce the objectives for renegotiating nafta today. i'm not generally in sympathy on their positions on trade, but they've seen erosion over the last few months. the counties where they surged, in the nbc poll, they need to work on this. one of the big problems they've had is the percentage of americans who are confident he's bringing jobs back has dropped. >> what would the president need to do to turn the narrative around in his favor, chris? >> well, you know, i think one of the things that's really depressing here is there's almost no way out for america now, if we talk about the russian question. the russians have essentially won. imagine if we do have an indictment handed down by a grand jury after the mueller investigation, and we still have trump in office, and that is exactly what will happen, so if the goal of the russians was to undermine american democracy, and the credibility of american democracy, that's done. and it's only going to g

"national review" senior editor ramesh ponnuru and anna palmer and jake sherman, co-authors of politico's "politico playbook." welcome. happy fourth of july weekend to all of you. the latest tweet and we'll get to health care but we have more tweets from the president saying my use of social media is not presidential. it's modern day presidential. make america great again. and at his appearance supposedly honoring veterans, the vitriol continued and he said the fake media tried to stop us from going to the white house but i'm president and they're not. we won and they lost. so he continues on this. you are very passionate about this this week and the attacks on mika brzezinski and joe scarborough, ana. >> and i continue to be very passionate about it. i am incredibly bothered that we are lowering the standards and the requisites of what it takes to be president of the united states in terms of character, in terms of behavior. it is very difficult to focus on policy when you've got somebody that is so diminishing and damaging and making such harm to the office of the presidency. no weekend

the standards of the presidency of the united states. >> she's kind of a tough act to follow there, ramesh. let me say. >> sure. >> one thing sarah huckabee sanders said americans knew who they were donald trump. now, i found actually on the road that a lot of people really don't like these tweets but they seem to say, okay, we'll just ignore them or it's juvenile, but, but, but. >> right, you know, scarbrough and brzezinski wrote an op-ed in "the washington post" where in response to his tweets where among other things he doesn't seem like the same man that they knew two years ago and while i don't know president trump as well as they do, i haven't spent quite as much time in his company as they have, haven't been as chummy, they -- i think they're wrong about that. i this i that trump is acting exactly the way he showed himself to be for the preceding 70 years on this earth. and so sanders is right. people did know this is what we were getting. they either supported him, knowing this despite it and some cases because of it or voted against him because of things like this. but it's just -

ramesh: we have made significant progress on the military campaign, so that is chasing isis out of its and syria, taking out its leadership, removing some of the foreign fighters who went to iraq and syria to fight with isis, moving them from the battlefield. there is slow but steady progress, taking back mosul, a big breakthrough for the coalition against isis. what we are still maybe not as far along as we should we, or the problem that will be there going forward is what to do with the ability of isis and other organizations to recruit, reach, and connect with potential recruits through online means, through the internet and social media, but also offline, through mosques and schools and gyms and prisons and all the other ways people become radicalized. oliver: the way the ground fight could be coming to an end, maybe not the total victory declared after the mosul victory, but at the end of the day, the numbers are dwindling. the cash flows are twiddling. what does that pressure isis to do? how do they need to rethink, and how do we expect them to rethink what they have been doing i

ramesh, john kelly, problem solved? >> well, i think that it is going to be very hard for anybody to run this white house wp kind of military precision, even somebody who has got a military background. and you've got to wonder, everybody says he's got a great reputation. people say great things about him. you've got to wonder about the judgment of anybody who would take this job, especially under these circumstances. >> but an, it's probably harder for steve bannon to yell at reince priebus in front of others or a jared kushner to just dismiss a guy who was a four star general. >> yeah. i mean, clearly kelly walks into a room and you know he's there, right. he's a big guy. he has a very direct manner of speaki speaking by all accounts he has a good relationship with trump. they didn't know one another before this. and also, he's developed a good reputation among other people at the white house with mcmaster, with mcmaster's deputy, dina powell. he has a pretty good relationship with rex tillerson. i know nothing of his

. >> ramesh, this is not funny. way -- >> i didn't say it was. >> there's way -- he can't we've all seen it. we have seen the results of harassment and we've seen the results of shootings and seen the result of violence out in the street. and for the president of the united states who is supposed to be unifying this country on a july 4th weekend to be tweeting out incitement to violence, it is incitement to violence, let us not parse words. let us not call it by any other name. it is disgusting by this president. yet one more disgusting act. >> we'll have to leave it there, thanks all of us. thanks to all of you for joining us and happy july 4th. we'll be right back after this from our abc stations. back after this from our abc stations. >>> thats's all for us today. thanks for sharing part of your sunday with us. check out "world news tonight." have a great day and have a happy and safe fourth. a happy and safe fourth. >> another philadelphia politician is sitting in a jail cell. let's get the inside story. good mo