texas, republican line. guest: i wonder if you had said negative about barack obama when he campaigned on reforming immigration in his first year in office. he said it over and over again. i bet you there wasn't one reporter who was curious enough to ask president obama in the following seven years if he was going to resolve the issue. he had a super majority and did nothing. white only look back at history instead of slamming and crushing trump on every single paragraph you utter. it drives me nuts. you're not objective. your job in washington is to go after trump. i wonder how many times you have been to the border? i wonder if you have been on horseback, in a helicopter? i wonder if you have talked to the border patrol. host: you have asked several questions. we will let our guest into. -- answer. guest: i appreciate your question. we report objectively at the washington post. we pride ourselves in that.we do not take sides . you have a right to your view. i'm not here to argue with you. at the same time,

the republican revolution, right? the republicans took back the majority after decades out of power. the newt gingrich ascends to the top leadership spot in the house. you know, if you add up all the votes in that election, that congressional election, more people voted for republicans that year by a big margin, 7.1% points was their margin in the popular vote that year. huge win for them in 1994. same story for the republicans again in 2010. 2010 was another huge win for the republicans, particularly in the house. the big tea party insurgency in response to election of barack obama and the big democratic majorities that went along with his first term win. republicans won back the majority in congress in 2010. and, again, you add up all the votes in that congressional election, more people voted for republicans that year by a margin of 6. points. they almost matched their huge margin in 1994. republicans won the popular vote by a big, big margin, tea party revolt. and lots more votes, of course, equals lots more seats

i always want to remind people, we have 15 republican women, also are republican members but we havean amazing panel and not a lot of time so i want to jump into all the questions to think about what role you can play and what role we all have to play and what we've been playing in the past and what we need to do differently for the future. i will start out with kathy mcmorris rodgers, who i have to tell you, when i ran for the first time in 2012 in a very crowded primary, cassie was the only member of congress to step up and support me. >> i'm proud of that, too . >> i've never forgotten that, it was a tough field . >> thank you. kathy can you please share with us, what has worked in the past that you know of, to attract talent, to get strong diverse candidates, really across the finish line, can you give us, you have been at this for a while now and i want to thank you for your leadership and thank you for talking with women who had never run before like myself, i know i wasn't your first person like that to come and sit and have the conversation but tell us about your experience .

-- amongst republicans? interesting, -- it is1: i think interesting, because john kelly, who came out early in support of like sahil was missing, technology, staff, drones, and things like that, but republicans are john kelly does not work for the president anymore, so he is not speaking for the administration. think republicans do exist on the border, in border states, and that is where their constituencies like, understand the incredible dynamics at the border and how some areas become thenots for migrants, and make love, and another area becomes a hot spot, and democrats and many republicans are seeing that as a need for something more dynamic than it will. you can send drones to a different area with that becomes a problem, where a wall is stagnant. guest 2: the president wants to mexicos promise that will pay for the wall. this was a rallying chant. it is obvious now that mexico is not going to put the money down to build a wall. they find it offensive that that is even a thing that they are being asked

republicans gained seats in the senate. republicans lost 40 seats in the house. that is typical. look at what happened to biggestt obama, the democratic loss since 1938. he came back to get reelected. 2020 is a long way away. there are a lot of things in play at this point. you can watch fox or msnbc. you will get a different answer. this is all very fluid and very much in the air. information hir ere, what we call the crack to internetatio over the is exceptionally high. we have a long way to go. we don't know where the economy will be in two years. if the economy is still roaring, or if it is down, that will be a real problem for donald trump and republicans. >> democrats underestimate donald trump's strength at their peril. in 2016.restimated it i don't mean to suggest that i think he is good to be a pushover. >> i agree. kasich, all, i think alley, flake, sass are potential primary opponents for trump in 2020. funeral of george requiem of the republican party. that was the old party, the party that this country needed, that this country doesn't need and should not want the pa

party he calls the republican process rig. there's another word we would hear later from donald trump and he goes off to run for the nomination of the reform party which had been created by perot and he gets an opponent in buchanan's opponent the fall of ninety nine in early two thousand for the reform party nomination is donald trump and this is why i said early on there's a there used to be a different donald trump the donald trump who stepped forward to run against pap you can in called him a hitler lover called him a racist denounced him for getting support from david duke all of a so many of the elements that we would now say are trump ism were the buchanan platform in the ninety's and donald trump back then was calling it racist so it makes his book read by the way in tribalism was the rule of cable news was the rule of social media yeah but i think oh and social media especially but they are they are products of it and accelerators of it and i think both i think that's a big part of the story of this of this book too. y

tonight. >> when it comes to the house republicans themselves, even the senate republicans, where are they as far as commitment to this shutdown and what what president trump says. >> some dissensions starting to break out. seven house republicans voted with democrats to reopen the government. a few senate republicans have started saying it's time to open the government back up and end this shutdown, now in its third week. at the same time, the trump administration is trying to hold strong with their party and so we're starting to see some signs of potential weakness on the republican side. >> the vice president coming down as well as the homeland security secretary, that gives more information to the democrats or reassure the republicans. >> it's designed to reassure the republicans. each side is still playing to their bases. we're not seeing realistic offers to the others that i can plausibly accept. what we're seeing is an attempt to keep the troops in line. >> so our guest will be with us to talk about these issues concerning the shutdown. if you want to ask questions it's -- twee

and gallatin was the leader of the republican opposition in congress. washington condescended to invite gallatin to dinner one cold winter evening before he stepped aside for john adams. albert reported to his wife, hannah, that he had donned my only good coat for the occasion. washington's dinners with congressmen were notoriously solemn affairs. often eaten in virtual silence. this one was no exception. mrs. washington continues to be a very amiable person. not so her husband, in your husband's humble opinion. but that is between you and me. for you know i hate to treason. there is none worse than to refuse singing praises to the best and greatest in men. the next four years were tense. the adams administration got into a low grade war with france, and hamilton and the other federalists used it for expensive additions to the army and navy. they called washington back to command the army. hamilton got himself promoted over more senior generals to be second in command. gallatin and the republican minority tried to resist this military buildup. but it wa

another 5% say republicans. so there you have 55% with trump and the republicans. 32% democrats. and that 32% democrats is really every trump voter in the country at this point. >> yeah. >> presumably. but, charlie, to john's point, the emergency saves weak senators from exactly what they want to be saved from, which is any kind of vote that is awkward. the emergency they know would be immediately challenged in court, just like the trump muslim ban, probably get an injunction against it in federal court very, very quickly, and the ball has left the senate and mitch mcconnell could kind of go on with business. >> well, think about that, though, that the only endgame that they can envision involves basically overriding the legislative process. >> yeah. yeah. >> the republican party has gotten to the point where they could do exactly what john describes and mitch mcconnell, you know, in the back of his mind, he always wants to have an end game, but for the end game to be the declaration of a national emergency and the transfer of billions of defense department dollars to the wall, f

those comments were not reflective of the republican that i am or the republicans, most republicans thatow. and -- >> what needs to change? because it's not just steve king, it's not just trump, there just seems to be a trajectory on which these parties are celebrating on the basis of race. what needs to happen on the republican side? >> we need to make sure we go out and talk over republican in the country. republicans have been in the forefront of promoting education, choice, and innovation. charter schools. giving minority kids, for the most part, more choices and opportunities that they would have if they lived in a white suburban area. and yet, we haven't gone out and really fought to make sure that black and hispanic parents, asian parents know that we're in the forefront. >> hey, listen, republicans have been -- whether you like education reform ideas or not, you've been there, you've been trying to make the situation better for students in those communities. also in criminal justice reform. but isn't trump a big part of the problem. and when you have a president who is saying, yo

is this to assure the republicans about the fight going on? to ensure the republicans. what we see is each side playing with their basis. either sideeeing trying to make realistic offers that they could possibly accept. what we see tonight when officials meet with house republicans is an attempt to keep the troops in line and try to avoid dozens of house republicans of voting with democrats on individual bills to open up specific parts of the government like the irs. host: if you want to ask questions, (202) 748-8000 four , forrats, (202) 748-8001 republicans, (202) 748-8002 for independents. what is the word from the house on the shutdown? is considering bills to open some parts of the government. we saw this in the 2013 shutdown. parks, that is something that is popular with americans. garbage piling up on newspapers and on television. that is a vote that even top republicans who aren't necessarily worrying about reelection in a couple of years, even that is something they might feel pressure to vote for. approach piecemeal might affect both sides. will it have play i

the republicans in the house of representatives rejected the senate bills. the republican bills.nd when you say have we compromised, we have voted for and are prepared to vote for republican bills. these are all the republican bills from the last congress. and as a matter of fact, chuck, as you know, we're going to make every effort to open up government next week. we're going to offer two bills to open up the financial services which will make sure that taxpayers get refunds. we're going to open up ag to make sure that people get food stamps. we're going to open up hud in order to make sure that housing vouchers and interior so people can use their parks. >> when is enough enough? i want to play a clip from a guy named steny hoyer to you from 2011. take a listen. >> okay. >> there does come a time when the american public expect us to be able to act. gridlock is not what they voted for. the priorities that we have agreed to in this resolution are not my priorities. but we have reached agreement. >> basically you have said you supported things. you have had to vote for things you

republican. that one republican, kyrsten steve king who wound up winning -- congressman steve king who wound up winning by less than 3%. at the federal level, great news. democrats did not take back either of the iowa house or senate. they lost the governor's race. it was a mixed bag. point after the election, there seem to be restiveness among democrats. with this war and visit and what's ahead -- with this war visit and what's ahead, there is a crucial senate race here and they are hoping the energy from the presidential sweepstakes that will be played out on the ground will be beneficial to the democratic nominee. henderson, news director for radio iowa. paul steinhauser is new hampshire's political reporter. we are taking calls from across the country. we will start with chicago on our democrats line. caller: good morning. i have a couple questions. is trump's approval rating like in iowa? secondly, it is kind of a comment and question. of info thatt trump is unbeatable. i am not understandin

where are the republicans? the american people support passing our bills, the bills that we have asked unanimous consent for, by wide margins, 2 to 1, including nearly 40% of republicans. 40 percent of republicans -- 40% of republicans support passing our bills and then debating. so, mr. president, even your prize base -- a good chunk of it, about a third -- is turning away are if you on this issue. when will the president and my republican colleagues wake up to the hardship being inflicted on so many people across the country? it's time that the senate act on house-passed bills to open the government. the president, with we know, is inflexible. he's proud, as he said, to have shut down the government. he is, amazingly -- i've never seen a president like this -- impervious to the pain anded suffering of federal workers and the american people. he makes stuff up. oh, the federal workers want the wall. who? two people who are on fox news all the time or part of a border patrol union? that's it. not the average wo

senate, every republican supported it. and that is an extension of the government, at least until february, to give us a time to work out a longer understanding. >> you know, mitch mcconnell reiterated today that he won't put the continuing resolution, that the house democrats plan to pass tomorrow up for a vote, because the president said he won't sign it. is it at possible that there could be enough republican support in the senate to override a presidential veto? >> well, i don't know the answer to that one, but i do think, and this is a very profound point, that the republicans in the senate and i know all of them, you got a lot of decent people there, they have got to understand that the senate is an independent part of the united states government. they don't work for president trump. they work for the american people and their constituents. and we need senators, republican senators, to stand up to this president and tell him that he cannot always get his way. he cannot simply shut down the united states government a

you have your republican study committee type republicans leadership republicans, , your appropriators, your tuesday groups. so this is not a conservative majority or minority at this point. i do think it takes the leadership of the conference and they need to recognize they are putting together a coalition government, and that means you have to be a straight shooter with the different parts of your coalition. that is what i hope we see under leader mccarthy, that he recognizes he has a significant group of his conference that are conservative republicans and they should be represented fairly and listened to, but he also has to do with all the different factions. susan: we have two minutes. final question from either? scott: any doubt in your mind the president will not run for president in 2020? tim: i have no ability to predict what the president will or will not do. if i had to bet, i will bet he is running and would be shocked if he didn't. scott: will he have challengers in the primary? tim: that is a good question. i think there are a couple of people that are thinking about chal

particularly on the republican side. for republicans, let's just pass what we all agreed to. the national emergency was an idea. this is what graham said today. >> the national emergency idea is one way to try to get the wall built. it's got its own problems. just pick. and so i don't know how this movie's going to end. >> senator, it's not a movie. it's real and also you're not watching it. you're writing it. like you can do something about it. >> yeah. this is the dhing that's interesting to me. which was that we have been waiting for the last two years for the moment that republicans in congress will turn on donald trump. right? and early on in his presidency, we thought that it would be the first couple of unprecedented moments or kind of eruptions and it didn't happen and then everyone kind of got cynical about the fact that there's just no political incentive for republicans to turn on trump. it's almost as if in these past 21 days the president has been begging congressional republicans to turn on him. he has put them in such a politically precarious situation and so f

host: why do you think republicans are not interested? why do you think democrats are not interested? what are the politics? trump wants his win and he wants the democrats to say trump is right and it's a great idea. democrats want to make sure trump doesn't get the signature win on the wall. he's been saying calling for a wall since june 2015 since he first started this whole campaign. finallyng him that wall is going to be a huge win if they sign on to that. and really they have dug in their feet pretty far for this point. it's tough for them to go back and let him have that win on the wall. members are saying that any kind of border wall is a and things like that. now its ando say it we will let the wall go through. host: what do you think about this proposal that jason russell is putting out their? chicago tribune also has that same endorsement of this kind of idea. a republican, democrat, independent, what do you think? give the president of 5.7 billion for the wall. democrats get the permanent daca program for the so-called dreamers

. >> were you always a republican? >> yeah, i've always been on the republican side. >> why? >> why? my dad fought in world war ii. he landed on omaha beach. i love the military. i love a strong military. i like less government instead of more government. and i like a freer market, less regulations. i look at is as the american people built this country -- the government didn't build this country. but on social issues, i've always been very progressive. >> you're pro-choice? >> oh, yeah. yeah, yeah. pro-choice. >> pro-lgbt freedom? >> i really didn't understand lgbt issues until after i transitioned, and so, yeah, i had a lot to learn there. >> so you say that it was -- >> but i am for marriage equality. i'm for lgbt rights. i'm for trans rights. i'm for everything, baby. >> as you know, "firing line" was on the air for 33 years, and it was hosted by william f. buckley, who had a very prominent conservative who came out and then came on "firing line" to talk about being gay and being conservative, and i'd like to get y

it is not complicated republican should toe the line into with a republican president once. >> is heling the liner speaking his conscience? >> romney said he supports corporate tax cuts, securing the border, no question about it but the issue going forward when romney said is a lot of things we can agree on but on various areas we disagree i will make it clear we disagree, that is okay. >> a clip from the 2012 campaign that sticks in the cross of a lot of republican still upset at romney, watch. >> it took a long time to say this is a terrorist act and to suggest, am i correct in that regard? your secretary -- the ambassador of the united nations, spoke about -- >> we will have a longer conversation. >> that is where republicans, the president telling me mitt romney couldn't take it to barack obama when he had the chance on benghazi and is hammering donald trump hard when he's a fellow republican. >> mitt romney with everyday fighting barack obama, working hard to demonstrate the differences between him and obama. that was a poorly handled debate by the moderator. >> the republican n

republicans understand this. in this letter i reported on i , reported that the administration lays out $800 million it would like to see added to humanitarian needs and at the border. it is something democratic aides have discussed behind the scenes at the white house. they would like to see money for that. democrats do not want to talk about adding $800 million to the budget for humanitarian needs until the government is reopened. what the administration is trying to do is try to entice democrats to talk about a wall if more money for other programs was involved in discussion. host: here is the story on the website of the washington post that our guest contributed to. trump officials make new offers, seek novel ways to deal with impact. new york, democrats line, paul. caller: congratulations for you for taking over. you have done an excellent job. i get most of my news from c-span and pbs. the second thing is, could you change your set back the way it was when you had that roundtable? guest: it is a roundtable

republican line. go ahead. do you remember the pbs documentary, 15 or 20 years ago, court of shame, a certain section of south carolina. i live in that corridor. a bunch of schools, some only have 200 or 300 students. hasy school in this county two or more second-language teachers. get are so bad, they cannot spanish teachers in the united states. they have to get them from other countries. ,aybe you can write an article maybe you can get somebody to thee an article about shortage of second-language teachers for our students. we are paying property taxes for all of these students and they are just on the margin. host: thank you. guest: i appreciate the suggestion. it is an interesting idea. we will look into it. host: carmen, hello. your guest just said republicans are using [indiscernible] down the government. i respectfully disagree. this is not about opportunity. this is the cause itself. our programs, the beneficiaries are african-americans or hispanics. the beneficiaries are not russian, chinese,

are they more of a trump supporter than republican? 57% of republicans call themselves that.the party call themselves a republican before. >> here's my final point to that. then you take him on the same way that barack obama took on hillary, by expanding the electorate. the conventional democratic electorate, we lost to hillary clinton. we expand the electorate. what's a republican who can expand the republican electorate. >> if you're looking at a conservative idealism, jeff flake or ben sass or a john kasich independent kind of protest candidate, that's one thing. if 2019 goes badly is where you start seeing tom cottons or other republicans who think they may have a future in the party taking this on. >> and institutions are increasingly not as important in american politics. like the rnc and the dnc. but state parties matter. and if state parties are not allowing primary challenges to go forward, we're seeing that already -- seeds of that in south carolina and other places. the state party could have some power in keeping one of those people off the ballot entirely. >> tha

republican.ack? caller: hi. good morning. i wish that gentleman from california well. i really do. i am on the other side of the spectrum. she was speaker before. overall, it didn't go too well for her. a snidehter makes like comment like she will cut your head off and you won't know it. i don't like that confrontation. you have to hit back with that. furthermore, that congresswoman from michigan with that vulgar language, she is another one. a bit.ritates me quite ultimately, it will backfire. talk like that talk tough, but they are cowardly. i am not necessarily a fan of donald trump. they are talking about putting jim webb in for defense secretary. i like him a lot. i don't think trump will pick him. person mannd up to a to man. he is a tough guy. i think trump would be afraid of him. host: jack in providence, rhode island. jackie is a democrat in sarasota, florida. what do you think about nancy pelosi and the democrats in control of the house? the headline in usa today, pelosi promises differ

among the republican nos tom cotton from arkansas and mike lee, the republican from utah.nother vote will start in a minute. these were these competing side by side plans. republicans first, that failed. this would reopen the government through the end of september. fund the border wall, provide provisions for democrat recipients. now the democrats with a temporary bill which would fund the government through february 28. this is a procedural vote, shep. needs 60 yays. we expect some republican defections here. we're looking at going back to my list, susan collins of maine, lisa murkowski of alaska and gory gardner of colorado. both of these will fail, but the key here is that the senate is taking its first votes on ending the government shut down since late december, before christmas. these are markers that the senate is throwing down to say, we can't get the 60 votes on either republican plan or a democratic plan, shep. >> shepard: john bussey, unusual for mitch mcconnell specifically to bring anything up that is not going to get the president's signature. this is happen

you can watch your campaign speech with republicans. house republicans.quoting of reagan anymore. donald trump destroyed ronald reagan. and destroyed ronald reagan's power even after holding office and even after death in the republican party. which was an extraordinary power that ronald reagan held for a long time. >> and you're talking about the power of example? >> of his ideas. republicans were living under reaganism for a few decades. decad decades. they were living under republican principles that reagan lived by. and they were narrowing them all the time. i mean, reagan, for example, was in favor of raising taxes when it made sense to him, and it sometimes made sense to him. he's not one who said we should never raise taxes, but the inheriters of the reagan legacy did. they didn't refine it very much. trump blew it away, and blow si sh -- pelosi showed that today. >> i could go on and on. >> come back at 10:00. >> it's called the last word with lawrence o'donnell. it's one of the most popular shows on cable news. you're hosting it tonight. >> that

less than convincing other republicans or having other republicans come along. there's been some dialogue about that. but this was about mitt romney saying, where he stands and it is where he stood on donald trump all along. >> so what do you make of it? there is this other fascinating element. romney's niece, the chair of the republican party, colonels out against him on this. >> i think it comes down to, whose republican party is it? is it mitt romney's party or donald trump's republican party? i think the answer lies in the fact when romney took over, he asked her to stop using her maiden name. so this is donald trump's party. does that mean i think vom politically unsophisticated? no. i think you have two leaders with two very different sets of values and two different approaches to leading. and right now, in the republican party, there are many voters who see in trump somebody who has the same common enemies they have. they see someone willing to take on those enemies. in today's republican party politics, those are the identity politicses that i think fran

republicans are going to matt thornberry the house arms services committee, republican, saying he isspending pentagon money. he is going to need a win and something he can declare victory on. things are so broken and that's what jared kushner is doing. what can we do to make it look like a win? things are so frayed because of the first two years of his presidency it makes this all the harder. what would be a win at this point? i guess the other question i have is if the president went back and was forced back into conventional thinking then i have to accept a compromise. he could have had 1.7, maybe $2 billion in wall funding and i don't know if nancy pelosi would bring that to the floor now and that was when republicans controlled the house a couple of weeks ago. can he eaven get that now? will she bring that to the floor. >> >> that's a question that democrats don't have to answer because of the government shutdown and that's why we're hearing about the pain this is inflicting on federal workers and it seems that it's broadly supported let's re-open the government while we have the

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the republican proposal is up now. 60 votes and then goes to the democratic proposal to end debate there. the reason we think they will fail, the only reason you do a side by side vote on both of these proposals is you know it's going to fail. both proposals would probably get 51 votes if they went to a straight up or down vote. what you do to euthanize them is submit it to a 60-vote threshold. there's some thought here once they have demonstrated -- remember, this is the first time the senate has tackled anything in relation to the government shut down since december 18. that was the bill to fund it through february 4. once they demonstrate they can't get 60 votes, maybe there's an effort to try to work something out behind the scenes. if you can't get 60 votes, you're stuck in the united states senate. >> dana: what about kevin mccarthy was talking about earlier, that they have been able to get 13 democrats to come over to vote with the republicans to pay federal workers during the shut down. could that actually -- c

the republican whip. he was not able to attend because he is on the house floor but i have to tell you when we launched this initiative which started offer as informal, talking about the importance of electing more republican women, steve was the first phone call, he was the first check to max out to this initiative so i want to publicly thank him. i want to publicly thank all of the leadership for their support, for their commitment and for elevating our current women who are serving in the house and understanding how important our voices are. thank you so much for coming. >> let's thank elise. thank you, [applause] >> are we ready for the next panel? so our next panel is elevating our current women leaders which we -- many of us mentioned them today. we have amazing women in congress so i want to invite up to the stage congresswoman susan brooks from indiana who will serve as our moderator. susan has lots of fans here today. congresswoman jamie herrera butler from the state of washington, another amazin

bush got his shot with the republican congress. complete republican rule of washington. iraq and katrina and scandals, there was another monster backlash. and by 2006, the republican congress was history. two years later, bush was gone replaced by barack obama. but that led to yet another backlash fueled by the tea party and democrats lost the house again in 2010. then of course came donald trump. another president coming to office with his party running congress. and now another president who has seen his party's majority crumble. it's been this way for a generation now. we have seen each party build up enough power to push its agenda through. what we don't see is the public then reward either party for what it's done. backlashes in waves have become the norm. so have transfers of power like we watched today. that's "hardball" for now. >>> all in with chris hayes starts right now. tonight on "all in," live from washington, d.c. on a big day for democrats. >> to the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, i extend to you this gavel. >> nancy pelosi and the democrats have tak

pacts and in 2016, we $250,000 to the republican leadership pacts. $2 million to er republican women in the house that is money then that they can use, if they want to support we had some ues, womenc, really impressive that were running this last cycle. job with a great recruitment. we were able to help them in we had the as women, resources that we need. we want to continue to grow that. do even double that this cycle because we need as any organizations as possible that are committed to helping women financially. pact is limited. 5000 in the primary, 5000 in the general. to be creative how you can get that money to the women women's leadership series i think has been a great helped them t has both in their official work look get and then also helped other women elected and businesses or others that want primaries, but sometimes don't want to do it directly, this is way to support, if you are supporting jackie's leadership pact and there was a woman who ran in hope a, erin houchen, i she is here, from indiana. >> she will be here. >> she will be here. sarah wehr is looking at run ex

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democrats outperformed republicans by nine points generically, republicans picked up state in the senate, republicans lost 40 seats in the house but that's typical. look what happened to obama in the midterms in 2010. the biggest democratic loss since 1938. look at what happened to bill clinton in the midterms in 1994, both times medical writers wrote their obituaries and they came back to get reelected. 2020 is a long way away. there are a lot of things that play in this point and you can watch fox or msnbc and you will get a different answer to what's happening but i think it's still very much, this is all very fluid and very much in the air. with the new media thing, people get their information here, what we call the craft to content ratio. it's exceptionally high. people walk around in their own little bubbles at this point. i think we have a long way to go. you don't know where the economy will be in 2 years if the economy is still roaring or if it's down i think it will be a real problem particularly for donald trump. >> democrats underestimate trump strength at their peril. under

the four groups, house democrats and republicans, senate republicans, the house republicans have the least amount of influence of all. they cannot stop legislation or delay it like senate democrats can. but they can certainly attract a crowd. they can push the president in ways he likes to hear. he certainly likes the rhetoric that can come out of a rowdy minority caucus. one thing that shows how diminish the house republicans are, and this is kevin mccarthy's challenge, is in the previous two years, we had joint retreats with senate and house republicans. they were planning a majority agenda with the president of the united states. so the president went in virginia,ia and west and kind of like the state of the union, we do not know when it will be on if it will. it will be the house republicans because senate republicans have their own way of doing things now and it doesn't involve coordinating with the minority at least legislation. politically, it is a different topic here in mitch mcconnell does not need to coordinate much. he let things work themselves out like a splinter almost

where other republicans? the american people support passing our bills, the bills that we have asked consent for by wide markets, two -- one. including yearly 40% of republicans. 40% of republicans40 support passing our bills and then debate. so mr. president, even your prime face, a good chunk of it, about a third is turning away from you. on this issue. when the president and my republican colleagues wake up? seeing the inflicted on so many people across the country. it's time for senate act on the bills to open the government. the president we know inflexible. he's proud as he said, to have shut down the government. a he is amazingly, i've never seen a president like this, impervious to the pain of the american people. he makes stuff up. they all want to wall, who? to people on fox news all the time? part of a border patrol unit? that's it. not the average worker. if the president biggest allies here in the chamber, his deputies have the power to negotiate since president trump retracts their offers, almos

it's not every day a former republican presidential nominee who is now an incoming republican senator takes on a sitting republican president. but these are extraordinary times. senator elect mitt romney wrote an op-ed for the west saying, for the "washington post" saying. "the president has not risen to the mantle of the office. romney and the president have a complicated relationship to say the least. back in 2012 it, romney was tried to fended off gingrich and santorum and got help from an endorsement by reality tv star donald trump. he took it despite trump was spreading the racist birther conspiracy thoroughly about president obama. >> mitt is tough. he's smart. he's sharp. he's not going to allow bad things to continue to happen to this country that we all love. so governor romney, go out and get them. you can do it. >> thank you, thank you. >> there are some things that you just can't imagine happening in your life. this is one of them. being in donald trump's magnificent hotel and having his endorsement is a delight. >> that was then. four years later with trump winning primar

is pulling things and the republicans will not hold him back because he is republican. i have a big problem with that. life goes.ay we are americans first, then politicians. steve: how did both sides get to that point? caller: i'm not really sure. i wish i knew. once upon a time, i am 70 years old, they disagreed on points but they could discuss problems and work through it. they can't seem to do it now. will not call a vote on something he doesn't like, even though the majority of the senators wanted us. leader of the senate and house of representatives have too much power with respect to something like that. >> did you watch our new documentary on the senate? caller: no, i just turned it on so i missed that. steve: it is on our website and it is reentering at 11:00 eastern time, a two-year project and we give you an inside look into exactly how the senate works. it is history as we sit down with current 10 former senators and talk about some of the highlights over the 200 plus senate and the television coverage that began in 1986. 11:00 eastern and on c-span.org. dwig

the republican proposal would. put simply, the texas court ruled that obamacare's individual mandate is unconstitutional. now, we also know it didn't work. the individual mandate didn't live up to its promise. we were told that the individual mandate would encourage enrollment. in fact, the congressional budget office argued 24 million americans would enroll in obamacare by 2018. but less than half that number actually enrolled and paid for their coverage. 12 million others paid the penalty or claimed an exemption. moreover, those that have signed up have seen skyrocketing premiums and thousands of dollars in deductibles. pre-existing condition protections are greatly diminished when you cannot afford your premiums or deductibles. republicans have long supported pre-existing condition protections for americans. in fact, in 2016 our health care agenda, a better way, our vision for a confident america, we clearly stated and i quote, no american should ever be denied coverage or face a coverage exclusion on the basis