Senator Chuck Schumer

But health care in particular.

We said to the Republicans way in advance, let's sit down and negotiate.

And we started in July and Thune and Johnson, these are the two Republican leaders of the Senate and the House, said no.

And we wondered why.

And then in late August, early September, I don't remember exactly when, Trump said, we don't need the Democrats.

Well, of course they do because he needs 60 votes in the Senate and they got 53.

I was wondering what his math was like.

And so they didn't try to negotiate.

Finally, we did get Trump to sit down with us.

We asked Trump to sit down with us.

Once we found out that the two of them wouldn't do it

We asked Trump to sit down with us.

He said yes, and then the next day, you may remember, he said no, because Johnson said don't do it.

But he finally did the day before, but it was too late, and he didn't have a serious negotiation.

It was in the Oval Office, and he, well, two interesting things happened.

First, he didn't take it that seriously.

He was playing his games.

You know, he put these Make America Great red hats on the desk.

Of course we didn't put them on.

Well, I think so.