Four days into a government shutdown, congressional Republicans are refusing to negotiate, doing away with “regular order” in a bid to help President Trump use the shutdown as an excuse to punish his “enemies” and advance his agenda. Ali Velshi reminds Americans who these “enemies” actually are, and how the late great senator and presidential candidate John McCain showed us what real leadership — and representation of the people — really looked like the last time Republicans did away with regular order.

Though he had campaigned against “Obamacare,” McCain admonished the leaders of his own party for their effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act without even considering what would replace the law that provided insurance for, at that time, over 10 million Americans, back in July of

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