Schumer makes some interesting points

Schumer Delivers A Warning: GOP Will 'Rue The Day' They Repeal Obamacare

Trump, after meeting with Obama, said he'd like to keep popular pieces of the six-year-old law, including the requirement to extend coverage to people with pre-existing conditions and the provision allowing young adults to stay on their parents' health plans until age 26.

But Schumer said it was a non-starter to try picking off favored pieces of the Affordable Care Act.

"There is no way that you can keep those things without keeping the ACA," Schumer insisted. He added that he'd made similar points directly to Trump, but declined to share the president-elect's response.

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"He should not even try to think about repealing Dodd-Frank," Schumer said. "We will have enough votes to beat that back."

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But the Brooklyn-born Schumer pledged to work with fellow New Yorker Trump when possible, arguing that to do otherwise would amount to a "a dereliction of our responsibility to the millions of Americans who need work, who need protection."

Indeed Schumer argued that on some issues Trump has more in common with the Democrats than Republicans, suggesting a strategy that would amount to forming alliances with Trump where possible against the wishes of conservative Republicans and GOP leaders on the Hill.

"Donald Trump in his campaign advocated many things or a good number of economic issues that Democrats support and Republicans have opposed," Schumer said, pointing to trade, spending on infrastructure, and a financial loophole benefiting wealthy Wall Street interests.