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Dont do something, some people in this country will have no options for coverage. >> white house press secretary sean spicer there today trying to ramp up the pressure on house republicans to get behind that republican obamacare replacement plan. and republicans may be moving closer to getting that passed in the house. just today, two republican members of the house, fred upton and billy long, yesterday they had opposed the bill, today they changed their minds. they put their names in the yes co...

Time to learn. thats what well see out of the president. >> do we mean part of the problem was he promised a number of these things would be done in the first 100 days and in fact he even started with day one repealing and replacing obama ca obamacare. >> the problem he faces is a divided republican party. people often times forget about trump that he ran against his own party. he ran against the establishment. democratic and republican establishment. its going to be harder to make deals. >> how...

Floor of the house. house leaders say they are making progress but americans are less optimistic a deal will ever get done. a new cnn/orc poll says its 20% likely that republicans will repeal and replace obamacare down 50% from when trump took office in january. cnn national correspondent suzanne malveaux joining me now. good to see you. how close are they to putting together a bill to actually bring to the floor of the house for a vote. >> good to see you, too, fred. the conservatives led by th...

Of the promises. trump pledged to uphold the u.s. out of the transpacific partnership. he followed through on that. appointment for vacant spot on the u.s. supreme court. put a check on that one. border wall and tax reform, both incomplete. repeal and replace obamacare. a travel ban. labeling china a currency manipulator. he reversed course or failed on all of those. i want to bring in my panel. good to see all of you. one big promise, the border wall with mexico. the president still insists it ...

Issue before congress which is getting rid of balm. ma ca obamacare and trillion dollars in obamacare taxes, more than a trillion dollars in spending and reforming the system. >> if you talk to moderates and people who are, you know -- they will tell you 17% approval rating for something, it doesnt do any of them any good, john. do you think the tweets are a negotiating tactic? you think theyll work? >> look, grover, great spin, lousy bill. nobody trusted paul ryan. down a path that couldnt work...

From outside is that people are watching this debate as it begins, once again, you know, really heated. and theyre hearing the tone coming out of democrats as we heard from senator schumer saying that theyre the ones that are going to own it if they break it and its almost, we dont see anything coming out of the democrats saying, well here are the areas where we are willing to work, were not seeing any clear ideas as to how we can address some of those issues that you just identified in terms of...

Followed by failing program, higher premiums, higher deductibles. >> our republican colleagues dont quite know what to do. theyre like the dog who caught the bus. >> speaker ryan there and senate minority leader, chuck schumer, battling it out today. and really from the start, before the affordable care act was signed, this has been a pretty brutal fight from heated town hall events with protests erupting to anti-obama care rallies that were ugly and at times divisive. today president-elect dona...

Slighted oftentimes by democrats grossly exaggerated. what do you say to those charges? >> first of all, he would need to go and look at the omb report that contradicts what the office of budget and management says, the nonpartisan office. now, the -- what i think is important for us to understand is that as a result of the affordable care act, we do have some issues that need to be repaired and fixed and the president and any democrat in the country will say, yes, we need to make some changes b...

Appointment at the white house. he said, okay, let me stay just a little longer. a few minutes later they came back and stayed a little longer. for a brief moment, i thought joe biden has somehow got into the body of barack obama. but it was a good meeting and the president made it very clear that if the republicans proceed with this wrong-headed plan to repeal obamacare, they will rule the day because they have nothing to present to the american people that will satisfy them. >> congressman, i ...

In that meeting. you had the vice president-elect mr. pence talking about a plan, saying yes, theyre going to start repealing it on day one, unclear exactly whether or not the executive actions mr. trump is going to do on day one are going to be centered on health care or whether or not theyre going do be rolling back some of mr. obamas policies. heres how pence put it, talked about a clear dual-track strategy. >> were working right now, the white house staff is, on a series of executive orders ...