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Infrastructure today than they might have been the week after the election. everything hes done has been to attack president obama, attack hillary clinton, attack democrats, attack obamacare. so hes lost the room -- some room to do that. and as charlie said, if he ever did do that, he would just completely blow up the republican party. so these arent good choices. >> and democrats also want to be re-elected and their grassroots, which really led the opposition to this bill, have made it very cle...

Flexibility to be able to reform medicaid. will help americans to be able to purchase health insurance, but the cost of health insurance will go down. and so, were looking forward, as i told leaders in the senate today as im meeting with members of congress this afternoon, we really do believe this is a historic opportunity to repeal the failed policies of obamacare. and replace it with the kind of reforms thatll lower the cost of health insurance, even while we ensure that the most vulnerable h...

I believe in going through the process the way it was meant to go through. we didnt write this bill in my office on christmas eve like they did in harry reids office and jam it through to an unsuspecting country. these committees will be marking up the legislation tomorrow, then it goes to the rules committee the week after that, which is regular order. so im excit were doing this the right way and doing it out in plain sight. go to readthebill.gop. the nightmare of obamacare is about to end. th...

Controlled health care, the regulations it imposed upon everybody else. today is a new day, and we stand proud with our president that he supports this bill to move forward, to keep the promise that we made, that we would repeal obamacare and replace that, and put the power back with the individuals. >> well, good afternoon. i want to thank my colleagues for their work on this, especially the president, the vice president, secretary price, mr. brady and the members of our energy and commerce com...

Health care reforms, that we as conservatives have been arguing and fighting for, for years. [ inaudible ] >> -- a lot of this bill is steeped in your agenda. are those criticisms of repudiation of what you crafted in a better way? >> let me just give you a list of whats in here that conservatives should be excited about. number one, the bill repeals obamacare. number two, it repeals the obamacare taxes, which is tax relief for families for the cost of health care. it repeals the obamacare spend...

That theyre seeing in those red counties in the middle of the country. big approval rating from there. on the flipside, about 400 counties where hillary clinton bo won landslides. im being told the speaker of the house is up. lets listen. >> this bill, the american health care act, it keeps our promise to repeal and replace obamacare. it dlelivers relief to american fed up with skyrocketing premiums and moves us towards a better patient-centered system. that means lower costs for hard-worng fami...

Something we werent initially hearing, this three-phase idea. were going to pass this now, do more stuff later. is that going to be compelling to republicans wavering right now? >> theyve been saying that for a while now, thats the message thats been conveyed to members and it hasnt resonated. the big question is how hard does donald trump lean into this? does he bully -- use the bully pulpit to put pressure on republicans in the house and senate who are calling it obamacare light and obamacare ...

And the sick people. thats what theyve presented to us. >> all right. thanks for the time. >> thank you. >> thank you, steve. again, we are counting down here, the speaker of the house, paul ryan is set to hold the news conference sometime in the next few minutes. yesterday, republican leaders put out their repeal and replace plan on obamacare. there has been a torrent of criticism, of concerns raised by conservatives, by republicans throughout the day. if this is going to get past the house, ...

Full repeal, 39%, so a slight majority saying keep and improve what is already in place. how should democrats be handle thing right now with republicans trying to push this through without democratic support? >> i think they should be standing up for the american people who may potentially, 15 to 20 million, may be kicked off -- if you look at this plan, may be kicked off of obamacare, health care. the plan is going to cost more, cover less. its putting us back at the whim of health care insuran...

Mind when they said this for the last seven years? >> i think its pretty similar to what republicans had in mind. of course that varies depending upon which republican you talk to, but the principles of repeal have been repeali the individual mandate, repeing the taxes that are in individu are job killers, those individual mandates which are job killers. a lot of people were reduced to part-time status or might have lost their jobs completely as a result of cutbacks as a result of obamacare. so ...