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So it does create this interesting scenario for a lot of grass roots conservatives to see where they end up. >> all right. phillip clyne from the washington examiner, thanks for taking a few minutes. >> thanks. joining us now, barbara lee, democrat from california, congresswoman, thanks for joining us. well, you just heard, i think there phillip clyne from the washington examiner say look, there are some areas where this proposal from congressional republican leaders does not do quite what con...

Inclusive process. after the election, we began to work with the senate and the trump administration on this plan. i want to thank president trump. i want to thank vice president pence, and i want to thank secretary price for their support and hard work in getting us to this repeal and replace points. i also want to thank chairman brady and chairman walden for their leadership. now this bill will go through the house. as it does, i encourage all americans to read this bill online at readthebill....

Since president obama left office, support for obamacare has gone up in polls. is there a connection there? is having him off the political stage helping the popularity? >> i think whats happened is that finally republicans were in a place where rhetoric didnt matter. they needed to govern. they needed to say okay, if youre going to repeal it, what does it look like? and they didnt have anything until now. they said they would have something on trumps desk by january 20th, and they didnt. so whe...

Normally do, to get a sense of how much people are going to be covered and how much this is going to cost. so whats happening is, they are creating, manufacturing a health care crisis that really doesnt exist right now. >> ron,ky put that number back up on the screen. i wonder if theres another way of looking at this. that they would keep and improve is at 51%. one of the criticisms from the right is this republican replacement plan they say would keep the basic infrastructure of obamacare. it w...

Keeping the core of obamacare in place? >> i dont think theyre keeping the core of obamacare in place. i think the republicans are moving forward with what president trump said. he favored repeal of obamacare, but keeping those elements that are in that house bill, because thats what americans want and support. and he campaigned on it. he was very clear during the campaign. but completely gone are these job-killing, individual mandates, and the taxes, including a medical device tax, which makes ...

Hearing today, russia. an issue that has been dominating headlines for the first few weeks here of the trump presidency. we will show you the full exchange, explain what was going on there ahead. that and much more to come. we begin though with our top story. it has finally arrived, the republican leadership, at least, the republican leadership and now the trump white house, theyre plan to repeal and replace obamacare. they call it the american health care act. it has landed on capitol hill thou...

Been covered. and for the republicans to talk about repealing the affordable care act really is very heartless. its wrong. and when you look at what theyre proposing and were still reviewing this because they put it out last night and to want have hearings this week. when you look at this, its going to be the poor, low income individuals, its going to be the elderly and disabled who are going to get hurt. >> when you say its very popular. how would you interpret this? i wonder about this sometim...

I do want to thank the president and the vice president. i do want to thank our new secretary, tom price as well. the president said he was proud to support this new bill. why? because of the years of work thats gone into it. we know why were here today. because obamacare did three essential points. one, it created exchange. but we all know the history of whats happened to that. the failures. the companies pulling out. and now you have one-third of the entire country, 1,022 counties with one onl...

Competition, and ensure health care access for all americans. this will be a plan where you can choose your doctor, this will be a plan where you can choose your plan. and you know what the plan is, this is the plan. and were going to have a tremendous, i think were going to have a tremendous success. its a complicated process, but actually its very simple. its called good health care. >> all right. for more now, i want to bring in the senior advisor and spokesperson for movon.org worked under p...

The market and brings certainty to bring more plans to get the states back in the game of being able to regulate health care. phase three, pass those reforms that we believe in and will make it even better but we know we cant put in reconciliation because of the 60-vote threshold. thank you very much, everybody. appreciate it. >> all right. there it is. thats house speaker paul ryan, two other top republicans there. they are offering their road map forward on this repeal and replace bill on the ...