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Three, thats when we are to remove that stateline restriction. the problem is, what do you need in phase three, you need 60 senate votes in phase three. youre never going to get 60 votes. >> i dont know if i would agree with that. once were done with obamacare, once it is done, and it will be done, six months from now, they are going to work with us, i believe they are going to work with us as we move into our phase three, we dont have choice, we cant do it under reconciliation. we know we get n...

Three, thats when we are to remove that stateline restriction. the problem is, what do you need in phase three, you need 60 senate votes in phase three. youre never going to get 60 votes. >> i dont know if i would agree with that. once were done with obamacare, once it is done, and it will be done, six months from now, they are going to work with us, i believe they are going to work with us as we move into our phase three, we dont have choice, we cant do it under reconciliation. we know we get n...

Or youre going to allow it just to continue. because you heard the president and ive got to give the president a lot of credit. he has worked with everyone. i spent an hour and a half in the white house with him. he has listened changed things and actually helped the process and i think at the end people have to realize this is part of moving forward and he wants to get this done to move on to tax reform and im hoping others will come on board an vote as well. >> if it does not come to a vote or...

>> new mexico one congressman meadows changed his own rule a bit, lets hear from his most recent set of comments. >> we are making great progress. we are not there yet. we are willing to work as late as it takes tonight and hopefully at least make sure that any unresolved issues get some resolution. >> and one of the congressmans colleagues, jim jordan, republican of ohio, and he had some very strong words today. >> this bill was rolled out three weeks ago. we were told it was a binary choice. t...

Optimistic. >> we want to see the agreement. one of the concerns has been the bill was rolled out three weeks ago. there were no hearings where you had witnesses and no amendments offered to the legislation and called initially a binary choice. if theres agreement we want to see the language first and make sure it does what needs to be dup. im an american so im always optimistic but theres no agreement and we wont be supportive until we see it. >> ed: youre an american as well as am i and youre ...

>> new mexico one congressman meadows changed his own rule a bit, lets hear from his most recent set of comments. >> we are making great progress. we are not there yet. we are willing to work as late as it takes tonight and hopefully at least make sure that any unresolved issues get some resolution. >> and one of the congressmans colleagues, jim jordan, republican of ohio, and he had some very strong words today. >> this bill was rolled out three weeks ago. we were told it was a binary choice. t...

Out three weeks ago and didnt allow any witnesses to testify in the hearings and no amendments were allowed to be offered except the managers amendment which is a leadership amendment and only makes technical changes and said its a binary choice which is not the way the process is supposed to work. youre right. our job is to do what mark meadows do. do what we told the american people we were going to do when they gave us the privilege to serve. this bill does not repeal obamacare and why we are...

Theres a lot of this publicly putting people on the spot. as guy said calling for the vote and saying this is it. this is your binary choice. that sends a message. >> well, it does. the stakes are quite high. trump isnt really negotiating within the policy space. one of the most striking things is how little anybodys talked about the policy. its a patch. this is a lame effort that keeps obamacare essentially alive long enough to deflate it at a safe pace. the objective of this legislation is to ...

>> no, you are misinterpreting me. when we bring this to a vote, thats when it becomes a binary choice. until we bring it to the floor we were always making improvements we are legislating. were not actually doing this behind the scene. we are listening to people and the president is right. a presi who is rolling up sleeves, very quick learning on health care, business guy came to presidency, now helping us make sure that we bridge differences with members, who are bringing constructive ideas so...

Binary choice until we bring the bill to the floor we are always making comrochlths, there is one word to describe that is going on legislating not doing this, behind-the-scenes and ringing some bill making people vote for it we are listening to people the president is right. we never had -- i am very excited we have a president, who is rolling up sleeves, very quick learning on health care, business guy came to presidency, now helping us make sure that we bridge differences with members, who ar...