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Cuts to pay for it. makes sense to do the obamacare tax cuts first. pay for them with spending care. then do tax reform next. that was the thinking behind setting it up the way they have. if they need to change that for whatever reason, you could do tax reform first but you would end up leaving the obamacare taxes off the table if you did that. >> dana: early on the show martha was on, she hosts "the first 100 days." she said remember, as you just said as well, the president has surprised before...

The people they can get most. but theres no guarantee they will be able to bring them into the yes column. >> dana: when you look at the odds of whether this bill will pass in an hour, what do you make of it? >> were all relying on reporting these whip counts, which can be good or can be bad. it seems to me when you aggregate all of the information together, it seems like theres a higher probable that this will get pulled than pass. >> dana: let me switch gears with you. theres another big story...

Hearing on monday that was going to include some former obama administration officials and adam schiff, the ranking chair, expressed some displeasure on that. can you offer a last comment on that before i let you go? >> just a short brief comment. i regret that chairman nunes has acted in a fashion which in my opinion undermines his ability to run nonpartisan fair committee hearings. i dont know why his done that, but he has done it. i frankly think we need a commission that is like a 9/11 commi...

Your perspective. youve been on the other side where you are trying to get votes on something thats down to the wire. now that you can sit back and watch them do that on the republican side of things, what do you think will happen this afternoon? >> i think its going to lose. . theres not a confidence on the republican side of the aisle that they have the votes. presidents weighed in. theyve weighed in. it appears, and i dont count the republican votes so i have no idea, but the appearance is th...

A vote on his amendment. they didnt allow that. it would have been one strategy that could have had the rules committee rule that, let him have that on the floor. if the amendment doesnt pass, he would be able to say, i tried to get it. maybe he and other freedom caucus members might be willing to vote for the bill. thats something they could have done. they could still go back and do that defending on if they try to chain strategies here. >> dana: how disastrous is it for the economy or people ...

The gop bill. bending to president trumps demand to hold an up or down vote today. working to bring the conservative wing into the column. vice president pence canceling a trip to stay in washington in soup port of the health care bill. he met with the house freedom cauc caucus. pretty significant to cancel a trip, right, peter? >> it was. and he came here, dana, to the capitol hill club which is not right on campus. the president hangout for republican lawmakers and their supporters. it is righ...

Said that 56% of americans polled think we ought to defeat this republican bill as opposed to 17% who think we ought to pass it. thats a 3:1 margin. so the conclusion that i have reached that this is a bad bill, that we ought to go back to the drawing board. we need to have bipartisan discussions to make the affordable care act work properly. do what trump said he wants to do. if president trump offers a bill that gives every american health insurance that they can afford with better quality, im...

If youre unhappy with obamacare, its not our fault, its the democrats. do you have a preference? >> let me tell you something. youre wrong. if this bill fails, it will be a republican failure. nobody voted for the affordable care act on the republican side. we voted for it. we believed it was good for the american people. we got no help from republicans. so that if they fail today, they are in control of the house. they can pass this bill. they are a deeply divided party. many think this bill th...

In the house. its not an easy thing to do right now, but theyre getting there slowly. >> and our latest according to cnn contacts with the different members of the house, it looked like there were more people leaning no, some 25 leaning no. he can only afford to lose 21 is kind of the max out number to get this health care bill passed but there is still time and ryan, you have said that the do downfall of this ryan bill, dont call it trumpcare, would have a cascading effect on the rest of trumps...

Speaker and what went through the committee this week. it went through the committee, not one single amendment was allowed to be offered. thats not how the process is supposed to work. im not for this plan and theres a lot of opposition in house and senate. >> congressman jordan, thank you, its always good to talk with you, sir. >> thank you, chris. >> coming up we are bringing our sunday group to assess the prospects for passing the repeal and replace bill and whether even if it passes barack o...