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Repealing obamacare? the affordable care act clearly needs to be fixed in some way, but the republicans who couldnt stomach a 22 million people losing their care are not going to like a cbo score who says that 30 million or 40 million are going to lose their care based on the aca. the fact is republicans are having a really difficult time keeping their caucus together there are three factions within the senate. the moderate fooaction thats tried to pull the bill to the left. youve got to sort of...

Until the gaggle was complete, this is what we saw from the camera at the white house as sean spicer spoke to journalists. one reporter asked him, why does this have to be off camera? >> what is the reason for not answering questions on camera today? >> the president gave lengthy remarks on camera. he spoke about the v.a. bill. hope you carried it. >> you spoke on camera, too. >> see how much on-camera there is? you reference the comments i made monday. made the same thing in december and januar...

State work period and stay here and work on replace separate. >> et president cents out the tweet floating that idea. you would expect the president would have known or at least vice president pence who went to the hill to try to convince republicans. kellyanne conway who went up. they would know theres not enough support to simply repeal and replace later. how did it get to the point of an official statement from the president? >> not only is there not enough support, but from a legislative rul...

At from our ivory towers and the rest of america, which is left behind by a recession that has helped big cities while its hurt rural areas. this is donald trump taking on the elite that has overlooked the rest of america. at least thats what he wants his base sort of core supporters to think. and this is, this is a big part of that. >> ron? >> can i add, victor, this place where this runs aground a little bit, more than a little bit, because the style is that. hes presenting himself as the atta...

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>> you said back in january right here on "gma" that those who are relying on coverage will not lose it. that promise stands? >> yes, it does. >> reporter: but republicans have been bracing for this. >> so of course, the cbo is going to say, if you are not going to force people to buy something they dont want to buy, they wont buy it. >> reporter: tonight, a growing number of republicans are putting their foot down. saying this plan will not fly. >> do not walk the plank and vote for a bill that...

>> cmon! >> he didnt threaten not to pay social security. i think what is interesting is that debate moved beyond. you have the fact that the house cannot pass the tax increases. they coulded under the pelosi house either. its ridiculous to say the republicans want to starve government. we have a representative government for a reason. people say we want the spending cuts, not just raise debt limit. a development yesterday where senator mitch mcconnell put forward a creative plan, i think will p...

>> cmon! >> he didnt threaten not to pay social security. i think what is interesting is that debate moved beyond. you have the fact that the house cannot pass the tax increases. they coulded under the pelosi house either. its ridiculous to say the republicans want to starve government. we have a representative government for a reason. people say we want the spending cuts, not just raise debt limit. a development yesterday where senator mitch mcconnell put forward a creative plan, i think will p...