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Moving and we have to see how these votes take place. >> well, if bipartisanship to your point is the answer and its also the point that john mccain made yesterday, how can you do it? >> well, first give up reconciliation and this process. this bill came to the floor without one day of hearings, with no markup in committee. let us have committee hearings, let us use the regular committee process, and im quite confident that youll see democrats and republicans come together with ways that we can ...

Assistance, we put together what we thought was a good plan. now, i hope the senate is going to be able to do the same. but i would urge the democrats both in the senate and in the house that once we get to a conference committee, once we get together, lets recognize the system that many of the folks i serve with helped to create is failing millions of americans and we have to fix it. >> so congressman, you talk about the democrat participation in this process. i want to play for you what connec...

Were locked out. the majority leader elected to forge a bill in secret and bypass the committee process entirely. no public hearings. no open debate. no opportunity for the minority to amend the bill or even read it. no opportunity for the minority to amend the bill or even read it. before it emerged from the leaders office. their plan all along was to keep their bill hidden for as long as possible, evade scrutiny, hide the truth from the american people, and then jam the bill through in the dea...

Graves is moving forward. the other one tom coles bill, labor health and humes services. both on the house floor with open rules and both going through the regular committee process now. if democrats want to improve health care, these are the two bills that deal with the financial ends of obamacare and the democrats should be, should be putting on positive amendments and ideas and so they do have a vehicle. i believe respectfully to quote his own words that mr. schumer is copping out on this. if...

>> there is no will in congress to work with each other. they all mouth it. youve been there. they all say nice things. joe has to say it because hes from west virginia. >> i want you to respond. hes throwing your name out there saying its basically all mouth on the part of the democrats, no action in response. >> ive known chris, we work together as governors, and he knows that im sincere. he knows he can always talk to me and work together and well always try to find that middle. these sound b...

Point. and then they will work backward. the health committee which is the health committee that would oversee this bill had it been done through the normal committee process announced today they plan to hold hearing. at least on shore up the insurance markets which is one of the sort more urgent needs of anything that would be a repeal or fix of obamacare. so its clear at least some people in the senate dont intend to follow president trumps visitor his call to let obamacare collapse on its own...

And roy blunt, a member of the leadership, essentially said what we heard the president say, look, we think were heading toward a normal committee process where we have to start getting 60 votes for things. maybe that helps explain the presidents tweet about changing the filibuster, because the reality is all of this health care conversation has not been around that 60-vote plesh shoulder. its been around the 50-vote threshold. perhaps they are at the point where theyre having conversations seri...

Attempt. it faltered in the house, the house persevered, they did its job. now it looks like casey it probably right theyll fail to get to enough votes for the motion to proceed to get on the bill in the senate. i think this wail probably lead to this being put on the back burner, while trying to work with democrats, go through the committee process and make progress on health care reform that way. >> what happened to them needing the savings from health care reform to get to taxes? >> there is ...

Able to come to a decision up until now while the president has all this political capitol wou capital would be able to do so later on? >> that is a fantastic question capital would be able to do so later on? >> that is a fantastic question. and they dont have that answer after seven years of discussing what obamacare replacement would look like. but that is part of the reason you are seeing those three senators and even john mccain at home recovering from surgery to respond to this. he said we ...

Safety net program thats been on the books for 50 years. the medicaid program, without having a single hearing to evaluate what the consequences are going to be. that doesnt mean that there arent problems with the medicaid program that need to be addressed, it doesnt mean that the aca doesnt have serious flaws. it does. thats why we need to go through the normal committee process and get input from people on both sides of the aisle. thats what would produce the kind of legislation that we need. ...