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Of obamacare envisioned this future. its not what we want for the american people. i wish we had the consensus needed to pass and replace it. we dont have that right now. >> what about the political capital that was burned today. you have to keep the government open. the debt ceiling. you still want tax reform. you said this part was integral. how much capital did you burn on this today and how does that injure those other bills? >> our members know we did everything we could to get consensus. t...

But as speaker ryan has said, weve got to pull together and govern and reach that consensus. >> neil: all right. some have blamed -- on fox business, they said the president with the best of intentions might have complicated this healthcare bill when you talked about a remeal effort first, convinced that would easily be signed. because you have a republican president and then you could have done the replace vehicle. what do you think of that? that he -- again, with the best of intentions with tr...

And defunding planned parenthood on top of that those were huge wins on the conservatives. some couldnt get there. we cant linger on that and have to move forward and work to find consensus on tax reform. >> neil: have you given up on finding consensus on repeal and replace? >> yeah. i dont think its there. i dont see solutions that are better than this or that pull the conference together. so the president made it clear hes moving on as well. lets do that. >> neil: i know its easy to say this n...

Vote to repeal obamacare once the president-elect takes office. >> every mandate, every regulation, every single tax has to go, then well have a chance to have the market work and thats part of the replacement is simple getting rid of the repeal-- or getting rid of obamacare with repeal and bring down costs and provide affordable health care to families acros c. >> and yesterdays vote put pressure on republicans to what theyre going to replace the affordable care act with. and insurance company ...

Not a stop gap solution but a long-term strategy that gives the world confidence in a low-carbon future. here in paris, lets secure an agreement that builds in ambition where progress paves the way for regularly updated targets, targets that are not set for each of us by by each of us. taking into account the differences that each nation is facing. >> there you have whats going to be the main message from president obama of the united states, that progress can be made but then you heard that las...

Congressional democrats are happy. >> rebeccrebecca, it shows with biden in the race hillary clintons numbers go up more significantly than bernie sanders but if biden is speaking as he does and suggesting there are problems with hillary clinton, that would be a problem for her. >> i would be surprised to see joe biden go out there on the campaign trail and attack hillary clinton directly. hes basically been trying to nudge her in a certain direction. joe biden has worked his entire career as so...

>> good morning, jose. whats interesting to note a couple of things that came out of this meeting. this huge end of year eu summit. eu leaders all gathered together. one thing, they could hardly keep smirks from their keep their smirk from the face. they see the sanctions are working. the sanctions were worth it. they decided to ban investment in crimea. that takes place tomorrow on saturday. and, of course, you have to remember were talking about the e.u. here. we have 28 separate countries, 28...

An urgent video conference with european leaders was focused on finding consensus on a tougher line with russia. at a news conference in seoul, the president said the u.s. is going ahead and teeing up broader sanctions against moscow. >> whats also important is laying the ground work so that if and when we see even greater escalation, perhaps even military incursion by russia into ukraine, that were prepared for the sort of sanctions that would have even larger consequences. >> the warning comes...

Turnnow the primaries which means you are leaving it to the very most partisan people to vote. and they tend to be the ones that are excited by the red meat issues and those are the issues not most important to peoples everyday lives. they are the social issues. were not talking about the economy the way we need to. we dont have an energy policy. you can go down the list of things we need to solve. and compromise has become a really dirty word. but if you go back to our founding fathers, finding...

Are playing to the base. but the problem is the base is a small percentage in each of the parties. the issue that we have, the american people started turning off because they are so disgusted about what is going on. thats why independents are passing republicans or democrats. youre leaving it to the very most partisan people to vote. they tend to be the ones that are excited by the red meat issues. those are the issues that are not the things that are most important to peoples everyday lives. t...