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Speaking media. she comes from fox news so she will be able to do a lot of media in singapore and represent the u.s. there. it is sort of how the white house wants to portray this, not as necessarily another shuffling of staff that indicates weakness operationally on the part of the nsc, but just h.r. mcmaster starting to want to bring his own team underneath him. >> you agree, josh? >> yes, i think k.t. has been on the way out for several weeks and they were trying to find a soft landing for he...

>> how confident are you the bill will pass? if it doesnt pass, is there a plan b? >> theres no plan b. theres plan a and plan a. were going to get this done. im not -- we dont -- were not looking at a plan b. we have plan a. its going to pass. >> you said theres no -- theres plan a. >> right. >> at this point, is there an acknowledgement that perhaps there does need to be a plan b? >> no. plan a. the presidents plan is to pass the bill tonight, get it on to the senate and sign a bill once it go...

Sean spicer asked many times about is there a plan b. he had this to say. >> if it doesnt pass, there is a plan b? >> no. there is no plan b. theres a plan a. we are not looking at plan b. we have plan a. it will pass. we will go from there. >> is there acknowledgment of a plan b? >> no. >> what is the plan? >> it will pass. thats it. >> whether or not pushing the vote to today is plan b is hard to figure. to christines point, eugene. if this fails today, what then? mark meadows says whether the...

Taking a card away from senators. people are saying this was an ultimatum that president trump established. no, this is the opening salvo. this goes to the senate. the senate is going to modify this bill, not going to accept eliminating essential benefits. its going to come back to the house. so this is going to be an ongoing drama, although i do believe that the house republicans will muscle this through today. i think this goes on for weeks, if not months. >> oh, my gosh, thats quite a predict...

Andly vote for a bill to replace obama care that i think is an improvement. is this that bill? i think we can make it better. if it happens, if it doesnt pass, its not tend of civilization. we can move on to tax reform, maybe come back but the ultimate result will be that a small group of republicans joined with the democrats to keep obama care alive. forget the politics. that will be terrible for the american people. thats majority rules. >> dana: i think everybody on the senate side should be ...

>> big day. pete: if healthcare, if obamacare is not repealed. if that vote goes down, the trump administration says we are moving on to tax reform. a lot of people saying maybe this is where should have gone first, what do you think? >> the move toward cutting taxes is not going to be interrupted regardless of todays vote. if its a yes vote, fine, okay. then well get to tax reform on course. if its a no vote, then, mr. trump says, we will keep obamacare, were still going towards tax reform. the...

Intransigent group. >> he has a way of coming back. if it is not that, eugene, two questions. who gets the blame here? is it paul ryan? the freedom caucus? then, what stops them from coming back and trying it again in a week or two weeks or a month? >> i dont think they will not retry it if it doesnt pass. i think people will retry it. republican lawmakers if this doesnt work. they spent eight years criticizing it. >> what about the blame? who gets it? >> the right thing is for the president to ...

Should the speaker resign? should paul ryan resign as speaker of the house? >> absolutely not. this has been a great team effort on the republican behalf. at the end of the day i dont think thats necessary. the president has made a very, very strong case as to why everything -- >> if it doesnt pass, can the president still have confidence in the speaker to deliver his caucus if it doesnt? >> i understand the question, eric, but im not thinking that way. >> fascinating exchange there from fox new...

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 ...

>> no, not at all. >> if the bill doesnt pass, should the speaker resign? should paul ryan resign as speaker of the house? >> absolutely not. this has been a eat am effort on the republican behalf. at the end of the y i dont think thats necessary. the president has made a very, very strong case as to why everything -- >> if it doesnt pass, can the president still have confidence in the speaker to deliver his caucus if it doesnt? >> i understand the question, eric, but im not thinking that way. >...