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The house speaker has committed to you that she will bring this up for a full house vote? >> well, when we introduce this legislation we have the support of all the leadership. we maintain that continuance today. we are on a two track. we think the president can offer an executive order. what the legislation mean. it is a commission to study slavery. and develop reparation proposals and obviously over this weekend, i had a lot of time to speak to americans. i was at aston villa. that was with ge...

Him look incredibly weak on the foreign stage. >> and its like he has a hammer in his hand, and he keeps banging his hand. doing one thing after another, and then he holds up az hand and goes why does my hand hurt so much? like on health care. he has done everything possible to lose one health care vote after another. pressuring republicans, having steve bannon, my god, what a stupid thing to do. having steve bannon going up insulting house members, threatening house members. they finally pass l...

Something thats grais great. were going to repeal health care, replace that garbage known as obamacare. >> im going to ask congress to send me a bill to repeal and replace, finally, obamacare. its a zafrtd! under senate rules that bill can be passed with 51 votes -- 51. not a big deal. especially if we hold the senate, and i think we will. >> candidate trump was right. republicans did hold the senate in last years election, but he was wrong, that repealing obamacare could be quick and would be e...

Saying even the president himself has called this legislation mean. imagine how effective that is in a district where this bill already is pulling in the 20s. -- polling in the 20s. it seems even with all that, and jay, correct me if im wrong, it seems like this thing is going to pass because of inertia. no one wants to be the one to stop the repeal and replace. they want to pass the buck. the house passed it to the senate. the senate probably wants to get it out of its chamber. is it possible i...

Conservative choices. they dont trust the president to be disflipped enough to help guide them through this process. and if you think back to the house bill, president trump convened a rose garden ceremony, something thats basically unprecedented, fot overnot over that passed the congress but over a bill that passed the house. just six weeks later in conversations with senators he called that piece of legislation mean. so its not surprising that republicans on capitol hill would not trust the wh...

Work these things out. i dont think the health care issue is dead. there is real districts that are collapsing. the market for these exchanges is collapsing. peoples rates are going -- their insurance premiums are going up and duct iblgs are skyrocketing, and their choices are getting less and less and thats why youre going to watch these things start to happen around the country. im going to predict by the end of the year everybody is going to be back at table. its dead for now. its not dead fo...