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Obamacare appeal ask replace. something to the nature of lets change obamacare. thats a lot to do in one week. you want to vote on health care. you havent scored a new bill. you havent whipped the votes. it is a lot to do and i think they want to demonstrate a lot of accomplishments. >> why havent they learned this? whether it is good or bad, you have to have it out there. scoring with the votes and figure it out. dropping tax reform like this in the middle of the week, were looking at not shutt...

This is a republican house that voted more than 60 times to repeal obamacare. they couldnt bring themselves to vote once on trumpcare. and theyre basically saying never mind. were going to move on, which is extraordinary. do you wonder whether or not he did have his heart in this despite what he told the voters over and over again that he did not have passion for this he clearly did not have knowledge of this. and his admission to bob costa hey, who knew that politics was different than real est...

>> and i never said i guess im here what, 64 days. i never said repeal and replace obama care. youve all heard my speeches. i never said repeal it and replace it within 64 days. i have a long time. >> still with us, chris jansing here in our studios in new york. also joining us charlie sykes, host of the public road program indivisible and msnbc contributor. also a political analyst, michael steele. michael, im coming for you because. >> dont do it. dont do it. >> heres why. you did used to run ...

Hurting under obamacare. and whats probably most troubling is the worst is yet to come with obamacare. the president gave his all in this effort. did he everything he possibly could to help people see the opportunity we had with this bill. hes been fantastic. still, weve got to do better and we will. i believe that. this is a setback, no two ways about it, but it is not the end of the story. obamacare is the law of the land, will remain the law till its replaced. we didnt have quite the votes to...

Party to a governoring party comes with growing pains. were feeling those growing pains today. we came really close today but we came up short. i will not sugar coat this. this is a disappointing day for us. doing big things is hard. im proud of the bill that we produced. it would make a dramatic improvement in our health care system. and provide relief by people hurting under obamacare. and whats probably most troubling is the worst is yet to come with obamacare. the president gave his all in t...

That deck, he said the bucks stops here. i didnt see a president who said the buck stops there. i was struck about two things about that performance. number one is, donald trump looked relieved. he did not look angry. i think thats a tell hes saying maybe this is the best thing that would happen. the other extraordinary thing and i think you pointed this out, that after seven years of railing and campaigning against obamacare and saying what a disaster it would be, how quickly the republicans an...

Order to achieve what he wanted to achieve. so there was actually a strategic reason to want health care first. without that, it takes tax reform a heavier lift than it would have been. >> caitlin, dealing with all this as a breaking story today, have you had time to count up the tally what this means? i should say the toll what this has done to the celebration today? >> i think it is a major blow. theres no way else to describe it. trump campaigned as the master negotiator that could go in ther...

>> on my first day, im going to ask congress to send me a bill to immediately repeal and replace disastrous obamacare. whats the first thing youre going to do? well, were going to work immediately on repealing obamacare. >> on my first day in office, i am going to ask congress to send me a bill to immediately repeal and replace, i just said it, obamacare. >> my first day in office, im going to ask congress to put a bill on my deck, getting rid of this disastrous law and replacing it with reforms...

Expansion, republican governors were fighting for this when you had 17% of the american people saying yeah, lets change obamacare, we like what theyre doing, you know that there is something thats working right. there are going to have to be changes. there are going to have to be adjustments that are made. this was not it. and the dooms sayers, i think just as are pretty much in the same category as people who say this is the end of the trump presidency which is also not true. it was a very, ver...

>> my first day in office, im going to ask congress to put a bill on my deck, getting rid of this disastrous law and replacing it with reforms that expand choice, freedom, affordability, youre going to have such great health karat a tiny fraction of the cost. and its going to be so easy. >> candidate trump said over and over again, repealing and replacing obamacare would be something for day one of his presidency. keep that, what you just saw in mind as you listen to what the president said toda...