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Then President Obama had seven new cabinet level officials confirmed. Trump only as of right now has two. Do you think that youre going to be able to stop some of his nominees, or are you just trying to slow down the process . Well, let me say this. First, this cabinet is unusually unique and a lot different than others. We call it the swamp cabinet, billionaires and bankers. The number of wealthy people, the number of people rife with Conflicts Of Interest and the number of people who have disa...

What taking away one of these drugs does is makes it more painful and tortured this is a great example of politics run muck in the name of a culture war that has become so extreme, its lost touch with the majority of americans. they deserve to pay a very high price for what they are doing to the women of america right now it is up to people watching this and hearing about thesebusy, re and get out there and vote the younger generation can save up, but theyve got to suit up >> its culture war ext...

It had independent elements, ross per oh elements. >> what was that message you had for the president? >> what was the message? >> yeah. >> the message was to be like democrats, to be anti-government cronyism. >> learn how government works. >> to operate the goth as a business. and thats, you know, somebody was talking about today, one of the major problems well look back in this first year is the transition. they didnt really concentrate on the transition until after they won the election of th...

Replace obamacare first. eric: talking about trying to come together and agree with each other, how much can the republicans say that they will have to try to replace obamacare with something that could pass the senate? reporter: its hard to tell because they keep missing these self-imposed deadlines to come up with a new plan. a group of ten republican senators is asking the majority leader, mitch mcconnell, to give them more time to work and cancel the august resource currently scheduled in a ...

Obamacare. >> there are some pretty easy fixes to that coming in the media has not talked about that. they mention it occasionally like being able to purchase insurance over state lines. that would be great, and i come from a health care background, so i know something about that. but i think we have to look at the lobbyist and what their influences are coming and how much they are going to make on this parade i said next to a guy on a plane that said when this goes into effect, he is going to m...

Reform and then we move to eric repeal and replace. i think it would have gotten him off to a much better start, easy win, nothing -- you know, success. instead we are in this -- >> harris: abby, part of what im reading about the timing is that you had just come out of enrollment period and now you are facing another one. right? >> yeah. >> harris: trying to get into the sandwich. mandated fees and trying to change the scope of things. i can sort of understand why they tried with obamacare first...

On both sides for doing it, there was they felt a political imperative to do obamacare first. we saw how that turned out. one of the consequences of how they set this up its aly bit procedural down in the weeds but they structured it so this health care thing was supposed to be the budget for this year and its very procedurally difficult for them to move on to tach reform. so theyre going to have to do a lot of juggling to figure that out. its supposed to be part of the next budget. simply that ...

With the majority of the vote and wasnt elected on an agenda. with president clinton he could fall back on what he was going to do for the middle class, for president obama in his early days -- >> you dont think he was elected with an agen d. >> repeal and replace obamacare. >> so that it worked for everybody. he was not able to do that so now what do you do? so i just think that thats what -- that is -- im not sure -- they probably need more experienced staff but thats not what their ultimate p...

And we move forward. >> you think they own it. you retweeted president trumps knock on conservatives who he says saved obamacare, but is this where the republican party is now, you have to reject a pretty significant group and an influential group of your own party and try to make nice with the democrats? is this an acknowledgement that the republican party is split, is broken? >> well, look, i think its important to note theres about 30 of these folks. theres 200 other members of the house. wer...