the message went out and he said this. i don t think it will ever change if it had been postponed a week or four months. this was the time to vote against it. everybody was talked to and it was important we show we can lead rather than continue to say no. bill: you can t always say no. that s ted poe s message. he s a good guy and we served together on the judiciary committee and i worked with him on several issues but i respectfully disagree. the facts don t change. the legislation was still the legislation. the legislation didn t repeal obamacare. it was obamacare lite. the legislation didn t bring down premiums even cbo said premiums would rise the next three and a half years and it didn t unite the republican party or the american people as evidence by the fact 17% supported the legislation. we stopped it to do the country a favor to get back to work and
phone at all hours, he sent his top aides appeared last night around this time, we had reince priebus, bannon, kellyanne conway, we had mick mulvaney, the budget director. today we had the vice president appear. it was a full court press. they gave everything they had. but bottom line, you had some conservatives who had their concerns paid once it was called obamacare lite, hard to get them on board paid you had some moderates come out leonard lance, my hometown, he said some of these policies are popular, i can t just vote to scrap it all. he had a conservative problem and a moderate problem in the rear left complexities. still and that was going on in the halls of congress, at 1600 pennsylvania avenue, was there a sense that this was going to go down, around here, felt for a couple of days now that those folks weren t lined up and thisd still either go down or be dela. no question, i think a lot of
one of the things most important to the people. had they not come out with that particular facet, would they have had better chances? you know, it s difficult to say, because there was also all of the people who said that they didn t want obamacare-lite. a lot of people, congress ryan and his group were squeezed between two points. you have the conservatives, the freedom caucus, who wanted to repeal obamacare. that s what they had run on. that s what they wanted. you know, they just wanted it out, they wanted the essentially health benefits out. they wanted a lot of big changes but on the other side you had the moderates, the tuesday group and others who said we can t go back home and face many people in our districts who lost coverage. what are we going to say to them. so the essentially health benefits was important for them. a lot of districts particularly suffering from substance abuse. the opioid epidemic with the health care to help those people. and moderates felt they couldn
last night around thiske time. we had reince priebus, bannon, kellyanne conway, we had mick mulvaney, the budget director. today we had the vice president up here. it was a full court press. they gave everything they had. but bottom line, youy had conservatives who had theirit concerns. once it was called obamacare lite, hard to get them on board. you had some moderates. leonard lance, my hometown, he said, some of these policies are popular with my constituents. i can t just vote to scrap it all. he had a conservative problem and a moderate problem in the real-life complexities. realize the complexities of this health conference. eric: that was going on in the halls of congress. at 1600 pennsylvania avenue, was there a sense that this was going to go down? around here, felt for a couple of days now that those folks weren t lined up and this could still either go down or be delayed. no question. i think a lot of people here were hopeful. you may have watched the press briefing this
blood, and then you are dead. eric: so the lesson to be learned here, don t accept the first deal, but bring another one? these were donald trump s words. don t be desperate to make a deal. what i would add to that is, we are open to making a deal, and we still are open. conservatives across the w couny want to repeal obamacare. unfortunately, as the house leadership brought this forward, they brought repeal and replace with obamacare lite. nobody ran on that, and no conservative across theep land wants it. we can start over with repeal as a basis and actually some of the ideas, look, i love the fact that speaker brian brightly eric: i watched you guys out there saying, let s repeal now, there is bicameral supporty for repealing obamacare. but what do you do with the people, the 9 or 10 million people that are on obamacare?