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From your side, and i know you didnt control all the messaging, it looks like its been all over the place. >> well, with a candidate like john osoff who has kind of a thin résume and even exaggerated parts of that, you do find yourself trying to figure out what you can throw against the wall and what can stick. but i think in the end the people of this district want this to be about whos going to represent them the best. and i think thats going to be cairn handel. i feel confident were going to...

>> we dont know if it will be cheaper because they skipped a major step. >> i dont think it will be cheaper. >> this hasnt been cbo qualified yet, congressional budget office. >> right. >> as messy as the obamacare process was, they were getting it scored along the way so you would be able to see what it costs and what it didnt. with obamacare, there was nothing to compare it against. now you have something to compare this plan to. even our reckoning, its too gentle. there is no possibly fewer p...

Motivation and that frustration, 60 months down the road this could be a game changer. its gng to be a long road regardless even if that frustration keeps up. >> its early on. i was asking how might this help come 2018. ryan, when you look at these 16 states which represent some 130 million odd people across the country, does the republican -- do republicans worry that this activism were seeing after two weeks will translate into something bigger, either today or in the coming couple of years? >...

But give it as well and that will take several steps and were not replacing that part of the obamacare process. youre going to see a step by step process where the public and lawmakers understand sort of the foundations theyre letting and we think thats the best way to get affordable health care personalized to you and the details well follow it closely. good luck to you the american people need good outcomes. >> all right allison. >> chris it is an electric day here in washington d.c. just hour...

Should have been doing it. this is you dont run in immediately say well tackle a priority they hadnt even talked about really publicly before. so he had a point and they scattered. you make a good point is that, he has got a lot of power via 140 characters on twitter and i think at times he may use that to impose some discipline. but it could spread a lot of disarray within the republican caucus too. >> i think this is leadership issue. the leadership said dont do this. the rank-and-file overrul...

Supreme court replacement for antonin scalia confirmed. that is at the top of the list. paul: okay. >> secondly i think should have a tax reform bill done by the end. year and perhaps some financial reform. paul: dodd-frank, regulatory? >> dodd-frank. look, obamacare was a big issue in the election. the economy was bigger. the republicans and president trump have got to get the economy restarted. that means doing economic reform, getting the government off the economys back. how they will do tha...

Trump is like taking a two by four to the side of the head of a donkey. that is what his job will be. he will have to do that to shake them up to get them to move. paul: now, what about paying for the wall, bill? that story came out later in the week. there is a wall on the mexican border. he is saying, well, well get congress to pay for it. >> be reimbursed. paul: not the mexicans after all. >> he is saying the mexicans will pay later. paul: sure. >> we have been dubious about this. if youre go...

Should have been doing it. this is you dont run in immediately say well tackle a priority they hadnt even talked about really publicly before. so he had a point and they scattered. you make a good point is that, he has got a lot of power via 140 characters on twitter and i think at times he may use that to impose some discipline. but it could spread a lot of disarray within the republican caucus too. >> i think this is leadership issue. the leadership said dont do this. the rank-and-file overrul...

Businesses complain about, this regulatory overreach and so forth. the process has been corrupted as well, without the proper hearings and time and so forth. so, im, i have a lot of hope. i think its a businessman, donald trump understands the problems of the regulatory burden. he probably dealt with them personally. paul: anything else on the list, joe, that you think, they need to get done? and what do you think they will get done? are you optimistic as these two guys? >> i think they might en...

Trump is like taking a two by four to the side of the head of a donkey. that is what his job will be. he will have to do that to shake them up to get them to move. paul: now, what about paying for the wall, bill? that story came out later in the week. there is a wall on the mexican border. he is saying, well, well get congress to pay for it. >> be reimbursed. paul: not the mexicans after all. >> he is saying the mexicans will pay later. paul: sure. >> we have been dubious about this. if youre go...