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Complete hoone of the most fascinating splits what is happening with republicans on the hill and what is happening with republicans in new york and trump tower. >> the president-elect is up this morning with new comments about this debate on twitter. he writes the democrats, led by head clown chuck schumer, know how bad obamacare is and what a mess they are in. instead of working to fix it, they do the typically political thing and blame. the fact is obamacare was a lie from the beginning. keep ...

Speakers office was pushing them to go ahead and get on board with just the repeal and take care of replacement down the road. but yesterday afternoon, i heard thats not their approach at all. they still believe they need to build up the bill in its entirenot create what they call some sort of frankenstein monster that is trotted out for political purposes, but build an all-encompassing replacement for obamacare and put that out as the repeal vote is. you even heard that, though, from the vice p...

On a plan to replace it two years from now and saying nothing is changing with any family over the united states? >> well, it goes back two things like the medical device tax, the health insurance tax on insurance company. the mandate will be repealed immediately. those are going away but that does not impact the individual that you indicated has got someone with a chronic disease that needs treatment. the repeal is going to be dealing with some of these owners, parts of obamacare that have been...

Far be it for me to give advise in washington, democrat or republicans, but if were in the republican administration the new one or working with democrats in the senate id reach out to governors across the country and align them with whatever plan i was willing to advance or hope to advance because they are the ones on the front lines with medicaid expansion. they are the ones who the citizens in their own state benefiting from aspects of obamacare and affordable care act and said on this show a...

Aisle. with us from chill is senior member of the ways and means committee democratic congressman richard neil of massachusetts. thank you for being with us this morning. >> good morning. >> youre a supporter of the affordable care act. i dont know if you heard what congressman collins said there but what do you make of the general argument to get rid of obamacare as soon as possible whether they have something to replace it with? >> sound to me the rhetoric has not caught up with the plan. i ha...

He has a history with putin. he has arm wrestled with putin. >> really? >> literally at a bar in d.c. and this is who he is. >> thats quite a way to end it with the arm wrestle. joining us from buffalo, new york, member of the trump transition team and executive committee republican congressman chris collins. congressman, great to have you with us this morning and thanks for being here. >> good morning. >> lets talk about obamacare. the repeal and replacement of it. you say we are voting to repe...

His democratic base. he is strengthening chuck schumer with the people you see around him right now, the people that he works for in the united states senate and with nancy pelosi. so he is actually playing into chuck schumers hand and making him stronger. the best way to hurt chuck schumer is to say, i like this guy, can get along with this guy. yeah, maybe he is saying some nasty things about me but i can make deals with him. >> i totally agree and i think on infrastructure and tax reform that...

Administration understand and they understand that not only will measures not, quote, crying out for relief from obamacare, they certainly know who the republican base is but they also understand where they won, wisconsin, michigan, ohio, pennsylvania. there are a lot of working class voters that drive around with pickup trucks, with trump make american great again bumper stickers on them that have obamacare. and what they see as, yes, some problems with obamacare, they also see that costs are g...

We are going to bring in individuals. we are going to bring in medical groups to have, through our hearings, both on energy and congress, on my health subcommittee and also on ways and means, to make sure we do not screw this up. >> this is harold ford. good morning, congressman. >> good morning. >> what you are saying sounds very different and far more appealing than those who are serious about this policy. youre saying that nothing will happen until 2019 to anyone that has any aspect of the af...

Replace obamacare and that was our message today and it will be our message on capitol hill. >> the health care system has been ruined, dismantled under obamacare. the answer here is not to ignore the problem. we will help americans crying out for relief from obamacare. >> why still no plan to replace it? >> we, we have a plan to replace it and plenty of ideas to replace it and youll see as the weeks and months unfold what we are talking about replacing it and how to get better choices with lowe...