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Universal care and once you have that, thats the reason why the quinnipiac poll had the reform, the ryan reform had 17%. thats pathetic. thats lower than anything ever in obamacare. what were going to get is in time. democrats are going to go to single payer and republicans are going to try to get a stripping away of government control and i thin its time is slipping away. the zik in the country has changed. >> brett: kristin, is repeal officially dead? are we dealing with fixing obamacare or do...

So, the obamacare piece blowing up on the tracks might also significantly impact this next piece which is why they were trying to do it in the sequence that they at least attempted to. >> brett: charles? >> there is one thing they have learned from this healthcare bill. when you come to a really difficult issue, and there were several on the healthcare that doomed it, the really hard one in tax reform is the border tax. there is a real split among republicans, a philosophical one. they have to w...

District your no vote responsible for nancy pelosi being happy. at this point when it comes to other things are there enough sticks to keep people in line to get consensus on it. >> brett: thats great point. you are not going to get to the right of mark meadows in his district in north carolina. you are not. >> other piece is obamacare repeal and replace really gone? is this not happening anymore? seven years of promises. >> brett: to that point, jim jordan a member of the house freedom caucus p...

Than a bad deal. that seemed to be the message here at the white house where obviously they simply didnt have enough support on capitol hill. make no mistake about it regardless of the spin, this is a major set back for the president. >> thank you very much. >> what was once soaring on the michelle today finally optimism gave way to the major initiative the effort to repeal and replace the affordable care act, obamacare had fallen to defeat. >> we all learned a lot. we learned a lot about loyalt...

This, and they saw that quite frankly the premiums, the increase in premiums, thats a major problem with obamacare with were not going to be addressed. they saw that the elderly, senior citizens that the lower income and a lot of services for women and services that are needed couldnt stay in place and have the financial end game that they wanted. >> brett: we should point out that g.o.p. does not stand for get old people. just to point that out. >> i would agree with you there. i have a lot of ...

Millions more people being actively hurt by this law. they hoped republicans would come and save them. and so far that is not happening. >> brett: let alone small businesses who can r. concerned about the taxes who dont expand beyond 49 workers because they dont want to be rolled into this. i asked the senate minority leader chuck schumer about what they would do if they had the negotiation about obamacare. >> they would have toen compromise wets republicans. we would give the state insurance co...

Breaking his word to working people. so having other voices, i get the opportunity to speak to you folks all the time. i think made a great deal of sense. >> senator chuck schumer of new york, the minority leader in the u.s. senate. thank you very much for being part of our coverage tonight. >> nice to talk to you folks. thank you. >> senator, in keeping of this segment of only talking to people named chuck, chuck todd, our political direct wror, is standing by in washington. chuck, we havent ...

The average person more and give them less benefit. you know, it may help the insurance companies. it fits their, quote, free market ideology, but it is the opposite of everything trump talks about. >> senator, with respect to the former two-term governor of kentucky, why didnt you give the democratic response? its been said time and time again the resistance is going to start in the senate with you. >> well, i have plenty of time to address the american people. the governor of kentucky did a fa...

At noon. you probably got a drift of it yourself. >> yes. >> trump was going to go ahead and offer basically a chance for people who came into the country without papers, without documentation to if they werent felons they could stay here legally. that was a big development. it turns out he couldnt do it tonight. he couldnt say what he said he was going to say. what do you make of that? >> no. chris, three weeks ago he said it and then his government, the people around him, the right wingers sai...

Harden the republican partys resolve on this issue. we actually told people we were going to do something on this issue. weve got to do something. but what theyve floated thus far is dead in the water. there are enough republicans, just republicans against what necessary floated this past friday that it is dead and thats their best effort at a compromise measure to bring together even just their own caucus. they are nowhere near being able to repeal let alone replace the affordable care act, and...