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Can you say it was done openly? with transparency and accountability? without back room deals and struck behind closed doors hidden from the people! hell no you cant! have you read the bill? have you read the reconciliation bill? have you read the managers amendment? hell no you havent! >> that was from 2010, not 2009. several republican lawmakers did not read the latest version of the republican bill. and they did this without the committee. the republicans slammed democrats for offering sweete...

This is facing $39,000 a year. that was a quote for the policy. folks are cheering that there is no alternative to obamacare. they are cheering that people continue to pay that. by the way, that tells you or continues to be an issue. because weve got to address the obamacare drivers that are escalating premiums for everybody and leaving 20 million some people inuninsured. >> is this a moment that you think senate democratss, it looks like wholesale rip it from the roots, do you think you can hav...

Not today. tonight, im obsessed with the republican push for the american health care act using the exact tactics they excureuated democrats for using with the affordable care act seven years ago. in fact, lets take a quick look, heres then speaker nancy pelosi who was slammed by republicans who said she slammed the bi tgh the house too quickly. pelosi was also slammed for saying this. >> but we ve to pas the bill so that you can find out what is in it away from the fog of the controversy. >> we...

Challenging. so that was the argument we were trying to make all along through this thing. >> congressman charlie dent, i know youre on a train trying to get home. i have a feeling ill be talking to you a little later this weekend. joining me now by phone is republican senator bill cassidy of louisiana. and he was an early, senator, you and senator susan collin, you went out there early before anybody with the potential replacement vehicle at the time. and it didnt get the attention of house lea...

Things dont come true, we had job gains since obamacare passed, we didnt see jobs go away. and i know the spin becomes, oh, it was slower job growth. you know, the problem is, over time, if its sort of like the sky is falling, the sky is falling. it comes across as chicken little. and i think the death sprirl stu spiral stuff, that people didnt buy it. >> we have had talented speakers that have made hyper bollic claims, but the facts prove that it is not working as promised. >> let me ask, what ...

Last three weeks from senior staff members, chuck, it was almost like off-handed, hes a deal maker. thats what he does. there was a level of confidence early on in this that he was going to be able to use those skills to get it done. and i think one of the key questions here as he tries to put the blame on nancy pelosi and chuck schumer is, who is going to pay the price? chuck schumer and than se pelosi did not say that on day one they were going to repeal obamacare. not only did the president s...

And the answer is yes. and thats trumps best news of the week. tom, presidents have had a lot of bad weeks, this is a pretty bad one. >> hes got plenty of time to recover, its still early in the process, one thing that republicans need to understand, this bill is never going to become law, its going to change marketedly when it goes through the senate. when you look at obamacare, it lost anyway. this is a party branding exercise to a great extent. >> what does that mean then? that republicans ar...

They have in the house that made this a stumbling block. >> thats interesting. does he -- does he, at this point, is he secretly relieved that the health care is dead? >> he really thinks its dead. until obamacare, in his mind, explodes. thats the word he kept using over and over again. and he started to lay out his message. hes going to keep blaming the democrats, even though this was a republican failure to pass the replacement. >> we shall see. bob costa, always a pleasure, sheriff. thank you...

Would work, is create a sense of urgency. you had to do it now. this needed to be done now. and that is why you sort of have to compromise here. but i wonder if because of some criticisms over time havent been fully true, whether that rang hallow. let me play the best of the attacks. >> obamacare is nothing more than the largest tax increase in the history of the world. >> lets repeal this failure before it literally kills women, kills children, kills senior citizens. >> obamacare is really, i t...

Republicans, at least the trump aides might decide to retain paul. >> theres been tension between donald trump and paul ryan since early in the campaign. i think the question is what does that do to make that worse over time, and i think thats going to affect what president trumps going to be able to do. >> i think under notice today, and it will get more notice over the weekend. the fact is that the town halls have a big impact. >> a huge impact. >> your side organized, especially in the last m...