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Lets get to obamacare. the media savoring the republican dilemma replacing the program backed by paul ryan and praised by president trump. >> the republican healthcare plan has an identity crisis because the republican party has an identity crisis when it comes to ideology. >> they will end up owning the problems obamacare has. >> its far from perfect. it must be fixed. howie: how much is the media enjoying this? >> they are loving it. i think the criticism you just showed is valid. if you talk ...

Telling him. howie: last weekend the president tweeted about barack obama tapped his wires. he acted like nixon in watergate. you and sean spicer and others have been careful not to endorse that position. is that a difficult position for you? >> im not in a difficult position. the president called upon the house and senate intelligence committee to add this piece to the investigation to their existing investigation about russia and they after he greed to do that. well make findings when the inve...

Care reforms that we as conservatives have been arguing for and fighting for for years. chet. >> [ inaudible ]. >> i dont think so. let me just give you a list of whats in here that conservatives should be excited about. number one, the bill repeels obamacare. number two, it repeels the obamacare taxes which is a massive tax relief for families for the cost of health care. it repeels the obamacare spending like the medicaid expansion and the obamacare subsidies. it repeels the obamacare mandates...

Everybody else. well, today is a new day. and we stand proud with our president, that he supports this bill to move forward, to keep the promise that we made that we would repeal obamacare and replace it to put the power back with the individuals. >> well, good afternoon. i want to thank my colleagues for their work on this, especially the president, the vice-president, secretary price, mr. brady, and the members of our energy and commerce committee, especially our subcommittee chairman, dr. bur...

Of health care. ive been doing conservative health care reform for 20 years, for 20 years we as conservatives have been arguing for equalizing the tax treatment of health care for all americans so we can have a vibrant individual market so we have choice and competition. look, heres -- there is two ways of fixing health care. have the government run it and ration it and put price controls. thats what obamacare does. thats what the left wants. or do what conservatives have been arguing for years,...

It seems to me if they do pass this, which i dont think they will, they are going to end up owning the problems obamacare continues to have without really getting a great deal for it. i think that is why theres been so much push back. >> democrats obviously oppose it. they have the exact opposite problem. they think it takes away too much. >> it takes a huge -- gives a huge tax break to people at the very top, the .1% will get on average a $200,000 tax break. ceos for companies will not get -- t...

Work with our counterparts in the senate and with the trump administration on this plan. i want to thank president trump. i want to thank vice-president pence. and i want to thank secretary price for their support and their hard work in getting us to this repeal and replace point. i also want to thank chairman brady who is going to be joining us in a minute and chairman wall den for their leadership. now this bill will go through the regular order of process in the house. as it does, i encourage...

Being able to regulate health care. phase three, pass those reforms that we believe in, that we think will make it even better, but we know we cant put it in reconciliation because of the 60-vote threshold. thank you very much, everybody. appreciate it. >> we had the republican house leadership talking about the very first steps in their effort to repeal and he roo place obamacare. lets go to phil mattingly also on capitol hill. phil, still the question remains, will republican conservatives, wi...

Did you make that? i did... nt. house speaker paul ryan commenting on the republican plan to replace obamacare. lets take a listen. >> and replace obamacare. it delivers relief to americans fed up with skyrocketing premium ands fewer choices. it moves us away from the broken status quo toward a better patient centered system. that means lower costs for hard working families. it means more choices and competition so that you can buy the plan that you need and that you can afford. it means great...

North lawn. jeff, reporters were briefed by the secretary of the department of health and human services dr. tom price today. and the president just met with more than 20 house republicans. what is the headline from the white house today on obamacare and the repealing of it? >> reporter: he did, jake. the headline, president supports the house gop plan. i came from the east room a few moments ago as we saw there and the president was meeting with a lot of rank and file gop leaders, the people wh...