Procedural Obamacare News Today

Democrats to begin something of a protest on the floor of the senate. organized by minority leaders, senator schumer, democratic senators are expected to take part in a sort of talk-a-thon lasting until some time around midnight tonight. their goal is to state their support for obamacare and highlight the fight within the republican party on the repealing process. repeal and replace has been the republican line on obamacare for years, but theres a debate right now in the party on whether repeal ...

Bringing release to those who need it. >> mcconnell wont commit to how long the gap will be between repeal and replace. other republicans say repeal and replace has to happen at the same time. that includes senator rand paul who voted against the first procedural obamacare vote wednesday because he doesnt want to proceed with repeal without a plan for replacement. paul says president-elect donald trump supports the idea to repeal and replace obamacare on the very same day. joining me now is cong...

How wonderful the affordable care act is -- >> sure. >> its time that we have real discussions on what the replacement might look like. so i ask my senate colleagues, both on both sides of the aisle, lets get into real discussions about how were going to make sure we serve the american people. >> congressman, let me ask you about another topic, medicare and social security frankly. heres what reince priebus said on that issue this weekend. >> you think think president-elect trump wants to meddle...

Look at the promises surrounding obamacare? >> its definitely a mixed bag overall he did get a promise kept for delivering health care reform. but in some of the nitty-gritty such as expanding medicaid. it wasnt congress, it was the courts that said it was up to the states to decide if they wanted to expand medicaid as part of the affordable care act. so obama didnt get all that he wanted with obamacare, but some experts told us for a longer piece that we wrote in our obamacare report, thats oka...

Conflicts of interest. >> well talk about it on wednesday. >> can you talk about the role you expect jared kushner to have in your administration. >> who? >> well talk about that on wednesday. thank you very much, folks. see you then. >> is everything going to be in place? >> well talk about it on monday. >> bottom line it seems to be theres something happening on wednesday. president-elect donald trump taking questions from reporters at trump tower this afternoon. he deflected most of them sayi...

What happens with the trump presidency too. >> president obama delivered on the promise to bring health care to millions. 20 million at last count, but in aspect of that campaign promise led to the 2013 lie of the year. if you like your health care plan, you can keep it. i want to play what he said about the republican plan to throw out the affordable care act. >> i am saying to every republican right now, if you, in fact, can put a plan together that is demonstratively better than what obamacar...