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These regulations. at the same time they stress to these lawmakers, wolf, that theyre not going to be undoing obama care overnight, that this repeal process may happen immediately. when i say repealed in the short-term, but over the long-term its going to take many, many months to fashion a replacement bill and at this point the contours of that bill are a mystery. wofrl. >> certainly it. jim accosta reporting. lets get some more on president obamas efforts to rally democrats to save his signatu...

Turmoil thats going on right now, will we get the same old/same old? >> reporter: if anybody had a sure answer to that, they could make a lot of money on k street. the wild card is you dont necessarily now how the president-elect is going to operate, why hes going to come down ideologically. hes not a traditional conservative republican. while they hold a four-seat majority in the u.s. senate and have 247 republicans in the u.s. house, these majorities have actually slimmed down since the 2016 e...

Republicans trying to chart a course for repeeling it. again, unpredictability. were seeing it today with president-elect trump changing the ethics debate. listen here. as the number two house republican and one of the president-elects top advisors explain what is going to happen when the house moves very quickly -- the entire congress moves very quickly to repeal obama care. >> in the repeal process we can do that pretty soon. if you watch, well start taking up the budget. first in the senate f...

Keep in mind the repeal process is actually pretty simple. they have adopt ddone dry runs, this time they dont have a plan on exactly how theyre going to go through with replacing the obamacare so this is going to be a big point of discussion tomorrow. >> tom price, well get to him, hhs secretary, with plans to replace. thank you much. bill press, let me begin with you on the obamacare note, and m.j. set it upper affeperfectly. the president going in for one reason, mike pence in for another. fo...

Sheri writes, dear reverend al, i would like to know how much money and time that i and other taxpayers have spent on the attempted repeal of the aca after 37 times. if we are going to pay them, then they should be using their money and our money on issues that can be worked upon instead of this constant and only symbolic repeal process. i couldnt agree more, sheri. taxpayers should know about this. the gop has spent over 80 hours, two full workweeks trying to repeal the health care care law. an...

American people. for those who didnt vote to repeal last time its a chance for our colleagues to reconsider. >> reporter: a chart is being passed around by some republicans. it shows a new estimate for the cost of the healthcare laws first real decade as being about three times higher than president obamas original estimate. but even if the repeal measure got through the senate president obama has vowed to repeal any -- rather, vowed to veto any repeal measure. martha: that is quite a chart. if ...

Health care reform bill and well bring it to you as soon as it is under way, part of the repeal process and part of the questions that are being raised about that bill. well keep an eye on that. bill: news on that front today, right? tomorrow and next week, too. gitmo. set to get a lot busier, saturday marks two years since the executive order called for the closure of the prison and the administration says the increased traffic at the facility, planning to bring several detainees to justice, us...

Possibly push for it in the senate. >> reporter: in the house there will be 8-15 democrats hole sign on to repealing the healthcare reform acts its serious on a political and policy level. the house republicans and democrats are going to spend the next 24-48 hours talking about this. not only will they repeal it in the house, but thursday, republicans will begin passing legislation to put up replacement reforms. in other words, this isnt just undoing whats been done. they will start doing their ...

Career where i can deploy again so i can serve 20 or more years, because that is all i want to do, serve my country, we hope to help everyone out there going through this process right now. >> victor, nobody right now says -- nobody will argue with the sort of outlook dont ask, dont tell is on its way to being repealed. we know what that process would look like in washington. we know that is heading toward that standard. the president personally looked you in the eye and told you this will get d...

Policy until the repeal process could be completed? couldnt he just do that? >> ive read several reports that he could use executive order somewhere stop loss procedures. but the service members legal defense network and other organizations are promoting is that we do need to change the dont ask dont tell. this law was enacted by congress and the only way to got a perm change and perm solution is congress to repeal the law. that doesnt mean we dont need presidential leadership and courage here. ...