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Bit i know about alaska and lisa. when you go to attack those people, you better take two sandwiches because shell eat the first one for lunch and maybe give you the second one back. and not only that, since when did an administration decide to do that kind of threat. were pretty good at that. we used to be good at it. where at least it was quiet and we do it on the napkin instead of wide open and get caught. isnt that right, perry? >> exactly right. >> so when did we start doing that? that is r...

>> one of the issues has been expansion of medication under obamacare, what changes can be made? we know 5 of your colleagues are pushing back opposing the bill, largely because of the expansion of medicaid in there, how do you wind that down to make everyone happy. >> maria, my take is that, the commitment that was made was to repeal and replacement there are two components, that i think were all looking at. does this sufficiently get rid of things that obamacare did that were damaging to healt...

I have a lot to go through. did you screw this up for your republicans colleagues? >> i think we saved the american people from a bad bill. if anyone should be cheering it should be the american people. only 17% of the country approved the legislation. lets get back to work. lets not blame people. lets get back to work and do what american people sent us to do which is repeal the r law. >> bill: what will get you to a yes vote? >> we can start for something we had a year ago that repeals obamaca...

We did extensive markups this week, the ways and means markup took 18 hours, the markup i was in took 27. we had ample time to go through and offer amendments and so foefrt. its mainly making sure everybody knows whats in the bill and whats not in the bill. >> some of your freedom caucus members know whats in it and they dont like it. think it doesnt go far enough in removing what obamacare did. >> it goes as far as we can. kelly was on a few minutes ago and she did a great job explaining how we...

You think the opposite. >> of course. the part that i saw was a couple of times where he communicated directionally with a person. one woman had cancer and was talking about if obamacare was taken away and ted was very compassionate with her and gave the story of his mother who had breast cancer and how her medical care -- she is doing fine now. he was able to convey that he does understand the needs of people for health care and he is compassionate and wants to make sure that whatever is repeal...

Brought to the office personally. a lot of people were talking about how hes going to be remembered for the scandal-free administration he ran, the very ethical approach, the intelligence, the poise. now, those are very ephemeral things. those arent policy thats going to last. a lot of people wondered whether republicans are going to be able to roll back obamacare. somebody referred to the republicans, the dog has now caught the bus. you know, 13 million people have health insurance. can they re...

Sabato. good to see both of you gentleman. ryan, you first, because this has been a cornerstone. repealing and replacing. that has been the mantra. and now he is talking about making modifications. so does this exemplify that its one thing to make campaign promises, its another once youre an elect to see whether you can execute these things? >> well, i think he was vague enough, frankly, about how he defined obamacare and what parts of it he was going to repeal and what he was going to replace i...