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Right? the death by sabotage because you now have tom price who is probably one of the most committed foes of obamacare who exists whos running hhs which has a lot of latitude and youve got this situation where -- and you can tell, its almost -- i have to say, its very bizarre and almost chilling to hear the president talk about how its politically beneficial for him if the health care system explodes in the country hes representing. i guess thats your concern and how you mobilize to make sure t...

To get the votes and couldnt deliver on their own majority. >> chris, obviously youre 100% correct. one would hope that republican leadership would take the lesson and say just as speaker boehner was forced to, recognize that if you cant get that majority you come back and work with democrats to pass a bill that is reflective of the broad needs of the country, democrats, republicans, rich, poor, black, white and everything else and the challenge was they shut democrats out of the process from th...

Bicameral way because i think we have to reform the system and im concerned about the exchanges and about the fact in rural america, as you know, chris, in many places theres only one insurer in the market. >> right. so congressman, you had an interesting trajectory on this bill. you represent a district that went for hillary clinton, you were originally a yes on this bill, youve come on my show to talk about it and defend it and then you were a no on the bill. can you walk me through what chang...

Achieve what has been their single biggest goal for the past seven years and the number-one agenda item of donald trumps presidency. minutes before it was due for a vote today, house republicans, led by speaker paul ryan, pulled the bill that would have repealed and replaced the affordable care act after it became obvious they lacked the votes within their own caucus. despite a pressure campaign by the white house and an ultimatum directly from the president himself at least 34 gop members came ...

A disappointing day for us. doing big things is hard. all of us, all of us, myself included, we will need time to reflect on how we got to this moment, what we could have done to do it better. >> the president, meanwhile, blamed the bills failure on -- wait for it -- democrats who wouldnt join him in destroying obamacare. >> we had no democrat support. we had no votes from the democrats. they werent going to give us a single vote so its a very difficult thing to do. ive been saying for the last ...

Texas that his vote for this bill will result in 61,900 people from his congressional district losing health coverage and care. >> democrat frank pallone was taking names on the floor of the house today and you cant argue with the strategy of reminding republicans how many of their constituents would have been affected by this bill. but just stopping ryan and trump from blowing up obamacare is not enough for my next guest, im guessing. senator bernie sanders from the great state of vermont joins...

Tail as much as they were chasing it. that is because the majority of americans, that im part of, didnt vote for this man, didnt elect him and the majority is still out there. the majority did not want this. by the time of last night, chris, the last poll that showed that only 17% of the american public liked the republican health care plan, 17 -- theyre down to 17% so huge, huge movement there. a lot of people, you saw this in west virginia when you went there with bernie. people are getting it...

Theyre getting that they were lied to. they were held out -- a lot of promises were held out to them that arent going to come through and they saw just how transparent the republicans and trump were with this bill. this was a tax cut bill for the rich not a health care bill. this was an attempt now to try and kill obamacare in actually more cruel ways because theyre going to try to nip and tuck and cut at hhs. theyre going do everything they can to stymie and get in the way of the good that obam...

Which -- i read this account of donald trump talking about the bill and asking his advisers "is it really such a good bill?" because he had no command whatsoever and no curiosity to learn what was in the bill. i wonder what you think about the ways in which people looked at hillary clinton and thought, yeah, maybe she knows details but it doesnt inspire me and the importance of actually knowing what youre talking about when youre trying to pass legislation. >> well, obviously, needless to say, o...

And i read it and i think that that was very challenging and a sobering analysis by cbo. >> youve also said the pressure in your district. you got a lot of calls, you held town halls, to your great credit, unlike some of your colleagues. people showing up, constituents telling you how this would affect them, did that have an affect? >> i certainly tried to listen to all of my constituents. as you know, i did the two town halls, one with 1400 residents, another with 900 and weve had lots of telep...