Page 2 - Ryan Won T News Today

>> bret: we are live at the u.s. capital, getting ready for some votes. joined by illinois senator tammy duckworth. thanks for joining me. your thoughts on whats happening here and where it goes. >> thats my concern, the problem is i do think the bill will have enough republican votes to pass. the vice president is already here to cast the tie-breaking vote. my concern is what happens in conference. once it passes the senate, it goes back into the house and we lose control of it. theres nothing ...

That off well see what happens but the question is, can he. at the moment weve been talking about republicans been home for two weeks. the reason speaker ryan wont commit to a health care vote is because everyones home for two weeks. he says mr. president wait, i want to go around the room and see if theyve changed their minds, put something on paper, but the president is standing out there, you mentioned this in the last block or couple blocks ago, look at the quinnipiac poll on attributes of t...

Among trump voters. 2% disapprove. hes kept his base with talking about his promises and this is where the tax reform proposal comes in, talking about it. is he setting this up as im trying, congress wont give me what i want. >> i think it seems like he is and in particular when it comes to the senate. theres a lot of discussion in washington of just getting health care through the house and just sort of blaming it on the senate if it fails there. the reality is hes going to have to have some mo...

And they liked what they saw but they hope more members take advantage of being able to engage their constituents in the next recess. >> if you see some of the harpoons that come in at those, well see if that happens. but kudos to those who have the courage to do it and do it consistently. the week ahead is a giant test of the relationship between president trump and pull ryan. during the obamacare debacle the white house and the speaker repeatedly talked of working hand in glove but lets be h...

Until theyre 26 years old and all the things people dont like. its one of the things that make it -- >> rate of increase is better than it was before. >> yeah but if obamacare was work sog great republicans would have left it alone because people would have liked it. when youre trying to deliver goodies and youre not trying to include all the things that make them possible youre in a tough place but at the end of the day they can call this ryans bill. this is the presidents deal and its his firs...

Competing positions here having to do with one bill within the republican party. >> thats the good news for republicans in this. >> the issue is you cut money out of medicaid. poor people cant get care. i dont care if you give them a health savings account or tax credit. if you dont have the means to make up the short fall between what it costs and what youre given, thats the reality and ryan wont own it and we dont hear anybody owning it. >> republicans are trying square a difficult circle here...

Say im going to take action on this and why speaker ryan wont hold a single hearing ton. >> the point is weve known about russian hacking and chinese hacking of institutions in this country for years. it is nothing new. weve seen this before. >> have hearings. >> why all of a sudden now? >> because they tried to -- >> this tried to get donald trump elect the. thats why its a big deal. when the russians come into the united states, steal data and -- its not only that. the intelligence agencies ta...

Communities have now said to his face which russia hacked the election to help him win. i dont understand why he cant simply acknowledge that fact. he had sbes intelligence briefings, he is misstating facts saying they only went after democrats didnt go after republicans. they did go after republicans but didnt release that information. i just downtown understand why he wont date is these facts. the fact that he wont makes me worry. thats why i think its ridiculous we havent had any investigatio...

[ cheers ] [ applause ] just the last couple of minutes at his rally here in florida. trump, you heard him hit house speaker paul ryan there. when we were in panama city last night, we heard donald trump get on stage and speak for 45 minutes of 18 hours stretch which he declared war on the republican party inside the dc belt way if you will. when trump got on stage, unlike when hes online or fox news, he did not say anything about paul ryan or john mccain. he came out today in california smack...

>> well, we believe it should. that is the point. that is -- this is what budgeting is all about, chris. its about making tough choices to fix our countrys problems. >> paul ryan, though, he is not actually repealing all of obama care. he is repealing the part that gives people health insurance but keeping as he has in his other budgets the tax increases in obama care and the medicare cuts. those same medicare cuts that he and mitt romney ran against in the election. he repeals the care part and...