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Didnt have the votes for that. all right, much more to come on the gops health care defeat. what the setback means for president trumps agenda going forward and the future of tax reform. oscar mayer deli fresh mesquite turkey has no added nitrates, nitrites or artificial preservatives. now its good for us all. like introverts. extroverts. (cheering) and even bert. man you gotta try this sandwich. whos just overt. oscar mayer deli fresh. so good!

They want to begin to negotiate some sort of fix, ive heard from democratic sources on the hill they might be open. >> i want to play on how robert costa learned about the republican setback. >> the president called me and said, look, im pulling the bill i made the decision and wanted you to know and he walked through why he thought that and said he didnt blame speaker ryan. it might take away from the conversation, about 15 minutes long, this is a president who is adjusting to washington. obvio...

Republican setback. this is after answering a blocked call. take a listen. >> the president called me and said look, im pulling the bill, i just made the decision and wanted you to know. he walked through why he thought that he didnt blame speaker ryan. is he clearly didnt have thetat trump adjusting to washington, disappointed that his health care vote is not coming up, but self aware that this is a moment for him where he has to react and figure out a way forward on a lot of different front. >...

He does have a tendency to not deal well with setback. i would remind people the 2016 campaign when he lost iowa to ted cruz, he said its because cruz cheated. when he won the electoral college but lost the popular vote, he said its because 3 to 5 million illegal votes were cast. this is someone who does not deal well with adversity, necessarily and does tend to, if past is "prologue," put the blame somewhere else. i always trust members of congress more than i trust myself. congressman kings to...

Very difficult to do without the help of democrats. well, it wasnt exactly repealing obamacare, that isnt exactly a way to reach out to democrats. but he is basically saying, any democrat that wants to come to me with an idea of messing around with obamacare, he may listen. and it may not happen next week or next month, but if hes -- if the lesson hes taken away from this is, he needs to have a better relationship with democrats in congress if hes going to have any hope of doing anything big, we...

Barack obama put pen to paper and signed what became known as blair into law, republicans have vowed to repeal it and replace it. while republicans now control the white house, the senate and the house, the bill was pulled from a vote and they will try again tomorrow. "the washington post" is calling what happened today an embarrassing setback. as one seen year aide put it to the president tonight, one and done. if the fails, obamacare fails and the republicans will move on to tax reform and the...

>> we have been promising the american people we will repeal and replace this broken law because it is collapsing and failing families and tomorrow we proceed. >> it appears they are lacking enough yes votes. the question is so important, republicans can afford to lose 22 within their ranks. the house freedom caucus hold out could deal them that low. democrats like nancy pelosi too eager to pounce on the disruption. >> donald trump may be a great negotiator but clearly you are not ready. >> the ...

And of itself doesnt get it done for us and they were continually saying nos. they were trying to get to yes. were talking about 31, 34 no votes as of late this afternoon. now were told that the president at 3:00 this afternoon asked speaker ryan to pull the bill. i guess well get more detail from the speaker himself about next steps and what happens. what you can def fifinitively s this is a major setback. >> shepard: interesting wrangling for capitol hill. im guessing theres people at home goi...

Actually think the best bad option is to do what the president is saying which is if it fails tomorrow, leave it alone. they are -- it is going to be a huge political setback if this fails and i dont know if it will. lets not get ahead of ourselves. things can change. i dont want to be telling people this thing will go down in flames because it may very well pass. but if it does fail and they drop it, the cost of substantively making peoples health care worse is worse than the short-term politic...

Forward about how the white house will react, will move forward, pass this bill and what theyll do next. back to you. >> all right, athena thank you very much. athena jones at the white house. lets bring in our political experts. gloria borger, lets step back a little bit and take a look at the big picture. this is a huge, huge setback not only for the speaker and the republican leadership of the house, but for the president of the united states. they fully expected i think at least 24, 48 hours...