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The president has to win over one of these groups. heres one path he says hes considering. >> what would be really good, when it explodes, which it will soon, if they got together with us and got a real health care bill, i would be totally open to it and i think this is going to happen. >> willing to work with democrats, i want to talk now about this with former house majority leader tom delay. hes also the author of "revival, revolution, rebirth." . you got the nickname the hammer. . you are on...

Building and you can repeal obamacare and have a market for people to go into. >> your strategy was more to start on the right, wasnt it? to sort of start right and build left >> well, when i saw this bill coming out, i thought oh, my goodness. this is not good. they havent been -- yeah. what you do in the house is you set the standard, and i did it for 11 years without losing a vote and i called it grow the vote. you start working with the members, and you start from the right and you move to t...

Who said you have to take out the families of terrorists. who openly criticize is the obama administrations rules of engagement as too strict. its entirely possible that the trump administration loosened the rules of engagement to such a degree that civilian casualties are more likely. this rhetoric might make commanders more likely to take risks where they wouldnt have to before. but the surge has been so dramatic that it really does seem like were looking at a pattern here rather than somethin...

>> speaker ryan. lets listen in. sorry. >> we have been promising the american people we will rerepeal and replace this broken law because its collapsing and failing families and tomorrow were proceeding. >> do you have the votes? do you have the votes? do you have the votes? >> that was dana asking, do you have the votes. >> we often talk about, we say, elections matter. they do matter. house members voted for paul ryan. when they voted for paul ryan, house members, conservative freedom caucus ...

Getting quality health care in this country. and theres no democrat that will tell you that we dont need to fix obamacare, we do. we need to make sure were infusing money in the state pool to insurance companies stay. something the republican party can work on doing. but obamacare has saved lives. and theyre having a hard time dealing with that. and im just relishing in the fact that paul ryan could not give his smug speech today on the seven-year anniversary. >> so when it comes down to it, do ...

Projects, special projects for a district. well give you a bridge, a center named after you. favors for members of congress in exchange for their votes. they dont have that anymore. they got rid of earmarks. the other thing they had, they had this guy to him d tom delay who was the whip. he was a tactician and strategist. he could whip and get those votes in shape. they dont have anybody in the house. >> earmarks are in that tax code the 3500, special deals for special people. thats why earmarks...

Kind of a rendezvous that we have here. >> so congressman ryan is not mincing his words. what is the risk for the republicans and paul ryans relationship with the president if this doesnt make it through? >> well, paul ryan has a situation where he wants to be able to bully, frankly, its the only word for it, his members, but the dynamic has changed. if this was 15, 20 years ago, you know, if you had tom delay there, a different dynamic where leadership could dictate, thats one thing. but now yo...

Alternative plan to put hump ty dumpy back together. we will have another track at it when it comes back. if that argument doesnt work i dont think they get it passed. the biggest danger so many are on the record saying this is not a conservative bill im against it. thats a hard thing to flip because the people have to go back to their members and watch for side deals. that is the one other thing they have is basically cornhusker kickbacks. >> mark, i can tell you that doesnt work with people in...

Which is not insignificant. that may be enough. you may start to see enough members coming over to get this through the house, ron. >> like i said, the history is, whether its the newt gingrich era or tom delay era, they have almost always found a way to get it through the home. president trump going in with both feet on this bill is the way it collides with his larger message. if you think about what he has done, he has basically taken a kind of an insular nationalism on trade and immigration, ...

With were additional members that he says were no. but theyre not the ones on this list. so by our count, and im looking at it right now, yeah, it is still 22 people leaning no or no. again, the people he met with not on our list right there. but he may well have convinced the people in the room to vote yes, which is an interesting development. ron brownstein, senior editor at the atlantic, and tamara keith, thank you so much. ron brownstein, the president said hes 100% behind this effort. his 1...