things. democrats say we need it because of fraud. this is an extension of that argument. people saying there is fraud. we ll take the steps because there was fraud and we ll prove it. it is red meat to the base. i don t think anybody expects the states to cooperate so immediately yesterday is an indication. it s a problem that doesn t exist. we know that the twitter feed of the president can sometimes be a guilty pleasure. what s it like for those you can speak to on capitol hill. republicans specifically. about the issue with having to react, to answer questions. this is a problem for republicans. they are tiring of the fact they have to answer to the president s tweets. the senate in particular is really in the middle of a health care fight. they are trying to keep focused
what obamacare does is provides a subsidy so more people can buy health insurance in the same overpriced market that the rest of us are in. that s why the republicans are struggling to come up with an alternative. that s the plan they wanted. the only reason they hated it was because it had barack obama s name on it. the cbo scored earlier in the week when it put the senate bill close to where the house was in terms of numbers. it was a work in progress. about 32 million people would lose their insurance. you have this article entitled an op-ed in the washington post. nine ways to fix obamacare. is it that easy, steve? just a quick nine ways? if you look at this logically, what s the problem that the republicans say they want to fix about obamacare? the problem is the high cost of premiums. there are two ways you can cut
really mean names. does tweeting work for him? ing loo, we saw this happen time and time during the campaign. he considers himself the master at branding but look, congratulations to donald trump for actually doing something that many people have not been able to do, unify republicans and democrats. he simply cannot handle when powerful, smart women criticize him. we saw this happen during the campaign with secretary clinton. we saw it happen with megyn kelly and how it happen yesterday, so it s one thing to actually have this sort of lack of temperament during the campaign. it s another thing to exercise this as president of the united states. it s deeply disturbing. i don t think anybody who thought that maybe he would change of course as president, you know that s certainly not happening so it s deeply disturbing and there s simply
and hearing from constituents makes it harder to repeal the bill. congressman you were a vocal opponent but changed your mind, why? i don t think i changed my mind. republicans failed to realize you can t replace obamacare with something that actually reduces health care for individuals. the replacement plan has to make sure nobody is worse off. there s an expectation obamacare established rightfully for a safety net. republicans on the hill first of all, there will never be a vote for just repeal. they can t get it through the tuesday group in the house and the moderates in the senate but stop following this president. what republicans need to do on the hill when people say how can they stand up to the president? the republican leadership needs to stand up and say you know what? the president s going to do what he s going to do but we re going to do what we do as republicans, we ll craft a responsible republican agenda, pass it through congress, whatever it takes, put it on the pr
for a while. adrian that is the impression he has about the democrats through the democratic process of trying to repeal and replace something republicans have run on for the last seven years. do republicans really own it, though? if they go ahead and try to doing awith away with the aca do they own the problems? absolutely. this is also something donald trump ran on when he ran for president. but look, at the end of the day, they had seven years to try to find a plan that united conservatives and moderates to owe peel obamacare and they can t do it. why? because the majority of the american people support obamacare and want tweaks made to the bill to improve it especially when it comes to lowering out-of-pocket costs and high cost of prescription drugs but don t want to see it repealed. the fact these guys are going home for the fourth of july recess and going to town halls