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From outside is that people are watching this debate as it begins, once again, you know, really heated. and they're hearing the tone coming out of democrats as we heard from senator schumer saying that they're the ones that are going to own it if they break it and it's almost, we don't see anything coming out of the democrats saying, well here are the areas where we are willing to work, we're not seeing any clear ideas as to how we can address some of those issues that you just identified in terms of potential areas to work on. republicans are saying they want to repeal it, not offering a clea...

Followed by failing program, higher premiums, higher deductibles. >> our republican colleagues don't quite know what to do. they're like the dog who caught the bus. >> speaker ryan there and senate minority leader, chuck schumer, battling it out today. and really from the start, before the affordable care act was signed, this has been a pretty brutal fight from heated town hall events with protests erupting to anti-obama care rallies that were ugly and at times divisive. today president-elect donald trump attacking the sitting presidents he signature law. tweeting, "don't let the schumer clown...

Slighted oftentimes by democrats grossly exaggerated. what do you say to those charges? >> first of all, he would need to go and look at the omb report that contradicts what the office of budget and management says, the nonpartisan office. now, the -- what i think is important for us to understand is that as a result of the affordable care act, we do have some issues that need to be repaired and fixed and the president and any democrat in the country will say, yes, we need to make some changes because you can't foresee some of the problems. what we have been able to do is to insure millions of...

Appointment at the white house. he said, okay, let me stay just a little longer. a few minutes later they came back and stayed a little longer. for a brief moment, i thought joe biden has somehow got into the body of barack obama. but it was a good meeting and the president made it very clear that if the republicans proceed with this wrong-headed plan to repeal obamacare, they will rule the day because they have nothing to present to the american people that will satisfy them. >> congressman, i don't know if you had a chance to hear congressman, your colleague, robert pittenger, on before you,...

In that meeting. you had the vice president-elect mr. pence talking about a plan, saying yes, they're going to start repealing it on day one, unclear exactly whether or not the executive actions mr. trump is going to do on day one are going to be centered on health care or whether or not they're going do be rolling back some of mr. obama's policies. here's how pence put it, talked about a clear dual-track strategy. >> we're working right now, the white house staff is, on a series of executive orders that will enable that orderly transition to take place, even as the congress appropriately deba...