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So it does create this interesting scenario for a lot of grass roots conservatives to see where they end up. >> all right. phillip clyne from the washington examiner, thanks for taking a few minutes. >> thanks. joining us now, barbara lee, democrat from california, congresswoman, thanks for joining us. well, you just heard, i think there phillip clyne from the washington examiner say look, there are some areas where this proposal from congressional republican leaders does not do quite what conservatives were hoping, for instance here, they say there is still a mandate in this in some form, i...

Inclusive process. after the election, we began to work with the senate and the trump administration on this plan. i want to thank president trump. i want to thank vice president pence, and i want to thank secretary price for their support and hard work in getting us to this repeal and replace points. i also want to thank chairman brady and chairman walden for their leadership. now this bill will go through the house. as it does, i encourage all americans to read this bill online at readthebill.gop. doing big things is never easy, but we have made a promise and we're going to keep that promise...

Since president obama left office, support for obamacare has gone up in polls. is there a connection there? is having him off the political stage helping the popularity? >> i think what's happened is that finally republicans were in a place where rhetoric didn't matter. they needed to govern. they needed to say okay, if you're going to repeal it, what does it look like? and they didn't have anything until now. they said they would have something on trump's desk by january 20th, and they didn't. so when the recess happened last week, people stood up and talked about how that -- how repealing ob...

Normally do, to get a sense of how much people are going to be covered and how much this is going to cost. so what's happening is, they are creating, manufacturing a health care crisis that really doesn't exist right now. >> ron,ky put that number back up on the screen. i wonder if there's another way of looking at this. that they would keep and improve is at 51%. one of the criticisms from the right is this republican replacement plan they say would keep the basic infrastructure of obamacare. it would modify it. it would present a more conservative, republican friendly version of it. i think ...

Keeping the core of obamacare in place? >> i don't think they're keeping the core of obamacare in place. i think the republicans are moving forward with what president trump said. he favored repeal of obamacare, but keeping those elements that are in that house bill, because that's what americans want and support. and he campaigned on it. he was very clear during the campaign. but completely gone are these job-killing, individual mandates, and the taxes, including a medical device tax, which makes it more expensive for people to get the medical devices they need and various other taxes. people...