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Anything, that was a miscalculation. >> the president said yesterday if you guys can ever figure out how to repeal obamacare, he wants the replacement to look like what you been working on, give block grants to the state is. that realistic? >> totally. the more obamacare collapses, the more we need to do something. the one thing everybody agrees on virtually is obamacare can't be fixed. bernie sanders says fix it for a little while and then we'll replate it with medicare for all. the democrats are not saying obamacare is the answer. they say single payer healthcare is the answer. republicans a...

System and they wanted a coming together. couldn't this be a massive win for president trump to say let's just solve things for actually the american people? >> it could, steph, but here's the problem. and it was the problem with the obamacare repeal too. you've seen it in brilliant detail demonstrated in the past 24 hours, which is that he -- there's a big question about whether he actually understands the substance of what's being put forth. >> there's not a question. he hasn't spent the time to learn anything. it's not a matter of can he understand it. he hasn't spent the time to do the wor...

Politicians, i must tell you, that they wanted me to continue to pay this, i said, i'm not going to do it. this is money that goes to the insurance companies to line their pockets, to raise up their stock prices, and they have had a record run, an incredible run, and it is not appropriate. obamacare is a disaster. it's virtually dead as far as i'm concerned, it really is dead, and i predicted that a long time ago. it's a concept that doesn't work. and we are very close. we feel we have the votes. and as soon as we are finished with taxes, john, we really feel we have the votes to get block gra...

Patty murray have put forward, namely to continue the subsidize for the next two years. >> i suppose he would like the credit for sticking it to the insurance companyies see yeah executive order and to dismantle obamacare. in his mind obamacare is dead because of the executive actions he took because republicans couldn't get it done on capitol hill. but there's a striking thing about this that gets into health care policy, which no matter how you slice it, if you want universal health care, insurance companies have to get it taken care of. that's what the obama team understood. one way or the ...

Obstructionists, blocking his nominees, even touted his tax plan. and the only thing he mentioned about his idea for a health care plan was these block grants. so at the end, the reporter kind of interjected and said, okay, so the graham/cassidy bill, which famously was not supported by multiple republicans, and the president said, "yes." so it's not even clear that the white house knows what they want in a health care bill. >> he wants these block grants to go to the states. go ahead, marc. >> the bipartisan progress that we've seen over the last 24 to 48 hours, i think conservatives are very...