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Fighters, and that's really what splits the republicans now as they work for donald trump. when i worked for eric cantor in the house, every day, we met with members, committee chairs, and staff on a daily basis to put together a replacement bill. the more we heart people talking about fighting, republicans were the ones responsible for this in 2013, people wanted to fight, but didn't necessarily have a plan for how to win that fight. and that's what's important, is winning. >> ben, hold what i know is a great thought. and let's listen to house speaker john boehner on exactly doug's point. >> ...

Night, and i want to pose this to you, dana, about the promise from this president and from some other republicans to repeal and replace obamacare. here is what boehner said is the reality. >> all this talk that went on in november and december and january about repeal, repeal, repeal. we'll do replace, replace. i started laughing because if you pass repeal without replace, first, anything that happens is your fault. you broke it. but most of the affordable care act, most of the it will stay there. i shouldn't call it repeal and replace. basically fix the flaws and put a more conservative box ...

Conservative box around it. >> and according to boehner, he says repair and rebrand might be a more appropriate mantra. his comments coming as his old colleagues have yet to settle on a replacement plan and as they're getting a lot of flack from angry constituents at town hall meetings. i want to bring in cnn senior congressional reporter manu raju. how are republicans responding to this from boehner? >> reporter: they're pushing back, brianna. they feel they have to fulfill this central campaign promise to repeal and replace obamacare. when you talk to to republicans privately, they do believ...

Media in a free society and every citizen should be very, very clear on that. >> david, let's shift gears. former house speaker john boehner was at a health care conference yesterday and somebody slipped him some truth serum, and he spoke about obamacare. so listen to this. >> in the 25 years i served in congress, republicans never, everyone time agreed on what a health care proposal should look like. not once. if you pass repeal, not replace, first, anything that happens, it's your fault. i shouldn't have called it repeal and replace. that's not what's going to happen. basically going to fix ...

Yesterday? >> even from him. >> so you have that but the backdrop is obamacare and if you're going to take obamacare away what are you going to replace it with? and he says this about the prospect of replacing obamacare. >> in the 25 years i served in the congress republicans never ever one time agreed on what a health care proposal should look like anything that happens is your fault. fix the flaws and put a more conservative box around it. >> that's a really important