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Commendable, we've lauded you on it for this program. many colleagues did not. those town halls happened before the bill legislation was introduced? am i correct? >> certainly we had our principles but yes it was before the bill was introduced. >> so if i were in your district and i were on the exchange making $20,000, 60-year-old old and saw my out-of-pocket cost going up $7,000, i didn't know when you had the town hall, now that the bill exists i do know that, do you see why it might be important to have hearings or exchanges with constituents? >> i have a series of exchanges with constituen...

Congressman steve king of iowa and congressman, a lot of your colleagues, particularly the more conservative colleagues in the house and senate are in open revolt at the pace and process with which this bill is being considered. are you one of those individuals? >> i'm not in open revolt but i am concerned about us not being able to get some of our conservative principles plugged into this legislation. so i'm with those folks on the policy side of this thing but not on the revolutionary side. >> let me ask you this -- did you feel the affordable care act was passed too quickly? >> we fought it...

And that's the bill i'd like to see go from the house which it's passed in the past over to the senate and set it on mitch mcconnell's desk so we start fresh. i say we have a bad foundation, we need to start fresh and rewrite this thing from a fresh start without being encumbered by some of the base work in obamacare. and if there are good pieces of that, we can put them back in by consensus rather than try to save something. >> how many people in your district are on the exchanges, congressman? >> i don't know that number. you may have that in front of you, chris, but i don't know that number...

Last time. if you're looking to the cbo for accuracy, you're looking in the wrong place. >> the reason trumpcare proponents are moving so quickly is simple -- with each and everyday that passes, the list of people and institutions opposed to their bill, which already includes the aarp, every democrat on the record, and many congressional republicans, gets even longer. >> look, no one likes this bill -- hospital, doctors, governors, conservatives, liberal, non-partisan groups and, most of all, the people who will no longer have affordable health care. >> this graphic shows some of the non-parti...