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Jokingly i have an announcement to make republicans have a vote they need to pass this. the punch line was democrats are going to take back the house next year. democrats are confident at least right now they're going to be able to use health care to win back the majority. >> it's a fascinating question. because nancy pelosi was speaker when obamacare was passed. paul ryan was in the majority -- in the minority. he is speaker now and she is the minority leader in part. i think most democrats and republicans would say primarily because of voter backlash to obamacare. let's listen to nancy pelos...

Politics, other conversations about how to get to the policy choices. if you're watching at home, if you like or didn't like obamacare, you remember what happened. it disrupted a piece of the economy. whether you like today or not, things changed. if we look at what's in this bill. this bill has zero chance of becoming law as written, if we expect they pass it today, it goes to the september. we'll talk more about this later, but senators have made clear we're going to change this. this is the template republicans will use in the center. children it stay on their parents health care plan until...

The party but in subsequent elections they got shellacked. >> they sure did. i will start where they were having the conversation about the raw politics of this. democrats when they passed obamacare, you know, all those years ago, maybe not so many years ago, they thought that they were going to get applauded by voters and at the end of the day or at least that campaign they didn't. and there are -- there's a lot of concern. i'm sure you're hearing it. that republicans are going home and they're going to face that very same buzz saw for taking a benefit away or at least perceived to be. >> ...

Solve the problem. if the democrats are arguing nothing should happen i want them to look in the eyes of the people in the counties or what about the 23 co ops that were given more than $2 billion? what about the collapse of 19 of those? where are they defending that? where are they helping those people with health care? >> they argue -- because they're not here to defend themselves, they argue obamacare is not perfect, but the answer is not to completely repeal it. it's to try to fix it and to work together to do that. >> it's far from perfect. we found you have less options. you have no heal...

I do think, i don't think the details in some ways matter, they want to pass an obamacare repeal. they might get it done in the september too because this is a huge drive for them. they came back after they failed in march. they said what are you doing, get this done. i think it's going to be -- the momentum here is -- the details and the energy and the party around it. >> by the idea that the party did not get one single signature legislative achievement through the congress. speaker paul ryan has been talking about this for five years. we'll get more into that in the hour. this is paul ryan ...