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February. >> so a month after. a year down the road or two years -- >> it could be eight nonts or a year. i hope by the end of 2017, the next year we get it done. then you have a time frame to have a conversation about getting the best policy in, having a conversation with the american people. if democrats want, they have an open door to come in and talk about their best ideas. so we have an american health care reform package as opposed to what obamacare was which was a democrat health care reform package. if they want to take the opportunity we can all have this conversation to make health c...

President obama's warning to congressional democrats today about what he's calling trump care. first let's get details from our white house correspondent michelle kosinski. the president went to capitol hill to rally fellow democrats. how did it go? >> reporter: this is extraordinary and you feel the urgency here. here you have a president with days left in office. his administration winding down but him now very much gearing up democrats for this fight in congress to try to save obama care and, of course, his legacy. >> happy new year. >> reporter: president obama on capitol hill today urging...

Question. >> reporter: he spurred democrats to use tactics like the tea party did in opposing obamacare to go out to town halls, tell the stories of their millions of constituents who benefited from the plan as well as hold republicans accountable for what they come up with. the president saying democrats ought to start calling it trump care. >> they want to repeal it and then try to hang it on us. not going to happen. it's their responsibility plain and simple. the republican plan to cut health care wouldn't make america great again, it would make america sick again. and lead to chaos. >> rep...

Repeal will be a point in the future. so that gives us time -- >> in the meantime, throughout this year, obamacare stays in it business? >> that's right. and what we have to do, wolf, make sure we're taking care of people -- whether it's 20 million or 18 million people who now have coverage, we want to make sure people still have coverage. people who are sick in the old system have a hard time getting coverage, have a pre-existing condition, we want you to get coverage. in wisconsin we had pools that worked. we want to take care of people as mr. trump said and mr. ryan said. you don't want to ...

Not going to let you lose this. we're going to help with what we can even if chuck assumer, even if chuck assumer says don't do they've got constituents and it is about elections but it's about other things. >> republicans don't have 60 votes in the senate. >> there will have to be some measure of collaborations. >> om of the democrats' constituents like a lot of obamacare so they'll have to figure out a way to deal with it. >> a lot of democrats lost their seats over obamacare. >> exactly. >> just ahead, the naacp president cornell william brooks arrested while protesting donald trump's attor...