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Is the only way. let's take the good. but let's look at the bad and the ugly and fix that. >> can't you take the law as it is right now, obamacare and fix it, make it better without repealing it? >> i think the better pathway is to say let's take the better options and items out of the affordable care act, the things that work for people, and plug that into a new bill. if you have a health care plan that empowers bureaucrats over your health care that's different than you and your family being in charge of your health care. so you might have to scrap the way the system is set up but take the b...

It was base d on a lie. the promise made by barack obama that it will lower -- >> millions of people love it. >> hold on. >> who never had insurance now have insurance, 20 million who have insurance who say it works. >> i'll get to that, too. there's 350 million people in america. if you carve out 20 million, there are a lot of people that have been hurt. the promise was we would drop premiums by $2,500. all of that was a lie. america was mad when nancy pelosi stood up and said you have to pass this bill to find out what is in it. if you're going to redo health care, which we are, you want to ...

Americans who have already benefitted from obamacare. however, the long list of votes that it will take to repeal it have already begun passed in the senate. donald trump will take executive action affecting obamacare literally on day one, wolf. >> we'll see what happens on january 20th. michelle, you thank you. michelle kosinski over at the white house. we're back with republican congressman sean duffy of wisconsin. you've been fighting obamacare for seven years, republicans, not just you. europe ready to repeal it. you have the votes in the house and the senate, you have a president ready to...

>> this law has failed. americans are struggling. >> reporter: the president-elect jumping into the debate n. a series of tweets seeming to warn republicans not to work too closely. they failed the obamacare disaster with its poor coverage and massive premium increases, it will fall of its own weight. be careful. the white house today hammered republicans for not yet present ing a replacement plan and for their ideas so far projected by the congressional budget office to add trillions to the deficit over time making it clear democrats should not negotiate with them unless they don't repeal oba...

Help them in the elections to come and that's what democrats are looking at now. if republicans and donald trump do not deliver for americans in the next couple of years, democrats could have a big upside in 2018 even though the senate map is going to be very difficult and, of course, in 2020. so that is what they're looking at right now. >> excellent points but how worried should republicans be, ana, if they don't come up with a plan, this all could backfire big time on them? >> i think they should be worried. it's a double-edged sword but, look, wolf, republicans have been promising the repe...