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Reporter certainly. That will be a challenge for some of them especially in districts where the president is very popular. If members did not side with him on this. I think the big question right now is will it get to the floor . Thats a decision that Doesnt Reside in the white house. Its really a decision for the majority leaders of the republicans, Kevin Mccarthy a long with the speaker, they run the floor. If they believe it is sort of a doomed bill, theyve got to make a calculation about tip typically you could see them not put it on the floor with that political exposure for each and every member to be recorded on something that went nowhere. Thats typically how this goes. We saw the president saying he wanted a vote. That was a point of leverage. In the time weve been talking about this and when weve been updating our own whip counts and describing the mood and the atmos ....
A substantive bill passed. now we turn this morning to congressman jim jordan a member of the house freedom caucus. they did their job a couple months back to get the ball rolling. what s your reaction in the senate. a good step forward as the president said, that much closer to getting rid of this law that has driven up pressroom radio yums and been so bad for american families. we will see what happens in the senate over the next few days. i think you have got to be optimistic. first of all, you are an american and second of all we are getting closer to getting rid of this law. steve: congressman, it seemed like a long shot that this would pass even last week. what happened? i think the senate is going through the same process. had pretty extensive freedom caucus perspective. the big four changes in the bill when it was passed made it much better and we ended up supporting it in the end. the senate has gone through the same process. if they can t get an agreement on a comprehensi ....
To be the party of yes? from our perspective, from the freedom caucus perspective, this was a chance to say yes. we ve got our guy in the white house, doggone it, let s timely repeal obamacare. again, the mind set here from my perspective and the freedom caucus perspective is, this is not repealing obamacare. look, i give trump a lot of credit, katy, for working it, but trump did the didn t run on this. we ran on this. you know that. republicans the last seven years, this has been in our bones. this isn t in trump s bones. he s anxious to get onto other things, i think. donald trump not necessarily invested in the policy, is what i think you re trying to get at, although yes. he certainly said those words very frequently on the campaign trail, repeal and replace obamacare. joe, thank you. stay with us. let s go to capitol hill where house minority whip steny hoyer of maryland is standing by with us. congressman, the narrative out of the white house, and it has been for a wh ....
Him. what you didn t hear yesterday is how many calls a lot of these members are getting from their district in support of their no position. this is also a caucus used to getting their way. it helped oust speaker boehner. so they have seen through their actions that sometimes when they stone wall they end up getting their way. so they really if you look at it from the freedom caucus perspective there really isn t a lot of incentive there in terms of their con stitch euns and recent past to change their vote other than making this president happy but if they feel like they re going to get backlash the other way going home, why would they do that? what do you think? a agree. this is partially a miscalculation on the part of president trump and partially the reality on the ground. on the one hand you woen have such a slim margin of error if the president hadn t already ....