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Problem the president himself? >> i think it's perfectly valid to consider the senate democratic minority, especially, as obstructionists in terms of passing crucial legislation that we need to put americans back to work, to revive our economy, to make sure americans are safe and secure here and around the world. he's right about the obstructionism. it's also true that we need a minimum of distractions and he is right to communicate his policy thoughts directly. sometimes that's only way he can really get them into the public doma domain, given all the coverage that's devoted to other things l...

To communicate very directly about the fact that the folks he's working with in d.c. on the hill are doing their best to hear all the concerns of the american people. it would be great to have the cooperation of the senate minority in particular. >> isaac? >> the senate minority has invited mcconnell and the republicans to come and have a conversation about health care. so let's be clear about that. democrats are at the table. they were at the table originally saying the problems with obamacare they wanted to get under the hood and fix. here's the rock and the hard place republicans are stuck ...

Marketplace because there's been so much uncertainty and so insurance carriers have pulled out because they've been told the health care plan as it stand now, now called obamacare, was not going to be reliable or stick around. so there's a lot of pointing of fingers to go around. >> but fredricka, that was happening before the election in 2016 and the current congress in white house. that was happening before. 19 of 23 cooperatives established under the affordable care act collapsed because it's simply unsustainable. >> okay, being made that it's being accelerated as a result of what just tran...

Acceptable. >> you heard the chant, health care, health care. apparently cassidy wanted to talk about flooding but instead the constituents there kind of took, you know, the steering wheel there. in addition to those tense up to halls that are playing out in some parts of the country, republicans will have a very long to-do list waiting for them when they do return to d.c. after the holiday. it's filled with big-ticket items that could remain in limbo until a final decision is made on repealing and replacing obamacare. lots to discuss here. let's bring in again nan hayward, former republican c...

To think here, interpret, when they hear the president say repeal it now, replace it later? >> either way, the gop plate is going to throw 20 million americans off their health care plan. >> not true. >> just a question of how quick that happens. >> not true. >> i'd like to ask the congress welcome a follow-up question. he said there was a equivalency of transparency between obamacare and trump care -- >> no, obamacare was less transparent. >> let's have that conversation. there was 25 days of debate in the u.s. senate on obamacare. mcconnell went 20 hours. what clock do you own that says 25 d...