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My role is to bring the grassroots to congress and let them hear what the american people are saying. ainsley: if it doesn't pass who do republicans blame? do they blame the president or lawmakers in congress? >> it's going to pass. that's what i think. i'm optimistic because there is a recognition that people are hurting across this country with premiums doubling. deductibles so high. insurers pulling out of the marketplaces. 2018, 44% of the counties with one insurer. ainsley: not everyone is confident it's going to pass. >> they have to. ainsley: need 50 senators and 10 of them not on board...

The house and senate republican lawmakers who want to repeal obamacare to have said they voted to try to do it. but the second is that mitch mcconnell wants to get on to tax reform. if you make an effort to move this forward and it stalls, you can say, look, we've tried, we're here to govern and need to move on. either way, it preserves a path forward for him. >> it's important for republican lawmakers they are able to take a vote. this is something they've been talking about for years. the idea that you would have to go back home to your constituents and say, we couldn't even get to the point...

Ferment in the presidential mind and he said it's gone on long enough? it doesn't pass the laugh test. given that, there is an ongoing investigation that he had to know he was going to disrupt with this. >> how big a problem -- i anticipate this being a huge problem with washington. it's going to tie up everything. it just added -- we already had raging fires in this town. now we've got gasoline poured on them. >> exactly. congress has to sort out whether this is its problem, that is, the investigative power of congress is an important part of the article 1 powers that make congress the primar...

You heard him say they let him go to russia to give that speech. there's no record of him asking for permission in advance. i would make this point. the white house is saying we trusted the obama administration on that security clearance and we were fined to make him the national security adviser but we didn't trust the president when he sat down two days after the skplex said you might have a problem with this man. there's a fundamental inconsistency. i would just say it's apples and oranges, but it's 1.5 million apples. there are people walking around d.c. or in the world who have a top secr...

Pulled, these were the no votes we mad had on the record. this deal today, it's with the freedom caucus. that means at least 80%, maybe more of the freedom caucus is now onboard, so a lot of these nos now go away, but, again, you still had all these other nos. there's more than just the freedom caucus on the republican side that had reservations with this. you had moderates. so, look, if you please the freedom caucus by moving to the right, does that put more moderates at risk? remember, something else hovering over all of this, there are basically 23 republicans in the u.s. house right now, 2...