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>> big day. pete: if healthcare, if obamacare is not repealed. if that vote goes down, the trump administration says we are moving on to tax reform. a lot of people saying maybe this is where should have gone first, what do you think? >> the move toward cutting taxes is not going to be interrupted regardless of today's vote. if it's a yes vote, fine, okay. then we'll get to tax reform on course. if it's a no vote, then, mr. trump says, we will keep obamacare, we're still going towards tax reform. the bottom line here is, that investors and the economy need tax cuts and that is still on track. ...

Intransigent group. >> he has a way of coming back. if it is not that, eugene, two questions. who gets the blame here? is it paul ryan? the freedom caucus? then, what stops them from coming back and trying it again in a week or two weeks or a month? >> i don't think they will not retry it if it doesn't pass. i think people will retry it. republican lawmakers if this doesn't work. they spent eight years criticizing it. >> what about the blame? who gets it? >> the right thing is for the president to take it. he would have taken the victory. the reality is when you say i fix this. if it falls apa...

Should the speaker resign? should paul ryan resign as speaker of the house? >> absolutely not. this has been a great team effort on the republican behalf. at the end of the day i don't think that's necessary. the president has made a very, very strong case as to why everything -- >> if it doesn't pass, can the president still have confidence in the speaker to deliver his caucus if it doesn't? >> i understand the question, eric, but i'm not thinking that way. >> fascinating exchange there from fox news tonight, the questions even raising the whiff of the speaker of the house resigning. again, t...

A vote on his amendment. they didn't allow that. it would have been one strategy that could have had the rules committee rule that, let him have that on the floor. if the amendment doesn't pass, he would be able to say, i tried to get it. maybe he and other freedom caucus members might be willing to vote for the bill. that's something they could have done. they could still go back and do that defending on if they try to chain strategies here. >> dana: how disastrous is it for the economy or people trying to deal with obamacare if the president's warning was, vote on this. if it doesn't pass, m...

>> no, not at all. >> if the bill doesn't pass, should the speaker resign? should paul ryan resign as speaker of the house? >> absolutely not. this has been a eat am effort on the republican behalf. at the end of the y i don't think that's necessary. the president has made a very, very strong case as to why everything -- >> if it doesn't pass, can the president still have confidence in the speaker to deliver his caucus if it doesn't? >> i understand the question, eric, but i'm not thinking that way. >> fascinating exchange there from fox news tonight, the questions even raising the whiff of th...