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Republican senator tom cotton sharing his thoughts on twitter saying house health care bill cannot pass senate without major changes. to my friends in the house, pause, start over, get it right, don't get it fast. joining us now senior editor for the atlantic and cnn political commentator and former white house communications director for president obama. great to have both of you here. so david let's start with that. this roll out of the republican plan has been met with lots of opposition already on both sides. whose fault is it that this isn't going more smoothly. >> it may be a fault and o...

Aisle. >> okay. no one likes this bill. hospitals, doctors, governors, conservatives, liberals, nonpartisan groups and most of all, the people who will no longer have affordable health care. >> i think probably the easiest way to characterize it is repeal and wreck. repeal and wreck. it basically undermines the premise of the affordable care act if you were designing a bill to hammer my state, it would be this bill. >> but at this point, democrats may be the least of the president and gop leaders' worries. opposition is fierce from conservatives. take the series of tweets from arkansas republi...

Welcome back to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. let's stick with politics now. there is growing opposition against the republican leadership plan to repeal and replace obamacare. democrats of course are critical but now several conservative republicans are pushing the gop leadership to pump the brakes. among them republican senator tom cotton of arkansas who this morning tweeted, quote, house health care bill can't pass senate without major changes. to my friends in the house, pause, start over, get it right, don't get it fast. joining me now is republican senator cotton of arkansas. thanks for b...

Member of the finance committee. senator, thank you for joining me. let's start here. did republicans go about this all wrong? and the reason i ask this, i want to take your colleague's tweet from earlier today. senator tom cotton tweeting house health care bill can't pass senate without major changes. to my friends in the house, pause, start over, get it right, don't get it fast. do you believe that senator cotton is right or wrong? >> i don't know who senator cotton has spoken with, but there is obviously concern. it's gone through the house but there is not a score yet. folks from the senat...

Effect a week from today. the white house dropped iraq from the list of restricted countries but still bars new visas from six muslim majority nations. the white house argues that the order protects our national security. critics say it's discrimination. more republicans are ripping their own party's new healthcare plan today. we are hearing that moments ago, republican senator ted cruz told reporters that the plan will not pass the senate. ted cruz called on vice president pence to allow add-ons. this morning, tom cotton from arkansas that supported trump tweeted those -- house healthcare bil...