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National correspondent, i this is an important day, what do you think this does to the rest of the donald trump agenda? >> well, look, i think first of all, it is a wakeup call about the ability of this republican president and the congress to govern. republicans -- paul ryan talked about growing pains today. they controlled the house for seven years, they have had difficulty moving forward. i do think on issues like tax reform, there's much -- trying to do comprehensive individual tax reform as well as corporate, is too big a bite to bite off this year. but if they keep it to corporate, it wo...

>> with me, congressman from the great state of maryland. congressman, is it now likely after today that the democrats and republicans might get together and find ways to repair or fix or amend or tinker with obamacare? >> that's a great point, because if you look at why we try created obamacare in the first place is to deal with escalating premiums and it takes time. what really concerned me was in the last six years when the democrats were in charge, we voted six times to resolve this bill, not one time did we try to resolve the issues with obamacare. now when republicans have authority and ...

So clearly when it comes to health care, this idea of trying to solve this problem, is much more complicated, to use the president's word, than either the white house or the hill seem to understand. >> the president blames the democrats, and says the big losers are schumer and pelosi and the house democrats, and he predicts when obamacare collapses, it's going on the on their watch. but the fact that the republicans tried to tweak it, aren't the facts that their fingerprints are all over it now and their ability to do something magical with it now, isn't it now trumpcare, ryancare. >> they'll ...

Dire straits or more serious straits and not do anything to fix it. >> when it comes right down to when if you're a sick citizen, or you have a sick family member, it feels like everyone's being gamed on this, but these are real problems. >> many people lost plans they bought under president obama, many people had their premiums skyrocket. >> they don't go because the co-pay gets so high. >> you got a $12,000 premium and a $12,000 deductible. you have to spend $24,000 before you get any benefit. someone like holland peterson said that you talk about affordable care act, this is not affordable....

But he did do it first, and there were some big ups and downs and there was a big expectation republicans would finally succeed in repealing it for something else and they have failed to do that and now they agree that there's going to be a long period of time, at least months and months, where we are living with obamacare as the speaker said today. >> this has many things for many people, obamacare, and there are a lot of glitches to it. and the republicans said they were going to repeal it. and i think they were really going to not repeal it, they were going to fix it. because you don't take...