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Grasp. but i'll tell you what's going to come out of it is a better bill. i really believe a better bill. because there were things in this bill i didn't particularly love. i never said, i guess i'm here, what, 64 days? i never said repeal and replace obamacare, i never said repeal it and replace it within 64 days. i have a long time. but i want to have a great health care bill and plan, and it will, it will happen and it won't be in the very distant future. >> here's what speaker of the house paul ryan said just minutes before president trump spoke. >> you've all heard me say this before, mov...

Health care premium paid for by the federal government. that cost, american taxpayers more than $100 billion last year alone. that is the essence of obamacare, that all americans are forced to buy health insurance, so, the have-nots can be subsidized and covered by the haves. it is estimated by that since obamacare passed, 13 million people have health insurance who did not have it before. enter president trump, who says that obamacare costs are way too high and the program is a disaster in every way. so, the republicans will put forward a new national health care plan. this one will not order...

We're not jamming it through, but they are jamming it through. they want this on a fast track because they know how incredibly difficult this is going to be with so many conservatives. we were reporting last night and this morning the president had a group of tea party and conservative activists over at the white house. and the president was basically saying to them, listen, this is our best shot here. don't call it obamacare. you're helping the other side. and. if this effort fails, we're going to let obamacare collapse and blame all of that on the democrats. >> let me follow through with you...

Knew he wasn't going to be here, 17 is going to be a very, very bad year for obamacare, very, very bad. you're going to have explosive premium increases and the deductibles are so high people don't even get to use it. i think we need to let obamacare go its way for a while and we'll see how it will do. it's not a question of, gee, i hope it does well, i would love it to go well, i want great health care for the people of this nation, but it can't do well. but it's imploding and soon it will explode and it will not be pretty. and the democrats don't want to see that, so they're going to reach o...

And he agreed with that decision. i will not sugar coat this, this is a disappointing day for us. doing big things is hard, for all of us. all of us, myself included. we will need time to reflect on how we got to this moment, what we could have done to do it better. but ultimately, this all kind of comes down to a choice. are all of us willing to give a little to get something done? are we willing to say yes to the good, to the very good, even if it's not the perfect? because if we're willing to do that, we still have such an incredible opportunity in front of us. i'm really proud of the bill ...