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Decemb meanwhile, connor lamb has said he will not support pelosi and is calling for new leadership in both parties. republicans are still trying to tie him to pelosi with ads like this one, as they look to the playbook that they used against john ossof down in georgia. mr. chairman, thank you so much for being here tonight. very much appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >> let's start with, you tweeted a week ago, go, nancy, go. but all of all the things that you can do to try to effect policy, marathon speeches on the floor is not effective. are they trying to make their democratic base believe th...

Arkansas governor mike huckabee tweeting about pelosi. the president writing "i certainly hope the democrats don't force nancy p out, that would be very bad for the republican party." and huckabee going on there to say "many dems called for ouster pelosi as house leader. this would be tragic for republicans. stay nancy, stay." what would it mean for the republican party if nancy pelosi were to be replaced? >> i think howard is right, she has been an effective speaker for the democrats. she has raised an enormous amount of money which is why no one in the democratic party will challenge her but...

Tedious, they need to have more buy-in from republicans and democrats if they want it passed. >> john, how does it benefit republicans to keep it so secret? >> first of all, i don't think they are. thursday we'll find out a lot about it. the cbo will score this thing. there will be a lot of debate about it. the only people that aren't engaged in the process are the democrats for two good reasons. one is, they're going to oppose it no matter what. they've made it clear they're going to oppose this president's agenda no matter what. second of all, let's remember. >> john, let me stop you. there ...

It's a failure. we should all agree on that. that's why an. >> we should probably, first of all, that's not true. that doesn't mean we should get rid of health care for 23 million people. >> more choices. >> john is right. obamacare is failing. under its own weight. this was passed and sold to the american people if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor which isn't true. you can have greater choice and lower cost which isn't true. if many areas of the country, have you one choice for insurance. that is not quality affordable health care. >> all of that can be debated. my initial quest...

And we're back now with my panel. symone, we were talking about john ossof made this about health care. people are wondering if he should have gone harder against president trump. what do you think is the strategy here? because we saw sean spicer before the break saying he doesn't think the president has seen the bill. >> look, i think we can argue what ossoff did or didn't do right all day. but we can put a bin in that. folks need to fight like hell to keep trumpcare from becoming law. it doesn't surprise me the president hasn't seen the bill because there are lawmakers who are on the team su...