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Republicans will get on board, but his argument didn't seem to be rooted in policy, instead his message boiled down to one word, promises. >> i have no doubt we'll pass this because we're going to keep our promises. every house republican, every -- i think every republican in congress, including the president of the united states, made a promise to the american people. and the promise we made to the american people is we're going to repeal and replace obamacare. because we made that promise, i am confident we're going to make good on that promise. >> there you go. here's the other big question...

Many dollars to buy it. >> senator, that's a promise that seemed to be a reach when president obama made it, and frankly -- when has any prediction that somehow the cost of health care is going to go down, based on some intervention by the government, when has that prediction ever come true? >> that's why i'm trying to get the decisions chuck, out of washington and to the states. get this out of government control and into patient control. make -- let people at home make the decisions that's best for them, and part of that is letting them buy what works for them and they can afford. you know, ...

This is real life. this is, you know -- there are real winners and losers in all of this. this is going to be a real test of political clout and whether there's any principle left in the republican party. >> joel, let me go -- get on the partisan side before i bring katie in which is, i go back to, i hear the promises that the republicans are making about health care. and i'm sorry, i heard the same promises from the obama administration. you know, there's this belief -- and i have to say, there were a lot of cynics going really, you think you're going to cover more people and bring the cost o...

Strategist to hillary clinton's presidential campaign and now an analysis. welcome all. charlie, this is your party. and so, we looked at this health care -- that it feels as if it's exposing the identity crisis -- look, both parties have identity crisis, one's in charge, it's the republicans, and this is exposing it. >> yeah, you didn't know better, you'd think that after eight years in opposition, they don't have a governing philosophy that being in charge is harder than being in opposition. but yeah, you are seeing that. and i think you're going see this push/pull come, you can call this ry...

You've made is statutorily that you have to deal with this first. so i guess walk me through how you're going to get these factions together at this point. especially since i think you have to do this without a single democratic vote. >> well, first of all, this was collapsing way before the presidential election. so either whether hillary clinton or donald trump was elected president, we would be having to do this right now, no matter who won the presidential election because insurance companies had sold out, young people were not buying, and half of the people that were thought to have been ...