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>> i ran on repeal and replace. i never ran on repeal alone and indicated to my constituency that i do not favor the status quo that existed before obamacare came into -- >> what is repair -- i'm hearing repair. we had repeal, then we had repeal and replace, now we have repair that parachuted into the discourse. that's different than repeal and replace, right? repair means keep the fundamental framework as john boehner said. >> i think this is a matter of semantics but i think repair is repeal and replace. it's not just repeal, it has to be replaced as well. and it seems to me that we're going...

Probably the health care, if i could pick one single issue, that got talked about more than any other issue, it would be health care. >> it's interesting in that clip there and i think a lot of the focus at these town halls has been health care. things like getting rid of lifetime caps, getting rid of the ban on pre-existing conditions, right, and you saw that guy asking about it. and the worry is, what are you, the republicans in congress, going to do that is going to get rid of obamacare but keep the stuff that's popular and is that even feasible? what is your answer to that? >> i couldn't h...

>> you learn a lot. it was a smfull smorgosborg. it was an exhaustive list. probably the health care, if i could pick one single issue, that got talked about more than any other issue, it would be health care. >> it's interesting in that clip there and i think a lot of the focus at these town halls has been health care. things like getting rid of lifetime caps, getting rid of the ban on pre-existing conditions, right, and you saw that guy asking about it. and the worry is, what are you, the republicans in congress, going to do that is going to get rid of obamacare but keep the stuff that's pop...

To come out? >> yes. this is our daughter, lauren. she's 30 years old. she has cystic fibrosis and she needs the provisions of the aca including pre-existing conditions and no lifetime limits to survive. >> whashg, what do you want to say to tom reid given your daughter's situation? >> we'd like to encourage mr. reid to seriously consider. we know that repeal is going to happen, okay so, let's get a reasonable replacement, a repair for obamacare. let's take care of provisions that are so important to people who desperately need them. that of course being the lifetime caps. our daughter's surge...

>> as republicans are grumbling about how quickly they can repeal obamacare. president trump conceding replacing it won't happen immediately as he promised on the cain campaign trail, but it could take until next week to complete. >> so what is the future of the aca? let's get the bottom line with cnn senior political commentator and adviser to president obama, david axelrod. there are problems with that plan and there are problems with replacing it. how do you see the future? >> look, i think the republicans in congress and the president are confronting the reality that many of us who were th...