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Or at least it was until the last election. now democrats are under pressure from the left to oppose just about everything president donald trump touches, even ideas they themselves used to promote." let's bring in republican congressman jim jordan of ohio. thank you for being here. i want to circle back a little bit later in our conversation to talk about the politics of the democrats and where they are because some might argue no matter what you do, you got to go to the senate and who knows. i want to talk to you about the freedom caucus and where you stand on this tax proposal and what you ...

We only have one provider. what create real cost-effective health care is the dynamics of open and free market. we need to do that and frankly that is what the house passed. unfortunately, the senate didn't have enough to get that done. but frankly, there's a lot of pressure being put on senators for the failure to undo obamacare and provide good quality opportunities for health care to the american people. eric: again, everybody can be obamacare needs fixing. even congressmen if the president can guard or buy support to a temporary health care plan in place and if this feels rushed, is it fai...

But realistically there has to be a pass forward to fix a bill and law that people know needs fixing. republicans are in charge of house, senate and the presidency. they couldn't do it on their own. get a group of by paetisans together. >> -- people hate con depress. >> entitlements wants you give them out you can't take them back. >> like halloween candy. >> that's right. [laughing] >> i take that halloween candy back. you're not eating that. >> that's right. you give the american people something it's exceedingly hard politically to take it back. we saw that on repeal and replace for eight y...

Half measure in the rules that aloud them to receive federal funds. that's in the direct control of the president of the united states. if he decides to cut off that funding to stop them from receiving federally funded healthcare, he can do that. he's holding that over their heads. say if you don't get back to the table i'll take back those funds. i'm not certain that will work. members of congress by and large have ignored the president so far. arthel: everyone agrees obamacare needs fixing. needs fixing. after the gop senators with everybody calling it epic failure and hoping to save face, i...

This is a big deal. this is not a procedural matter. if this bill were to slip through and become law, that would be serious. >> remember what demonstrators chanted outside the chicago convention, the whole world is watching. the whole country is watching. how could something like that happen. at the end of the day, all these folks want their jobs back at very minimum. >> the calculus here is that we promised to repeal obamacare for a long time. i guess it didn't occur to them that it's really hard to figure out this health care thing. so now we are going to fulfill a promise, possibly tonight...