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Ridiculous standard of the first 100 days -- and it has been a lot, including supreme court -- media will kill!" >> but that is so very different from what he said in october, his speech at gettysburg. listen. >> i will work with congress to introduce the following broader legislative measures and fight for their passage within the first 100 days of my administration. middle class tax relief and sim flicti simplification act, the repeal and replace obamacare act. [ cheers and applause ] fully repeal obamacare and replace it with health savings accounts, and we can do that. illegal immigration ...

Issues. first on health care. you mentioned all the factions. if you go back to when it collapsed, the finger pointing, the speaker didn't want him to but the president said we're open to negotiation. the president made a number of concessions to the freedom caucus and then still couldn't get enough votes to pass the bill. listen to dave brat, one of the members of the freedom caucus, why does everybody keep blaming us. >> president trump was good in the negotiating process. we said yes. he said yes. somehow something in the swamp said no. >> something in the swamp. >> the lochness monster. >>...

Professor robert rice and cnn economics analyst and former advisor to the trump campaign. is it a good idea for this white house to try to be setting another deadline to pass something by next week or shortly thereafter? >> i don't think so given the record. republicans haven't been able to calm with a repeal and replace for the obamacare act. it was six years and they didn't do it again after trump became president. the odds are very low. they have been on recess for the last two weeks. coming back next week. setting a deadline within the first 100 days i think it's almost impossible. i don't...

That's a very interesting number to look at as they're making this second attempt, especially in the face of a lot of uncertainty about whether the changes they make to win over certain votes will lose them votes in the house, not to mention the fate of this bill in the senate. a big lift in a short period of time. we'll see what happens. >> all right. thank you. joining us now is berkeley professor robert rice and cnn economics analyst and former advisor to the trump campaign. is it a good idea for this white house to try to be setting another deadline to pass something by next week or shor...

And at the end of the week what they're going to have is not the health care bill and maybe a one week extension for the budget. >> what does that say about republican government? they had the house. they won the senate. they said give us a republican president and we will show you we can get things done. we have stop gap measures to keep the government open or at least start moving, advancing their signature promise of the last five, six, seven years, repeal and replace obamacare. >> there's a reason they didn't have something to go. health care is pligtcomplicated not everybody agrees. the r...