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Obamacare. >> there are some pretty easy fixes to that coming in the media has not talked about that. they mention it occasionally like being able to purchase insurance over state lines. that would be great, and i come from a health care background, so i know something about that. but i think we have to look at the lobbyist and what their influences are coming and how much they are going to make on this parade i said next to a guy on a plane that said when this goes into effect, he is going to make a billion dollars. he had no idea i was a journalist. >> jon: we remember nancy pelosi famously ...

Reform and then we move to eric repeal and replace. i think it would have gotten him off to a much better start, easy win, nothing -- you know, success. instead we are in this -- >> harris: abby, part of what i'm reading about the timing is that you had just come out of enrollment period and now you are facing another one. right? >> yeah. >> harris: trying to get into the sandwich. mandated fees and trying to change the scope of things. i can sort of understand why they tried with obamacare first. what do you think? >> i think we are all going back to this problem of communication that you are...

On both sides for doing it, there was they felt a political imperative to do obamacare first. we saw how that turned out. one of the consequences of how they set this up it's aly bit procedural down in the weeds but they structured it so this health care thing was supposed to be the budget for this year and it's very procedurally difficult for them to move on to tach reform. so they're going to have to do a lot of juggling to figure that out. it's supposed to be part of the next budget. simply that part of it is going to be difficult. it gives you a preview of how the entire saga might play ou...

With the majority of the vote and wasn't elected on an agenda. with president clinton he could fall back on what he was going to do for the middle class, for president obama in his early days -- >> you don't think he was elected with an agen d. >> repeal and replace obamacare. >> so that it worked for everybody. he was not able to do that so now what do you do? so i just think that that's what -- that is -- i'm not sure -- they probably need more experienced staff but that's not what their ultimate problem is. >> what does he do? >> it's hard. >> it's always hard. what does he do? he was known...

And we move forward. >> you think they own it. you retweeted president trump's knock on conservatives who he says saved obamacare, but is this where the republican party is now, you have to reject a pretty significant group and an influential group of your own party and try to make nice with the democrats? is this an acknowledgement that the republican party is split, is broken? >> well, look, i think it's important to note there's about 30 of these folks. there's 200 other members of the house. we're a very united party but these folks can deny us the ability to vote. we have two choices. we ...