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Saying that thing. but reform has to happen. i agree with you about tackling economic issues first. jobs. getting the economy moving. it's good for america and it's good politics. i was very persuaded by an oped that john mclaughlin, donald trump's pollster wrote for national review. he pointed out that chuck schumer, the democrat from new york, he said it was a mistake for democrats to do obamacare first. they should have tackled the economy. i would take a page out of that in terms of political advice and give it to the republicans. >> neil: julie? julie? >> i was promised repeal and replace...

His -- of its own. let's bring in our panel. mercedes schlapp, a.b. stoddard, charles krauthammer. mercedes, you hear the president. i think a lot of people get focused on the day-to-day. you have some big things happening. one is the obamacare replacement which is expected at the beginning of march and the tax reform rollout that at some point is going to be coordinated probably also within the month of march. >> congress has been trying to move forward on obamacare first. they are trying to figure out the component of what they're going to do with the obamacare taxes. concerned if they take ...

Some people are concerned. the big choice that republicans had to make going into the trump era, is deal with obamacare and repeal of that or do tax cuts first. they had to deal with obamacare first. and a bunch of procedural reasons. and had to pass obamacare and had to have a new budget and only 50 votes in the senate, that the path that the white house and the congress are on. and the problem with that one, dealing with obamacare is more complicated than the campaign slog an suggested. >> jon: one of the wizards is in charge, paul ryan. why is he not crafting something that the senate and h...

His -- of its own. let's bring in our panel. mercedes schlapp, a.b. stoddard, charles krauthammer. mercedes, you hear the president. i think a lot of people get focused on the day-to-day. you have some big things happening. one is the obamacare replacement which is expected at the beginning of march and the tax reform rollout that at some point is going to be coordinated probably also within the month of march. >> congress has been trying to move forward on obamacare first. they are trying to figure out the component of what they're going to do with the obamacare taxes. concerned if they take ...

Falling apart. at the time to come up with a replacement is now. >> we have to do obamacare first and our first budget. the reason is that insurance companies need to know what it will look like in 2018. if we wait until the summer, you have so many pullouts. we feel that the laws collapsin collapsing, that is why obamacare first. in the second budget, which you need a budget to do tax reform, the spring budget is when we do tax reform. we pass our budget, he gives of the ability to go right to the budget and that takes us to the summer. spring and summer's tax reform, winter and fall are obam...