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Pass with a simple majority, saying that republicans look like fools who are just wasting their time. >> i said from the beginning, let obamacare implode and then do it. >> reporter: also threatening to end subsidy payments to insurance companies and even eliminate some health benefits for members of congress if the bill is not passed. >> what he's saying is, look, if obamacare is hurting people, and it is, then why shouldn't it hurt insurance companies, and more importantly perhaps for this discussion, members of congress? >> reporter: senator susan collins, one of three republican senators w...

>> harris: that is not the only question before him. not one or the other. >> kennedy: but he has to decide whether to re-up. just be one that is the hardball that he is willing to play. he is willing to take away the subsidies but to give congress the health care that they have as well. that is one of the threats as well. >> kevin: get where you are trying to go, but it is more of a philosophical thing. he understands what he can fix, but why would you want to bother? there are people that are going to be covered no matter what in the country, always have, always will be. you go to the e.r. >...

Flogging congress and flogging the senate for having failed. what's not being talked about are the people who need insurance. what's not being talked about are the lives that are at risk. at some olympian, we have to stop saying this as a political chess game and see it as a american crisis that needs to be solved and put the focus where it needs to be. >> the president spoke directly on friday. senator, let me play it for you. this is another round the president is suggesting that congress can go. leave it and let it implode on its own. >> i said from the beginning, let obamacare implode and ...

President is basically making the case that so many of the components of real health care reform, chris, requires 60 votes, the drug pricing, the selling of insurance across state lines, the associated health plans that allow those who don't get their health insurance through employers like you and i do through government benefits who have been left out because the premiums are too high. premiums have doubled. chris: let's talk about -- kellyanne -- >> he will stick with it. chris: okay, we should point out that both republicans an democrats say there's no chance they are going to change the s...

When senator john mccain walked to the well of the senate, turned his thumb down and cast the deciding vote. >> i, and many of my colleagues, did as we promised and voted to repeal this failed law. we told our constituents we would vote that way. and when the moment came, when the moment came most of us did. it's time to move on. >> the question is, move on to what? tax reform is no cake walk. millions of americans have pressing health care questions now. here is the president's take. >> boy, oh, boy. they've been working on that one for seven years. can you believe that? the swamp. but we'll ...