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Possibly do in a deal is to seem desperate. that makes the other guy smell blood, and then you are dead. >> eric: so the lesson to be learned here, don't accept the first deal, but bring another one? >> these were donald trump's words. "don't be desperate to make a deal." what i would add to that is, we are open to making a deal, and we still are open. conservatives across the country wants to repeal obamacare. unfortunately, as the house leadership brought this forward, they brought repeal and replace with obamacare light. nobody ran on that, and no conservative across the land wants it. we c...

The worst thing that would happen is for this to be passed but the freedom caucus would be emboldened and 40 or so members would be able to dominate every legislative reform including tax reform. >> mark, the opposite of that is true also, mark halpern. if the freedom caucus, after calling this obamacare light and after having heritage foundation coming out against it and after having americans for prosperity come out against it and after the koch's saying we will fund any challenges from your political left against you in the primary process coming out in support of them opposing what they ha...

Pence have that? >> they don't any more, mark halpern. when you're inside that room -- i know. when you're inside that room, you can tell you're either working for the machine or you're working for the cause. and the second tom price goes and works in the white house, he is on the other side. the second, you know, mike pence, as much as they love and respect mike pence, he doing donald trump's bidding. he is doing the bidding of a lifetime democrat. and so for these guys in the districts that they are in, there's nothing those people can say to them, other than maybe threaten them like trump t...

Great optimism from the white house that they would cajole these votes that are necessary to pass this bill. this morning it seemed more likely the house freedom caucus, the group of conservatives, were not on board and are not. the president and speaker ryan met with them for much of the morning. the freedom caucus is still meeting right now. paul ryan was going to hold a news conference to see how they were getting the votes together but now it's been postponed indefinitely. that, according to the wire services, sent the s&p 500 southbound. in other words, the market turned around on this ne...

Left and they want to sit there and hold on to it. they are opposed to that and they will fight it. donald trump's challenge here, this is uniquely meant for him. >> do you call it ryan care or trump care? >> it's hugely unpopular and begs the question knowing they don't have the votes. why are they rushing so quickly into having this on thursday? they are staring at a recess in a couple of weeks and these republican leaders know that if these members have to go home and based on constituents again like they did a month ago that the bill is doa after the recess. they are trying to jam it throu...