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Obamacare light. not having that supported means they are in the position of trying to hang the repeal sign on anything they do. david and i were talking before we came on this morning, in in quiet period you don't want to count anything out from being accomplished. it seems a very difficult road. i think what is additionally difficult, i should say, is their fallback position is if they work with democrats to get something, i don't think democrats are going to participate as long as it is under the guys of any kind of repeal as opposed to just fixing. there are so many different interested pa...

Mitch mcconnell says he has no plans to abandon the current legislation and that he still wants to repeal and replace obamacare all at the same time. and ohio governor john kasich says you cannot repeal obamacare with knock to replace it because some americans might lose their coverage. >> no, you can't get rid of this. you can't leave people without what they need. the obamacare needs significantly reform. there's nobody that i talk to, either side of the aisle, even the democrats, that doesn't think there needs to be significant changes. >> these nine republican senators, there they are on t...

Ideological opposition to how health care has emerged as essentially obamacare light. those who are more technocratic and want to get in there and figure out what's wrong with ba obamacare, that's where this may go and may work with the help of democrats as well. i think the president is left to cheerlead for this on the sidelines and mitigate how much damage is done by exposing this process to all the opposition senators will face when they go home. >> chris, let's talk about the why here, why they're in this fix. you have competing interests. you have the fact there's undoubtedly less money ...

Republicans fail? part of the problem is the politics here, that the democrats and the republicans, well really the republicans tried to do all these things without the democrats. they did not join in on the affordable care act even though the democrats reach out to them, they did not reach out to the democrats here, and i think if republicans go to their home districts and hold town meetings, there's going to be a lot of heat on them, and i think we don't know how that's going to play out. time is not going to make 22 million people suddenly get insurance on the republican bill. they have to ...

Majority leader, nose. he knows where his members are, and the discussions and try to get there. now democrats are essentially same, they want republicans to come to the table to fix obamacare. give up this effort. here is the senate democratic leader on that. >> we are here to implore our republican colleagues, turn back from this bill. do not take health care away from people who need it most. to give a tax break to those who need it least. ♪ steel we interrupt now. mike, thank you. sarah huckabee sanders, the deputies press secretary having the briefing today. sean spicer was supposed to ...