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On cnn -- sorry to mention a competitor -- with paul ryan. we see him on the screen right there. jeff genes, a conservative who worked for ronald reagan, telling paul ryan that obamacare saved his life. he had cancer. he'd be dead without obamacare. standing in for the millions of americans whose lives were saved or improved, they are the winners thanks to trump's and paul ryan's and republicans' incompetency. >> that's going to be hard to top. >> my choice is pelosi and he embarrassed me. >> i was going to say -- >> nancy pelosi gets a lot of flack from being san francisco and from republican...

Were all anti-the bell. the breitbart world was saying that the failure was the paul ryan faction messed this up and you have another narrative that the house freedom caucus, the tea partiers basically torched it. who do you feel failed it? >> it's not so much political as conceptual. seven years they've been voting symbolically 50, 60 times to repeal obamacare, promising that they would replace it with something better. seven years have gone by and it turns out they don't have a health care plan because they're really not concerned about health care. there's an ideological difference here bet...

At least privately. >> joy, as you know, donald trump does not have a history of accepting blame, accepting responsibility for pretty much anything but i have to disagree with evan. i think if paul ryan were president, this bill would not have passed. the modern republican party is radically opposed to government itself. they're radically opposed to taxation. what is governing? governing is about taking action to solve people's problems. they want government to do less rather than more. what they're trying to do on health care is an act of negation, it's an act of taking things away that presi...

And could donald trump's failure ruin his bromance with paul ryan? but first, as we go to break, we will like the former vice president of the united states remind us what it like to actually have a president deliver on a promise. >> i've gotten to know you well enough and you want me to stop because i'm embearsing you. but i'm not going to stop because you delivered on a promise, a promise you made to all americans when we moved into this building. our children and our grandchildren, they're going to grow up knowing at that a m-- t a man named barack obama put the final girder to provide the ...

The president gave his all in this effort. he did everything he possibly could to help people see the opportunity that we had with this bill. he's really been fantastic. still, we got to do better and we will. >> are you confident in speaker ryan's leadership and his ability to get things done? >> yes, i am. i like speaker ryan. he worked very, very hard. a lot of different groups. there's a lot of factions. and there's been a long history of liking and disliking, even within the republican party before i got here. >>ow much longer will this bromance last? john harwood, i'm going to go to you ...