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Healthcare. this is not anything but a democrat healthcare. just remember, this is not our bill. this is their bill. now, when they all become civilized and get together, and try and work out a great healthcare bill for the people of this country, we're open to it. we're totally open to it. 2017 is going to be a very, very bad year for obamacare. very, very bad. you will have explosive premium increases. and your deductibles are so high people don't even get to use it i honestly believe the democrats will come to us and say, look, let's get together and get a great healthcare bill or plan that...

Are going to try to repeal it. >> brett: so now we are past that, charles. i would be interested to see if a public option makes its way back into the vernacular in this town. >> what chuck schumer said is so telling. everything he says is compromise between obamacare and markets based system. everything he offered is increase in government, control of healthcare, and increase in subsidies. the democrats are going in one direction. when obamacare explodes or collapses or ends with a whimper instead of a bang, but it's going to expire one way or the other, the democrats are going to head in one...

District your no vote responsible for nancy pelosi being happy. at this point when it comes to other things are there enough sticks to keep people in line to get consensus on it. >> brett: that's great point. you are not going to get to the right of mark meadows in his district in north carolina. you are not. >> other piece is obamacare repeal and replace really gone? is this not happening anymore? seven years of promises. >> brett: to that point, jim jordan a member of the house freedom caucus puts out statement: the american healthcare act did not have the support it needed neither in congre...

Gets even harder. so, the obamacare piece blowing up on the tracks might also significantly impact this next piece which is why they were trying to do it in the sequence that they at least attempted to. >> brett: charles? >> there is one thing they have learned from this healthcare bill. when you come to a really difficult issue, and there were several on the healthcare that doomed it, the really hard one in tax reform is the border tax. there is a real split among republicans, a philosophical one. they have to work it out in advance. you can't wait for the last minute. it could end up with an...

This, and they saw that quite frankly the premiums, the increase in premiums, that's a major problem with obamacare with were not going to be addressed. they saw that the elderly, senior citizens that the lower income and a lot of services for women and services that are needed couldn't stay in place and have the financial end game that they wanted. >> brett: we should point out that g.o.p. does not stand for get old people. just to point that out. >> i would agree with you there. i have a lot of young republican friends. and, look, this is something. i was very shocked. i have to sigh as a de...