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Was told they wanted to do the healthcare first was one because they had promised it all along but two deficit savings they were planning, had it over 3 billion at one point. 150 at the end of the negotiation so they could get to the numbers they wanted on tax reform. they will could take out the obamacare taxes that people were paying and be able to use the difference to get the numbers down, the percentages down for tax reform. now they have to find that somewhere else. >> yep. so the baseline was going to be more favorable for tax reform in a post obamacare environment, which is now not goi...

Obamacare is helping them. millions more people being actively hurt by this law. they hoped republicans would come and save them. and so far that is not happening. >> brett: let alone small businesses who can r. concerned about the taxes who don't expand beyond 49 workers because they don't want to be rolled into this. i asked the senate minority leader chuck schumer about what they would do if they had the negotiation about obamacare. >> they would have toen compromise wets republicans. we would give the state insurance commissioners more authority to limit the price increases. we would be fo...

Replace obamacare. immediately, immediately replacing and repealing obamacare. >> i never said repeal it and replace it within 64 days. i have a long time. >> brett: president trump today after the bill was pulled off, not voted on and essentially they are moving on. the president saying in the oval office today it's time to go onto the next thing. >> we'll probably be going right now for tax reform, which we could could have done earlier but this really would have worked out better if we could have had some democrat support. remember we had no democrat support, so now we are going to go for t...

Of winners and a lot of losers and a lot of lobbying that they ought not venture into this. they have got to do their stuff before not like the perils of pauline at the last minute like they did on healthcare. >> brett: remember, have you 11 senate democrats up for re-election in states where donald trump won 82% or more of the counties in those states. so, going in to it, you would think that those states, particularly, are vulnerable for maybe some leverage on big things. it didn't happen on obamacare. weren't going to move democrats over on that repeal and replace. could it happen on tax re...

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...