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Democrats to begin something of a protest on the floor of the senate. organized by minority leaders, senator schumer, democratic senators are expected to take part in a sort of talk-a-thon lasting until some time around midnight tonight. their goal is to state their support for obamacare and highlight the fight within the republican party on the repealing process. repeal and replace has been the republican line on obamacare for years, but there's a debate right now in the party on whether repeal and replace needs to be done and done at the same time. so republicans like majority leader mitch m...

Bringing release to those who need it. >> mcconnell won't commit to how long the gap will be between repeal and replace. other republicans say repeal and replace has to happen at the same time. that includes senator rand paul who voted against the first procedural obamacare vote wednesday because he doesn't want to proceed with repeal without a plan for replacement. paul says president-elect donald trump supports the idea to repeal and replace obamacare on the very same day. joining me now is congressman mark meadows. he is chairman of the freedom caucus. congressman, i appreciate your being h...

How wonderful the affordable care act is -- >> sure. >> it's time that we have real discussions on what the replacement might look like. so i ask my senate colleagues, both on both sides of the aisle, let's get into real discussions about how we're going to make sure we serve the american people. >> congressman, let me ask you about another topic, medicare and social security frankly. here's what reince priebus said on that issue this weekend. >> you think think president-elect trump wants to meddle with medicare or social security. he made a promise in the campaign that that was something tha...

Look at the promises surrounding obamacare? >> it's definitely a mixed bag overall he did get a promise kept for delivering health care reform. but in some of the nitty-gritty such as expanding medicaid. it wasn't congress, it was the courts that said it was up to the states to decide if they wanted to expand medicaid as part of the affordable care act. so obama didn't get all that he wanted with obamacare, but some experts told us for a longer piece that we wrote in our obamacare report, that's okay for congress and the courts to have a say in what that law became. >> only imagine what the ch...

Conflicts of interest. >> we'll talk about it on wednesday. >> can you talk about the role you expect jared kushner to have in your administration. >> who? >> we'll talk about that on wednesday. thank you very much, folks. see you then. >> is everything going to be in place? >> we'll talk about it on monday. >> bottom line it seems to be there's something happening on wednesday. president-elect donald trump taking questions from reporters at trump tower this afternoon. he deflected most of them saying he'll talk about the matters in detail at a news conference scheduled for as you heard him sa...