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Figure out the replacement and the idea fell apart within a few weeks. logisticsly, it didn't make sense. a lot of senators from conservative rand paul to moderate lisa murkowski said we need to do this all at once and back in either late january, early february, you know, the president sided with them. rand paul took credit for convincing president trump that we have to do this as a package deal. and it's kind of where everyone has been. there was a thought about this a few months ago, the senate shot it down. so it seems to me that this is not going to be the new strategy that we're going to...

Having coverage. we could dispute those numbers. the point, to say in either case, there is absolutely an adjustment period, but i don't know that it's that much as with the replacement plan. >> let me get your take on if your opinion changed since april. you wrote an op-ed in "time" magazine. you write, given this debate, give this debate the time it deserves. i'm not a wine drinker, but great bottles of wine need aging and health care ref sents a most precious bottle for americans. should congress slow down? >> it has. i think that's the reality of having a plan that was supposedly going to ...

That if when the senate comes back a week from monday, if they don't have a plan ready to go to repeal and replace at the same time, the conservatives would like to see a repeal bill put forward like one of those they voted on time and time again when president obama was in office and they knew it would be vetoed. they would do a complete complete repeal of obamacare but they would delay implementation of it for a year. essentially set a really hard deadline for themselves to then come up with a replacement plan which presumably is the kind of thing that democrats would potentially be able to ...

Support a replacement plan. number 2, you need to tell your constituent what's you're doing to replace the law. u.susan collins of maine are fo the idea. rand paul has said he's spoken to the senate leadership and the president about this and said let's keep our word to repeal and work on replacing right away. mitch mcconnell continue to find a path of 50 votes for the gop senate healthcare package. >> i think there will be various proposals, pieces submitted to the cbo to get their feedback and what the impacts will be with respect to coverages and costs and that sort of thing. >> the cbo or ...

That hasn't changed. >> reporter: so, if we unpack this comment by sarah huckabee sanders a bit, brooke, essentially what she's saying is that the overall goal hasn't changed. the president still wants to repeal and replace obamacare, but the way to get there may be what's changing a bit, and brooke, we have to remind our viewers that this was an option that was on the table for republicans from the very beginning. >> once upon a time. >> reporter: yes, exactly. they could have gone down the road of just repealing the bill to start with and then worked on a replacement after the fact, and they...