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Obamacare repealed and replaced to begin with. if that doesn't happen, all the town halls, a lot of it is being fueled by the town hall project with very interesting origins and address shares. they're going to see organic grassroots people back in those town halls. i was one of the original tea partiers that were out there way back then. >> looks a lot like what you guys were doing. that's not my question to you. my question is did republicans and this president over promise on obamacare, did they over promise on obamacare? >> i hope they didn't. really, i look at it like this, mike pence gav...

Where we were. >> i don't see anything coming down the pipe for republicans. >> melissa: listen to what he has to say. >> in our plan that we ran on, our better way agenda, and in all of the various house republican and even senate republican replacement plans that have been offered we have long said people should be able to stay on insurance until 26 years of age. we think the smarter and better policy is to revitalize our risk pools with federal financing. i see sort of a cooperation between the federal government and state government. we don't want to have the federal government overregulat...

Where do you staptkaodo you sta? are those two things that will be guaranteed by the federal government? >> on the plan we ran on and all the senate republican replacement plans that have been offered, we have long said children should stay on their parents' plan until 26 years of age, and so i see sort of a cooperation between the federal government and the state government. we don't want to have the federal government over regulate all of health insurance. that's why we have one plan left in five states and one plan left in 33% of the counties in america, and so more plans and more competiti...

To have that? >> yeah. i think the way to handle preexisting condition americans is state-based risk pools. a number of them already up and running before obamacare that were functioning quite well, a place where people with preexisting conditions could go and get covered. >> take -- >> all done at the state level. was already being done at the state level before the obamacare wiped them all out. so we are sensitive to that. and we are sensitive to things like people being able to stay on the policy. >> would there be a federal guarantee or would it be a state-by-state basis? >> we will let yo...

And human services who has the same kind of latitude to try to settle the markets and get to us a better place. in conjunction with tom price, the new secretary of health and human services, and what we can do laelvegislatively we think wn do better and owe it to the american people to try to do that. >> will you able to keep the parts that are important? i know a lot of republicans in my old district and people from kentucky that voted that trump that wanted to be protected on preexisting conditions and want to have some of the other protections that obamacare has. can you guarantee they are ...