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The process, those were in january, february, march. a year in. i mean, have you ever seen legislation of this magnitude on this subject year undertake this trajectory process wise ever? >> no, never. i've stood out -- i've saw a lot of closed meetings in the capitol and office buildings but never seen a bill done this way. i've never seen a bill that actually creates more losers than winners. often you get bills that create winners and losers but this really is a bill that helps far fewer people than it would hurt and i think the republicans know that that's what they're resulting in. >> that...

>> well, there's a lot of strange things up here in this swamp, let me assure you. >> people are watching, they're saying to themselves, look, obviously you feel strongly that the affordable care act's a bad deal for americans, there are lots of people who feel that way on capitol hill. you know, you show the cards. you have markups, hearings, say this is legislation we're going to produce, you go out, make the argument. that process has been so lacking on the senate side, it leaves a lot of people scratching their head about what they're hiding. >> i tell you, my job is to represent southwest...

Where maybe ideologically it wasn't as much as a slam dunk in terms of the obamacare, the way they were able to win is by getting the votes of independents on the process ground. the idea that -- >> right. >> -- it was, you know, scott brown was able to win in a state that obama had carried by 26 points a little over a year earlier in early 2010 and a lot of the focus was the idea of the sort of washington behind closed door backroom dealing. >> right. >> they'd be able to kind of say, of course, i want to, you know, ensure that everyone has decent health coverage but i want to do it in a bipa...

Discussed why, many experts say it was not a good idea. >> remind people what was in the letter. >> the october letter said e-mails were discovered and would be reviewed regarding the investigation of hillary clinton. republicans at the time seized on it as information the investigation was reopened. we know it was not formally reopened and ultimately found no wrongdoing was done. there was a rush process to do that ee mail review. that october 28 letter is the heart of page 2 of deputy attorney general rosenstein's analysis of why jim comey should be fired. now, presidents have the right to c...

Collapse and leave everybody without affordable health care. we are doing a act of mercy by repealing this law and replacing it with patient centered health care reforms that we as republicans have been arguing for and fighting for years. >> hard to watch. the members of the freedom caucus spoke out what they branded as obamacare light. senator mike lee joined in saying, quote, this is exactly the type of back room dealing and rush process that we criticized democrats for and mo brooks of alabama said right now the speaker of the house does not have the votes to pass this bill unless he's got ...