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Right? the death by sabotage because you now have tom price who is probably one of the most committed foes of obamacare who exists who's running hhs which has a lot of latitude and you've got this situation where -- and you can tell, it's almost -- i have to say, it's very bizarre and almost chilling to hear the president talk about how it's politically beneficial for him if the health care system explodes in the country he's representing. i guess that's your concern and how you mobilize to make sure that doesn't happen. >> here's how we mobilize. first of all, we need to really make sure, bec...

To get the votes and couldn't deliver on their own majority. >> chris, obviously you're 100% correct. one would hope that republican leadership would take the lesson and say just as speaker boehner was forced to, recognize that if you can't get that majority you come back and work with democrats to pass a bill that is reflective of the broad needs of the country, democrats, republicans, rich, poor, black, white and everything else and the challenge was they shut democrats out of the process from the beginning and made a decision that they were going pass a hard partisan bill that touches almos...

Bicameral way because i think we have to reform the system and i'm concerned about the exchanges and about the fact in rural america, as you know, chris, in many places there's only one insurer in the market. >> right. so congressman, you had an interesting trajectory on this bill. you represent a district that went for hillary clinton, you were originally a yes on this bill, you've come on my show to talk about it and defend it and then you were a no on the bill. can you walk me through what changed your mind? >> certainly. in the commerce committee i voted to make sure there was no denial of...

Achieve what has been their single biggest goal for the past seven years and the number-one agenda item of donald trump's presidency. minutes before it was due for a vote today, house republicans, led by speaker paul ryan, pulled the bill that would have repealed and replaced the affordable care act after it became obvious they lacked the votes within their own caucus. despite a pressure campaign by the white house and an ultimatum directly from the president himself at least 34 gop members came out against the bill, according to nbc news's count. so after seven years and more than 60 republic...

A disappointing day for us. doing big things is hard. all of us, all of us, myself included, we will need time to reflect on how we got to this moment, what we could have done to do it better. >> the president, meanwhile, blamed the bill's failure on -- wait for it -- democrats who wouldn't join him in destroying obamacare. >> we had no democrat support. we had no votes from the democrats. they weren't going to give us a single vote so it's a very difficult thing to do. i've been saying for the last year and a half that the best thing we can do politically speaking is let obamacare explode. i ...