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>> i'm glad it's not a dead letter and glad he spent time with rand paul. the one thing the president has done that worries me is the criticism of the freedom caucus. i know a lot of those guys. i could have gone with the ryan plan. i could have gone with the freedom caucus plan. but the president, as you know, needs the freedom caucus to get legislation passed. he is going to need them to get his tax plan passed. is he going to need them for other things. i think theme brace of rand paul who is, you know, essentially a senate freedom caucus member was a good thing. and i hope he doesn't give ...

I think that we're trying to also let republicans know if we pass something bad, if insurance rates are going up at 20%, 25% a year from now after republicans have taken ownership of healthcare, that won't be good for the party. it is also just not good for the country. we do want insurance rates to go down. we want more people to have insurance at a lower cost, and i'm still talking to the white house. i am still talking to the freedom caucus. i am talking to anybody that will listen, and i do still think -- i think 70%, 75% we still get repeal of obamacare, that we are going to find a good m...

Looking to be eliminated. then when you come to people's healthcare, nothing gets more personal. when you tell people i'm taking this away and no you are no longer going to have, this politically, that's suicide, correct? >> it's difficult, now, what's interesting with obamacare, it's a little bit ier because the people who are benefiting from the program don't actually like it that much. in fact, some of them who are eligible for free stuff don't sign up say i would rather pay the penalty than be involved with this. have you a little bit of advantage in this case that the product that the gov...

Republicans came up with seven variations of plans that never worked and couldn't get broad support and the idea was, how could you tell the american people i'm going to repeal this without a replacement plan. >> well, he didn't want a replacement plan. >> the bumper sticker promise was three words, drain the swamp. instead of listening to the people. no one was calling into their congressman saying, hey, let's pass the ryan plan. a lot of people were calling in saying, don't, don't go with this. whether they're democrats or conservative republicans or whatever. but this was a bill that was ma...

Administration's top priority. >> vote tomorrow in the house. >> freedom caucus members explained that the trump administration is asking them to build a -- pass the bill now so the senate can fix it later. scott perry says that's like asking for a blank check. at least one of the senators, rand paul, says he doesn't think the current bill will make it to the house floor. >> if this ryan plan has to be pulled down, when it is pulled down, we will continue the debate. >> speaker ryan didn't dismiss senator paul's prediction. >> i'm not going to get into hypotheticals. we are working towards a g...