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The first paragraph said it amends the affordable care act. it doesn't repeal it. the american people want us to repeal it and replace it with something different. >> bill: what are you saying to them? >> that's similar text and we put a bill on the desk to modify obamacare and passed a full repeal bill to the senate multiple times. they've never b the votes to pass it so we're going through the budget reconciliation process with 51 votes you can get the bill to the president's desk and we got a bill to barack obama's desk that gutted the law. we're going to move through a similar process, do ...

Means there's going to be a lot of negotiation around moving forward it will happen in three parts. the beginning bill we may look different than the end bill. president trump is a negotiator. he's out to sell this thing to the american people and to those on capitol hill who are skeptical however, is open to new ideas to get it through. i want to emphasize the tea party movement is still alive and well in the sense they worked very hard for many many years knocking on doors, getting candidates that can win to repeal obamacare. and they are not going to sit down and take it and take this light...

Talked about a choice. here's what he said. >> at the end of the day when this bill's on the house floor we'll have all of our negotiations but there's going to be a binary choice. you'll either have the bill to gut obamacare and vote with either nancy pelosi against the bill because she'll vote no or do what president trump wants and vote yes to it gets on his desk. >> shannon: mercedes some feel there's pushback saying that's not the choice i want unless there's substantive changes in this don't put me on the corner. >> republicans have been running their campaign based on repealing and repl...

Later at 3:00 mike pompeo will meet with the president and on the agenda, immigration and the leaks. >> shannon: to be a fly on the wall in that meeting. we're not going to get read from that i don't think not much. all right. well, this is a top story of the day, house lawmakers burning the midnight oil and a marathon session continuing on capitol hill starting at 10:30 am yesterday and a republican working on the bill just stepped out to join us. house majority whip steve scalise is next. >> bill: and a new report that the number of those illegally entering the u.s. is dropping and dropping ...

>> shannon: federal lawmakers are investigating how a former iraqi insurgent fighter got through. the suspect claimed to have participated in attacks against american troops but at some point he entered the u.s. through a refugee program while using a fake name. sour -- sources say it shows the difficulty in vetting through countries where there's no formal documents. >> bill: the tenth anniversary since retired agent robert leaveson went missing in iran saying the family has suffered in his absence. each and every day but