unfordable for you. >> representative, let's talk about this some more. by cnn's count, there are 21 "no" votes, mostly moderate republicans. failing again last week, why would the white house try to push this through again without being sure they had the votes for it? >> so you're asking me to explain why the white house takes certain actions and i can't do that. but what i will say, the reason you have so many republican moderates saying, "no," they are not going vote for this bill, they read it and understand it does not cover pre-existing conditions and that's the difference between this version and the first version when you had the house freedom caucus. the change now is that this bill costs less because it doesn't cover pre-existing conditions and the moderates are baulking at that. >> obamacare is holding up for now. we'll see once there's a vote. here's what the president said