that s what gop leadership is hoping for. they can use their majorities to pass a tax reform bill based on conservatives. house minority leader nanlsy pelosi complained about the gop strategy. somewhat we have said is if you are going to do a whole revision of the tax code, it should be done in a bipartisan way. that s the only wait will be fair, simplified and sustainable. with the speed of light in the dark of night they are trying to move this in a matter of days from when we have seen it until they will vote on it. reporter: that s the same strategy democrats used when they passed the accordable care
repudiate their own congressional budget office, the director appointed by republicans, or they re going to have to say what, it s coming apart any way. the accordable care act. so if 23 million people lose their health insurance, big deal. that s a very untenable position. i ll tell you, most of those losses are in medicaid. and it s going to be even worse because of the trump budget that even cuts medicaid further. republicans are, as you say, criticizing the cbo. steve, fewer people, 23 million people who are going to be uninsured and a smaller impact on the deficit. is this a mixed bag for house republicans? with all due respect, i think you and robert are burying the lead story here on health care. there s actually a much bigger story than the congressional budget office report, anderson, and that is in recent hours, blue cross and blue shield has basically said that they re pulling out of kansas and missouri. this is i think we can now officially declare obamacare in
what does it say? it raises questions about speaker paul ryan and whether he properly laid the ground work to manage a quick repeal and replacement during those years when they were vote after vote repealing obamacare when you knew president obama was going to veto it. and the thing that created great problems in these final hours are the president s own words where he was unable to explain how the pre-existing protections worked, focussed attention on the plan that is going to be voted on would give states the opportunity to get a waiver that could very well make coverage unaffordable for people with pre-existing conditions. that is one of the real fault lines. it is one of the things people like most about the accordable care act. the idea you are going to lose that protection for millions offer americans is something that makes it hard for conservative republicans to vote for. yeah. to be clear, it is not clear
says in an interview that he s worried if you don t get oh faux republicans don t get their act together that this may then push the president to work with democrats to fix obamacare. what do you say what do you say to the speaker on that one? do you think there is any chance that you will work with the president to fix obamacare? well, what i would say to the president and the speaker is listen to your constituents. listen to what the public said. they spoke very loud last week. they spoke clearly. no repeal. we do not want them to sabotage or undermine the accordable care act. to the speaker needs to understand that before we go any further, we have to come to agree that they will not repeal the affordable care act because the public knows the republicans want to take away their health care. that s a fact. congresswoman, i do remember you boycotted president trump s
you re just a member of the family. looking forward to christmas. a new poll from usa today finds that more americans believe president obama s best legacy is also his worst. 24% say the accordable care act is barack obama s greatest achievement. 22% say it was the economic recovery from the great recession and 9% say his moral leadership. atop the list of obama s biggest failures as president are obamacare at 27% and also 15% say his handling of wars in iraq and afghanistan and 15% say race relations. about a third of those surveyed said obama ultimately will be seen as a good president. 18% say he ll be a great one. one in four say he ll be rated only as fair and another one in four say he ll be seen as a