hearing on monday that was going to include some former obama administration officials and adam schiff, the ranking chair, expressed some displeasure on that. can you offer a last comment on that before i let you go? just a short brief comment. i regret that chairman nunes has acted in a fashion which in my opinion undermines his ability to run nonpartisan fair committee hearings. i don t know why hi s done that, but he has done it. i frankly think we need a commission that is like a 9/11 commission with equal democrats and republicans, high level people, not in the congress, who have the time to look at the very very serious allegations that have been made. i don t know whether they re true or not, but serious allegations that have been made, that there was collusion between the trump campaign and/or people working at high levels in the trump campaign and the russians, our adversaries and some would
your perspective. you ve been on the other side where you are trying to get votes on something that s down to the wire. now that you can sit back and watch them do that on the republican side of things, what do you think will happen this afternoon? i think it s going to lose. . there s not a confidence on the republican side of the aisle that they have the votes. president s weighed in. they ve weighed in. it appears, and i don t count the republican votes so i have no idea, but the appearance is that they re not very confident that they have the votes. those in the media are reporting their counts are that there are significantly short of passing a bill. it s unfortunate that we have a bill on the floor that does not do what president obama said he wanted to do. he looked at the american people in the eye through the lens of your camera and other cameras and said, i m going to support a bill that will give every american healthcare insurance,
a vote on his amendment. they didn t allow that. it would have been one strategy that could have had the rules committee rule that, let him have that on the floor. if the amendment doesn t pass, he would be able to say, i tried to get it. maybe he and other freedom caucus members might be willing to vote for the bill. that s something they could have done. they could still go back and do that defending on if they try to chain strategies here. dana: how disastrous is it for the economy or people trying to deal with obamacare if the president s warning was, vote on this. if it doesn t pass, maybe i ll just walk away and we ll not do anything. what do you think of that? well, the do nothing option is the worst option. obamacare is in collapse. we ve got premiums that have doubled on average in the four years obamacare has been in effect. 25% just this year. we ve got over 1,000 counties in america that are down to one health insurance company, less than obamacare. with humana pulling
the gop bill. bending to president trump s demand to hold an up or down vote today. working to bring the conservative wing into the column. vice president pence canceling a trip to stay in washington in soup port of the health care bill. he met with the house freedom cauc caucus. pretty significant to cancel a trip, right, peter? it was. and he came here, dana, to the capitol hill club which is not right on campus. the president hangout for republican lawmakers and their supporters. it is right across the street from the house office buildings. this is the cannon building. that is where every member of congress, including all the republicans that they are trying to woo today, have their offices. so you can see the vice president has gone. his motorcade was raoeu write am standing. there is a big interest from all these reporters hearing from members who are coming out about
said that 56% of americans polled think we ought to defeat this republican bill as opposed to 17% who think we ought to pass it. that s a 3:1 margin. so the conclusion that i have reached that this is a bad bill, that we ought to go back to the drawing board. we need to have bipartisan discussions to make the affordable care act work properly. do what trump said he wants to do. if president trump offers a bill that gives every american health insurance that they can afford with better quality, i m gonna vote for it. he has offered no such bill. all he s offered is rhetoric. dana: that poll said 56% of people did not like this particular bill, the american healthcare act, but for different reasons. some people want it to go for left, some people more right. do you have a political preference for this bill today to pass or to fail? if it fails then some republicans are saying this is still the democrats fault.