The speaker warned him off of that. Made very clear that the individuals that would be voting for this bill were many of the individuals that helped republicans secure and maintain the majority, told them it Wasnt The Best idea. That said, there was still a House Freedom caucus meeting that was scheduled with tom price and nick mulvaney. They allowed that to happen after it was clear after the meeting there would be no movement with the conservatives, the House Freedom caucus members. The call was made. President trump called the speaker and told him clearly it was time to pull the bill and that is exactly what happened and the ramifications of that arent just micro, not just this week or this bill. They are health care, period. Obamacare stands not just for now, not just for the next couple months butter for the foreseeable future. A lot of republicans talked about if this goes down maybe kind of go piecemeal, piece by piece, try to do this in smaller chunks than all at once but is th
home and make the case and when they were first attacked at their town hall meetings, that was the first sign. that was the sign that they were in trouble. do you think those town hall meetings had a big impact? i do. they went back to the negotiating table, a lot of them got nervous and maybe the president got nervous. i don t know. but he never said this is better than obamacare. this provision will do more for you than obamacare did. so he never got out there and sold it. i m going to come back. if you take sean spicer at his word, that s a pretty damning indictment of the president s sway then. if he didn t everything he could and couldn t move members of his own party, that s a pretty damning indictment of how much sway he has. i do think the president put a lot into this in the last couple weeks but if you studied history like immigration for republicans this the quicksand of american politics, health care. those democrats who voted for
care. trump has talked a lot about the high coast of prescription drugs. i skuspect it s another high, he s not serious about it. if republicans are serious, let s work together. that s one way to save billions of dollars for americans in terms of health care costs. when you heard the president say nobody knew how tough this would be, nobody knew how tough it would be to overturn obamacare, what did you think? well, i mean, i thought it was rather amusing that a few weeks ago president trump said health care s really complicated. well, you know, for those of us who are on the health education committee, those of us who had dozens of hearings and mark-ups, yeah, health care is pretty complicated. but at the end of the day, this is the bottom line here, we pay by far more much more per capita for health care than do the people than any other
or fully grasping the nuances of your on party but he and the freedom caucus don t have a ton in common in terms of the way you govern. donald trump is from new york city, despite borrowing the language out outside of new york city go ahead. i want to say they have a common enemy that i d say would be inside washington. yeah. but that doesn t say how you should actually the role that government should play in terms of people s lives. so when you are talking about government-funded programs and medicaid, donald trump is a lot less with paul ryan and the freedom caucus frankly than he is with a lot of democrats. there s this debate within the party between eventually the neolibertarians that the freedom caucus represents, small government, free market, that s what they pushed every step. you have to give them credit because they were pushing policy. they had a philosophical idea about this bill.
for four consecutive elections. they ll be up for re-election in two years and i can promise they ll have primary opponents who will say you didn t deliver. there will be great 30-second sound bites. who s sitting in the better seat is the president. he can say stew about it and call me. i m not convinced this isn t a negotiating tactic of his saying i m going to mover on to tax reform. he said i m moving to tax reform but he can t do the tax reform he wants to do because he doesn t have the money because they didn t repeal obamacare. he wants a border tax a lot of republicans oppose, then an infrastructure plan a lot of republicans oppose. he has to start winning. this is the democrats home advantage on health care because it is entitlements, government expansion. it s a subject that you guys feel a lot more taxes, we