politically feasible but not the right thing to do with real people and have lives that need treatment. ed: the vote is looming in the house. gop leaders pushing to repeal and replace. president trump said it has to be done to save americans from obamacare. we ll speak to an architect of the bill dr. ezekial emanuel and we ll speak to marsha blackburn. the president has left nothing and this is the same way he campaigned. he went to the 11th hour and made the case to the american people and he won and i think we ll see the same level success is it comes to this effort as well.
new york post my way or the highway. we have steve hayes a fox news contributor and the president is essentially telling people through omb director mick mulvaney if they don t get it voted through they re moving on to tax reform. do you think after republicans ran on this all the way through saying they ll repeal and replace they ll truly walk away from it if it doesn t pass today? you have people like members of the house freedom caucus and mike lee and ted cruz and others pushing for a repeal and you have strong-arming by the house leadership on the republican side but it s strikingly reminiscent in my view of how democrats did this when obamacare passed through. very little debate and no
will continue to go up. there s nothing you can do except subsidize those and vote to repeal them though it does nothing on the premiums because it s a broken system that won t work. they voted for it. now they say we can t vote for it. that s political pros posturing. obamacare is a bad law and if you re in the exchange the premiums will be going up double digits an average of 25%. what matters is if you get out of the system the premiums go down which is what the cbo said would happen. shannon: we ll see what happens on the house floor in a couple hours. karl rove. it s exciting. ed: your thoughts on live events were over, no. we heard from devin nunes and we re expecting adam schiff to speak to reporters in moments.
capitol hill. there s a lot of coulds. senior advisors are pushing and mick mulvaney was the messenger to say to house republicans today is the day to vote. a source familiar says mulvaney was asked what happens if it fails and he said quote, it means we re stuck with obamacare and if it fails the administration says it s planning to move on to tax reform so here we go. mr. mulvaney made it clear the president is done negotiating. this is a conservative package that lowers costs and at his request and the leadership s we re moving forward with the vote. after countless meetings and phone calls with different members and various groups of lawmakers the team said they ve done the work and we kept the
as we learn more about the documents and whether they further prove surveillance by the last administration we ll update you at that time, ed. ed: thank you, catherine. shannon: president trump saying vote for the health care bill for deal with obamacare. 2017 would be a disaster for obamacare. that s the year it was meant to have slowed because that s when it was supposed to be shannon: can anyone argue obamacare can sustain itself as-is? we ll speak to the plan s architect dr. ezekiel emanuel next. ed: and new details on two illegal immigrants accused of raping a 14-year-old girl. an attorney of one of the accused saying the claims are simply not true. have you thought through the