they already pre determined they re going to hate it but you, the american people had a different reaction. let s look at the cbs news poll. 75% of people watched approved of the president s speech. and even fake newsish network, cnn, their poll showed 70% of speech watchers had a positive reaction. now, if you just watched the media s hysterical coverage wouldn t know any of this and think everyone hated his speech. this why on this program we call them the destroy trump media. and we have massive developments regarding the release of the four-page classified memo exposing obama-era surveillance of the trump campaign and transition and there s debate whether they should release the memo with other supporting document. i for one, am for full transparency and i don t want anything redact.
what the chairman called a big gray cloud over the trump administration for at least months. chris: mr. speaker, i want to give you a thought experiment. assume that adam schiff, the ranking democrat, was the chairman of the committee and he raced to the white house to tell president obama about some information he had gotten on benghazi, let s say, before he told his committee. wouldn t you have been among the first people to cry foul on that? we would have been deeply shocked, horrified and called for an independent commission. [laughter] chris: meaning what, that this is just rounding up the usual suspects? meaning he did his job as a partisan, and we would have done our job as a partisan. chris: i mean don t you think, newt, this is what paul ryan was talking about being a governing party. he is chairman of the committee. he has a pretty good staff. he can actually investigate these things. it seems ridiculous that the chairman it s one thing for a back bencher to go tell
left millions of people without health insurance? there was nothing that said you couldn t start with our clean repeal bill and also put in some other things that would help. but the focus is we want to bring back affordable insurance. the left always defines success as signing people up for obamacare, signing people up for medicaid. conservatives say, no, no. a better approach is let s get back to market-oriented health care, let s bring down the cost of premiums so that middle class people will be able to afford a plan in the private sector that actually fits their family s needs, not some one-size-fits-all mandate from washington. that s the difference, and that s what our plan would have accomplished. chris the rap on the freedom caucus is that you refused to take yes for an answer. the president met, i don t know if you were were you in the meeting on thursday? so one of the things that you guys were demanding was you wanted the essential health benefits removed, and the presi
with patient-centered health care. chris: if you had done that, and you could have done it under reconciliation, there d be no and we did it 15 months ago, chris. chris: there would be no subsidies to help people buy insurance or pay for their premiums or deductibles, there would be no expanded medicaid let me finish there d be no expanded medicaid to help those people. the result of the clean repeal is that millions of people who currently have health insurance coverage wouldn t. no. the result of a clean repeal is we get rid of obamacare chris: right. but that has the subsidies and the extended and it was a two-year wind-down, and you replace it with things that are going to bring back affordable insurance chris: but the flaw with that is to get that through, you re going to need democratic votes. we were going to need democrat votes for this plan chris: no, you weren t phase two and phase three chris: i understand ours was actually consistent with w
care. chris: if you had done that, and you could have done it under reconciliation, there d be no and we did it 15 months ago, chris. chris: there would be no subsidies to help people buy insurance or pay for their premiums or deductibles, there would be no expanded medicaid let me finish there d be no expanded medicaid to help those people. the result of the clean repeal is that millions of people who currently have health insurance coverage wouldn t. no. the result of a clean repeal is we get rid of obamacare chris: right. but that has the subsidies and the extended and it was a two-year wind-down, and you replace it with things that are going to bring back affordable insurance chris: but the flaw with that is to get that through, you re going to need democratic votes. we were going to need democrat votes for this plan chris: no, you weren t phase two and phase three chris: i understand ours was actually consistent with what we told the chris: woul