this go toward the vote? if they had brought it tonight and let the freedom caucus kill it, wouldn t have been that big of a deal. re killed it, trump says we tried and they didn t want to. this he wants to pass but seems to care less about than the core of the economic agenda. he tried to sell it but it didn t take. voters, only 17% approve of the law. it is broadly unpopular, the bill. broadly unpopular. people don t know about it and they already don t like it. if this becomes an ordeal to try to get it on track and you re doing all of this, you re going to see a lot of air go out of the balloon. bret: it was going to be health care, tax reform, infrastructure. some of the tax reform numbers
thankfully we have a congress and a president who are committed to delivering much-needed reform. i look forward to the house passing that bill soon and we will look forward to taking it up in the senate where there will be a robust amendment process. to bret: robust amendment process but possibly a robust d routing process of taking out te meat. the house could pass what they need to do and let the senate take care of it. that s what they are therefore and they are good at it. i think this is something of a lifeline provided to paul ryan, learning he d been telling people you can t get rid of these regulations. now he knows he can, gives more flexibility. you have the freedom caucus willing to accept some of the issues. deregulation might be the key. if it doesn t happen the next few days, they might have to start over.
bringing up this bill in the same day as the seventh anniversary of the affordable care act. donald trump may be a great negotiator. rookie error. clearly you are not ready. stay where they may be ready tomorrow. the vote looks like it s heading to tamara but we don t know because they don t have enough yes votes. that s why they postponed. this is the white house pushing hard, trying to sound optimistic today from the podium. he was on the phone last night well until the 11:00 hour with members discussing their support for the bill. is there any plan if the bill does not pass? no, it s going to pass. that s it. reporter: is there an acknowledgment that perhaps there needs to be a plan b? no, plan a. bret: plan a is now plan a plus.
careful about where, how you disseminate it. bret: american citizen number one, american citizen number two, american citizen number three. that s how this is usually listed. i think it is the unmasking and dissemination. nunes set himself it was not the collection. for a people in america following it, maybe not to the level that we are if we are lucky. bret: if they re lucky. don t they say, there was some kind of surveillance. he could say there was some kind of surveillance, claim it win, move on. democrats will never be satisfied on the russian thing, unless donald trump is ejected, democrats will never be satisfied. but at a certain point, this administration is burning too much horsepower on this feud between trump and obama. too much energy, too much effort, and his defenders are burning too much of their time having to go out there having to
person who decides what you can do on this magic unicorn ride, senate parliamentarian apparently told mike lee you can probably gut obamacare. you can probably rip out these provisions, the regulations. mike lee runs to the house and says we are cooking now. we can do whatever we want. and this, to a.b. s point, paul ryan is in the position of this undercuts his argument where we can t give you what you want because reconciliation. now they say maybe we can have it all and modern republicans say we want off this buggy. it bret: is mitch mcconnell mitch mcconnell. on the seventh anniversary of obamacare s enactment, americans deserve a better way forward.