and any weight regret pursuing health care given how it is? how complicated it is? press secretary spicer: when he legislatively and i know for most people, does not make a ton of sense, but that savings you receive through the healthcare budget in the 2016 and 2017 process allows us to utilize the savings in that process to maximize additional tax reform measures that will start in the 2018, fy 2018 reconciliation process. while that sounds like a ton of inside baseball gobbledygook, the reality is that in order to maximize tax reform both on the corporate side to make our businesses more competitive and to give individuals especially middle-class americans for tax relief, doing this in that way maximizes the amount of savings that you can use for the second reconciliation package which would be tax reform. doing it the first way, you can
the message speaker ryan delivered today and if so what lessons do you draw from this process? well i think the speaker s currently having a conversation with him to talk about where that vote stands. he s working with the members, you know the president made a sell the tuesday group here and 17 members here, 16 walked out as a yes. i think we have had a group of members that we ve continued to have a conversation with, and tried to make frankly at this point not a question of negotiating more, it s understanding the greater good that s at hand. the president understands this is it. we had this opportunity to change the trajectory of health care to help improve, put a health care system in place, and to end the nightmare republicans campaigned on called obamacare. i noted yesterday it was the seventh year anniversary of obamacare. we have an opportunity to make sure that was the last one and the question is, do members realize this opportunity? there s no question in my mind at leas
and third is the legislative things that will take 60 votes that complete the overall package, how do i have seen there s a lot of, the comprehensive nature of this makes it very complicated and i think that s a lot different. normally you have one bill that sails through and deals with the things and you can roll it in. in this process we have one-off discussions about whether the senate accept this if you put it in, if you put it in, will they not only accept it but will the byrd rule take place and kick out the whole thing? that complicates this probably like nothing else. reporter: understood. just to put a fine point on it, was it his initial ask to do health care first or did house speaker paul ryan say this is something during the transition we sat down and gamed out in coordination with the house in terms of what should go first and why, but again it s not a question of what should go first. it s a question of if you don t do it first, you know, do you lose some of the
on the table, who is to blame right now for this holdup, in your eyes? let s wait. i m not assigning blame. reporter: but you wanted a vote even last night or this morning so there is a stall. so from last we did want a vote last night and as i mentioned as we got into the evening hours the idea wasn t to bury this at 12:00 or 1:00 in the morning. reporter: initially you were asking for one yesterday and a statement from the press this morning. reporte . i m not backing away from that. as the process went on we realized that vote would occur in probably actually into today, in terms of like calendar ways, and that doing it at 1:00, 2:00, 3:00 in the morning was not something that would be in keeping with what we had promised. reporter: who is to blame for the stall? there s no reporter: the caucus? it s not a blame. it s a question of getting all the members together and dealing you ve seen the activity. you ve seen the members go back and forth. it s right no
been able to cast a bunch of votes over the past couple years when you knew a president wouldn t sign it. you now have a president that s going to sign the bill if you pass it. and now is that time. zeke? reporter: thanks, sean. [ inaudible ] said i ll fix it, throughout the entire campaign his message to his voters, the american people was he s a businessman, he knows how to get deals done, knows how to break the gridlock in washington, he s the closer is what you said earlier this beak. if this vote does go down, what does it say about the president? is the president humbled pi this process and will he readjust let s, you know, i m not like i said to jill, i m still optimistic. i feel like we re continuing to work hard but at the end of the day, you can ant force somebody to do something. there s nobody that be ojectively can look at this effort and say the president didn t do every single thing he possibly could with his team to