at the big picture and looking at what the president wants to get done. if the president steps in and says, look, i m done with it. i don t want to do anything with it, we can t go anyplace, because we need his support. we also know we truly believe the president wants to repeal and replace it. we think there s a clear understanding that this is part of that process. but we also know that he wants to stabilize those markets. he doesn t want anybody to get hurt. this particular part of the proceeds actually is designed to go to people between 100% and 250% of poverty to reduce the premiums and the deductibles and co-pays that they pay. these folks didn t ask for obamacare. they re stuck with it. we re trying to help them get through the next couple of years while we actually honor our commitment to get the graham/cassidy bill in place, send it back to the states and actually complete the job of repealing and replacing this existing product. you have a couple of times seemed to indicat
around state, something like grah graham/cassidy. the question, when is enough, enough to tip them over the edge and comes back to president trump. can he fully embrace alexander-murray to give members in congress what they need to pass this thing. and i found on the floor today, exactly what the president told me again here today. and e had whips it out and said the president said go ahead and use csrs as a leverage. almost like almost like daring the president to contradict him a little here. yeah. which he might. by, i don t know, by a tweet or by tomorrow. we ll have something different. the other amazing thing is how every time they talk about this issue it only serves to remind republicans of ow difficult this is, and we ve seen this was survey monkey came out with a poll today looking at the president s approval rating
reconciliation act once again to prove it forward. we think we ll have the 51 votes. remember, we came one vote short of getting repeal and replacement first piece in place. that s the graham/cassidy product. part of the repeal and replace we ve always known is to be able to modify sebz 1332 of the existing product. that provides the states with the ability to actually make changes in existing law, within the existing programs. the other part of it, we also knew that graham/cassidy would take two years to implement. you have to have the ability to keep a stable market during that time. that s what this allows. we ve always known we couldn t do it and if you look at graham/cassidy it was designed to go into effect in the year 2020. can this pass if the house can t pass it? right now it no. it feels as if the house leadership is pretty dug in on the idea that they don t want to see these payments. i hope that what they re looking at on this is, looking
even the third time. this past week with grah graham/cassidy. to legal cause health care and his hand-picked candidate in alabama on the same day, what does this mean for his maneuverability going forward and his relationship with the president? well, i think it raises the stakes for the importance of passing tax reform, which we re going to see an announcement from both mcconnell and ryan and a speech from the president a few hours from now. look, republicans have not had a big legislative win so far this year. heading into 2018, voters aren t going to care, you know, whether or not congress is obstructing or working with president trump. what they re going to look at and say, what have you actually done to help me and improve my daily life? and if congress, both the congress and the senate don t have a specific win and a victory to point to, i think it could be real trouble. so i think what it s going to do, it s really going to, again, up the ante for both leader mcconnell and spe
were popping champagne bottles and saying we had a moment here. i think when you see john mccain and lindsey graham basically affirming the obama administration s position on drones, what it tells me is there s very little question in my mind that what happened yesterday was a very which he has been as open as anyone. i m less convinced this was a great thing for the republican party, more broadly. you know, i think it gets them on questionable ground on an issue in terms of public opinion and an issue that the vast majority of the public isn t interested in. definitely a big moment for rand paul, and where mccain and grah graham. against president obama