we re just a very small number of votes short. democrats are smiling in d.c. that the freedom caucus with the help of club for growth and heritage, two conservative think tanks, had saved planned parenthood and obamacare. so he seems to be putting it right on the right wing, the hard line conservatives in your own party. i think the president s 100% correct. it s not just about making deals. it s knowing when to walk away on deals. i know we re going to make a deal on health care. that s such an easy one. i have no doubt that s going to happen very quickly. fast forward to the past 24 hours vice president pence s efforts to take a second swing at carving a path to the 260 votes needed. phil mattingly has details. reporter: the white house, led by vice president mike pence, engaging in a blitz to bring members back to the table. coming to capitol hill monday night to present a new proposal to the house freedom caucus. a group of conservatives that wouldn t back the first eff
care. a.b., the house caucus is back at it. the white house says they are back at it. democrats have their own ideas. where are we with health care plan right now? well, the president went from threatening to support primary challenges against the members of the freedom caucus who brought the bill down march 24th, by monday he was talking to them, which is an interesting thing. although he talked about working with democrats, threatened democrats in the friday tweet, it doesn t seem he s going to get any takers. he realized he has to deal with hard line conservatives who were the toughest votes to get last time. they are back to debating on the very same things, title one regulations under obamacare that make it so popular. it will be hard, actually, to find something that the freedom caucus can support that lowers premiums for healthy people and will likely raise premiums for sick people that the moderate republicans will agree to. there are still skeptics at the
is why they are saying, you know, we re going to subpoena some people [ inaudible ]. and continue on this until they have satisfactory answers that they can report to the american public. let s talk about a repealing and replacing obamacare, mark preston. as you know, a growing number of house conservative republicans are coming out against the speaker s legislation. he went into great detail explaining it today. but there are other problems in the senate right now, senator tom cotton of arkansas, a republican, he tweeted this morning, house health care bill can t pass senate without major changes. to my friends in house, pause, start over, get it right, don t get it fast. so, even if it were to pass the house, you lose three republicans in the senate there, 52-48 majority, it s not going to go anywhere. it s not going to go anywhere. the problem with this bill is not only opposition from conservatives, hard line conservatives. more centrist republicans as well are concerned that i
boehner s surprised and pushed retirement. some gop insiders are telling our capitol hill producer that congressman ryan knows his demands are much too high for the hard liners. they ll never accept it. that s why he s making them. he can tell husbais backers, prt and future, i tried. one source calling the thing, congressman ryan s ruse. somehow, federal republicans give into all his demands, he d have the speaker job on his own terms. and with the blessings of all his colleagues. that s a long shot. none other than harry reid endorsed him. i m a fan. harry reid? think how that sits with the hard line conservatives. how not to win republicans and influence them. often in washington, things are not what they seem. john boehner tells fox news he expects to be out by the end of the month. then who watop the
stance that the people took on t in the poll. it s 20%. those are people that will go out to vote and contribute small amount to candidates and are engaged all of the time, writing letters to members of congress, calling up candidates. so i they are the ones that really get a response. political science studies show consistently that politicians respond to the people who are engaged. and so when you have consistent conservatives, hard line conservatives, those are the ones that the candidates are responding to. your thesis is that this overreliance on conservative outlets, not only fox but also talk radio and a variety of internet sites is driving the gop into a ditch. how so? well, i didn t exactly put it that way. what i will say about my paper is i interviewed dozens of republicans and it s really their conclusion to me.