credits, things like medicaid are really where we heard the outpouring of criticism coming from many republicans. and so the goal today is to figure out areas where they can make tweaks, can make changes to make this bill more amenable to republicans and garner more support. and as we ve been talking about over the last 48 hours essentially since this bill has been released, many republicans have said very vocally up here on capitol hill, look, this bill in its current form is just not something that they can report. here is a sample of what we re hearing from republicans. this is not the repeal bill that we ve been waiting for for all these years. this is a huge opportunity that s been missed. the first thing republicans are bringing forward is a piece of legislation that says we repeal it but keeps medicaid expansion and actually expands it, that keeps some of the tax increases. that is not what we promised the american people we were going to do. reporter: going into this mark
they do want to get it done. there s pressure from the white house. they want to show they re accomplishing it in the first 100 days. but it s not a disciplined, organized thing. there are just too many republicans who are saying that they don t want it. so that s a problem within their house. and so far as we can tell, no democrats support it. bakari, we had to cut you off before, we wanted to ask you what democrats should do going forward. democrats appreciate the fact that individuals can stay on their health care until the age of 26. they also appreciate the fact that there will be preventive car and maternity care. those are the pieces they took from obamacare. the bad parts are the issues about gutting medicaid. you have 31 states which have medicaid expansion, and then states like mine who didn t have
that i have. they re not, sir. they re not, sir. i just showed you polling. and that s more recent polling. i m sorry. by the apology information that you just shared, hillary clinton is president. that s absolutely false. this is a pew poll of democrats and republicans and a broad swath of america. we know that polling results are determined to a large degree by the way in which you phrase the question. if you were to share with the american people the kind of collapse that are going to occur soon with obamacare because it is financially unsustainable, if you share with them the continuing huge hikes in insurance premium costs caused by obamacare, then the numbers shift quite dramatically in favor of repeal. i ve been in elected office off and on since 1982, three decades, and i know how polls can be used to try to enhance a position even though that polling data does not reflect the true attitudes of the american people. and that pew poll that you cite, i would respectfully s
coverage or losing health care and then having some sort of if between period so you get new health care. that s one of the reasons why obamacare, i think you see in these poll numbers, it s his all-time high since it was passed, because democrats were brilliant on this issue. they fearmongered and said the republicans are going to take away your health care and you may not have coverage for a time before you get their new plan. this proves, this bill proves that will never happen and the republicans have to go out there then and let the people know that and then work through this to get them something that people agree with. i ultimately think you ll see this probably passed. i think it s going to be a little bit different than what it is right now. i do think because every republican, paul ryan was smart about this today, he reminded every republican out there, you ran on this issue. if we don t do this, every one of you is going to have to go back home and run for reelection and y
this bill was intentionally put forth as less conservative than it will end up being. why can insurance companies crossing state lines, why wasn t that put in there? president trump put that repeatedly on the campaign trail. it wasn t put in there because president trump plans on offering that as a gift for conservatives along with negotiating drug prices. i think all these conservative proposals were left out intervention because these will be the carrots given to republicans. it doesn t solve the medicaid issue. those worried about the medicaid issue, he s got to thread this needle politically. baccari sellers, are democrats sitting back and eating popcorn while watching this or will they