if she is concerned the tweets are distracting what is going on in the senate as gop member of the senate try to craft a revised health care bill and try to get it through congress and to the president s desk. here is what she told me about those concerns from the left. you know, i think that is going to be up to the media and actually up to some of us that work in government. our job is to make sure that our citizens know that something really big is happening so i will tell you right now, something really big could happen if the republicans choose to draft a bill behind closed doors with no input from not just democrat, but a lot of republicans like susan collins who have publicly said that these there should be hearings and things shouldn t be done behind closed doors. we had over a hundred hearings for the affordable care act. we had countless amendments, including republican amendments that were accepted as part of
know about the senate republican health care negotiations. they are happening. and that is about it. at least at this point. this is all been behind the scenes. there has been no hearings and no public negotiations at all and that is by design. when you talk to senators who are familiar with this process, they make clear that senate majority leader mitchell mitch mcconnell wanted to give hit members a space to negotiate on very decisive issues whether the expansion of medicaid or cut back of obamacare regulations and the structure of that. all of these are issues within the republican party within their own conference there are major, major problem. but the result of that is nobody has any idea, at least outside the room, of what is going on. frankl frankly, some member inside do not. take a listen to this. yeah, i got a problem with it. if i m not see ago bill before we have a vote on it, that s just not a good way to handle something that is as significant
the moderate senator are susceptible to the pressure from the constituents over their process and undermines their argument what they are doing is better than the democrats when they are making a lot of the same missteps that democrat made when they passed obamacare in the first place. they were attacked constantly on the secrecy of how obamacare was put together. nancy pelosi s potentially era defining line when she had we have to pass the bill to see what is in it was a line that republicans ran on for years. now they are repeating some of those same mistake. democrats are also risking a lot by blockading the senate over this. i mean, in the minds of a lot of voters, oklahobstructing busine the senate might not be better than delivering health care policy behind the closed doors so a risk to each of how they go about the process of fighting health care or getting it through. julian, a good point.
in fact, their plan was obamacare. it s worth mentioning again and again that obamacare was the slightly more conservative version of romney care, a republican, which was a slightly more conservative version of something richard nixon proposed. so the only plan the republicans have ever had is obamacare. which is why they can t think of an alternative. also there s that issue of once you say we re going to take care of the people with preexisting conditions, there s a giant amount of intervention. everything occurs once you do that. right, because it s, the phrase they use is the three-legged stool. if you re going to let anybody buy health insurance who has a preexisting condition, to get more people into the insurance pool you have to have a mandate, which the republicans suddenly hate, but which is a concept invented by the conservatives at the heritage foundation and endorsed by president nixon and endorsed by governor romney.
so the standard has been dramatically altered. who could have imagined honestly, would you have someone weeks from being sworn in as president of the united states who would send out a deliberate falsehood saying that millions of illegal people voted in the election. there ought to be a stakeout about that. half the country is ready to accept that as the new way of life. and half the country is terrified that the prospect that this is what the next four years are going to look like. and we are really quite in a new ball game here and we ll have the most profound consequences. congressman adam schiff thank you for joining us. and you ve been hanging out with joe biden. coming up, republicans and repealing obamacare. they are now facing the reality of it, and think do not like the reality, so they have come up with a new trick for their obamacare repeal. and later, breaking news that i mentioned. joe biden openly thinking about running for president.