because they promised this for seven years. this is their number one campaign promise. they have to do it to get onto anything else. bret: but are there going to be enough people who say we don t have to do this, because i didn t agree to this. in the end, they are going to say you cannot undercut a new president on his first big legislative bret: how much political capital will president trump invest in it? does it all of a sudden become ryan care? we don t know. he says he is in selling mode. he is going to go out there. bret: breitbart is already calling it ryan care. one of the things that strikes me as we are not seeing the campaign now. it s great if there is a campaign to come, find. where is it? why haven t they been building the case? i thought the president missed an opportunity in the joint session addressed to tell the
i don t think this bill passes. there is an evolution and something like it could pass or something with revisions could pass because ultimately the question leadership is going to post to conservatives and others is do you want to be for obamacare or this? bret: a binary choice. if you believe as philip klein suggests that this is basically obamacare lite. you are accepting the structure of obamacare and the philosophical underpinnings, that basically this is a question of universal access. rather than a question about cost and freedom to choose in quality and care and health outcomes. what do you gain? republicans want to own the politics of it. bret: that the tax credits are leveling the playing field, that it s a reverse of the subsidies and that it s leveling the playing field on taxes. and then market places, when you
story of obamacare. there are great stories to be told about how much damage obamacare is done. raising premiums, all of the stories that people like us who do this for a living know, but i don t think the story is well known and yesterday tom price took the podium and said obamacare is collapsing. you know the story. and i thought to myself, people don t really know the story. part of the john republicans will have is telling the story and republicans always like to jump to budgets and they like to jump to numbers than they like to jump to facts. part of what you have to do is tell the story, and they haven t taken the time to tell the story and i think now after you are receiving republicans beating each other up, telling the story now becomes harder. bret: part of the story is that the insurance companies are leaving. that s right. it is imploding, that s a fact. president trump has said he knows obamacare is going to be its own demise pretty soon but the responsible thing is to
different side to the war in syria. we are back with the panel. this is significant. i think it could be significant. what you have under president obama with respect to isis was fighting not to lose. the president didn t want to have attacks here on the u.s. homeland. he wasn t engaged in the way you would expect to win back the battle against isis. even though we had periodic successes. i think the difference is, donald trump is committed to win. he wants to defeat isis, as he said. at some point, he s going to have to explain this, talk to the american people about what he is doing. we heard reports about the increased air war against isis, hearing now but these ground troops. he s going to have to explain this. he has a long history of saying, we don t want to give her what we re doing, we need the element of surprise. bret: a fair point.
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