making. they haven t tried 0 build a coalition. do the minimal option. and alex, is it possible just by presenting it, just from having rolled up their sleeves secretly going into negotiate it and brepresenting it they ve fulfilled their promise to come up with something that actually doesn t have to pass? or would it be political suicide for them if they didn t vote on it and it didn t pass? an open question whether the republican base will punish lawmakers if they don t literally repeal obamacare or whether a sense, look, gave it a shot but the washington swamp is a rough one. to john s point, they re caught between, yes, the harm to constituents and pledge to repeal obamacare and caught between the conflicting promises they ve made about repealing obamacare. they didn t just say we ll get rid of this law. they said we ll get rit of the law and replace it with
not have the ability to make him step down. brian: meanwhile, something else is bothering the president. how do you know he? tweeted about it. clearly he is not happy with the way this whole healthcare plan worked out. it didn t pass through the house. ainsley: he was also tweeting about this. this is russia with hillary clinton. steve: sure, regarding the nunes thing. why isn t the white house looking into the bill and hillary deal that allowed big uranium to go to russia. russian speech money to bill, there was a lot of that is correct the russian-hillary reset. pray of of russia. trump russia story is a hoax. what he is talking about the op-ed story when john podesta became a special counselor to the united states barack obama he did not reveal that he a financial tie to a russian company with ties to the kremlin. that is against the law for not revealing that. and if somebody in this administration had something like that going on, don t you think it would be on the cough of the n
be disappointed the republican party did not deliver to them. we have to hear some bites from members back home who are members back home disappointed with the president. i don t like the repeal of obamacare at all. i feel like it was pushed through and now trump is trying to push through something, but at least he s honoring the other votes. i m happy that it didn t pass. let s just if it didn t pass, leave it the way it is for now. if you can t agree behind the scenes, leave it alone. let it just be what it is until you can do something better. obamacare, as it stands, i think they need to focus on bigger issues and keep keep this plan going. as you can hear, constituents back home are very divide over what should happen to the affordable care act and i think what we can expect moving forward is that members of
acknowledgement that there will have to be a plan b. no. is there sort of plan if the plan doesn t pass? no. it s going to pass. so that s it. well, it didn t pass. it didn t pass. and look, again, it s his job to go out and be optimistic and talk for his boss. it s one of the toughest jobs. we both covered the building. there is questions about the credibility of the president, the things that the president says in that podium. now there is a performance question. rebecca is right. this is a preexisting condition, they were there when john boehner was speaker. he left town. they frustrated him. the fractures in the republican party are preexisting conditions. this is why donald trump won. if you re a senator and republican he was and he said this himself i alone. he was the businessman who was going to be able to negotiate these big, tough deals.
am under. i will lose my education which i am paying for, i will lose my occupation as a sign language interpreter, mainly because my parents are deaf, and ultimately sent back to mexico, a place i don t know. no. and i will be separated from my entire family. what can you do for dreamers as myself, and families who are distraught on the idea of being separated? [ applause ] the dreamers are so spectacular and so inspirational to all of us. and that is why when we had the majority in the congress, the house of representatives, led by our congressional hispanic caucus, past the dreamers act. it didn t pass the senate. because the you needed 60 votes. we didn t have 60 votes there. but the president in the absence of congressional action, issued the executive order to protect the dreamers.