that he was threatening to cut off. now he s saying he might pay them. they really would have a huge effect on obamacare, whatever he decides to do about them. he s got to get a deal on health care, and he s got to use leverage. if he can t work with the freedom caucus, he s got to get 40, 45, 50 democrats on board and 170, 180 republicans. that will mean not repealing it, right? they ll never get 40 republicans and 40 democrats, rather, for anything that the republicans would support. he s going to have to because health care is going to go under. maybe they don t call it obamacare, maybe they don t call it trumpcare, maybe they compromise. you don t think there s any chance that the freedom caucus, that obamacare 2.0 is better than obamacare 1.0? no. that would go against everything they promised their constituents
his anti-immigrant. they have changed so much and we have to protect the community. that speaker you referenced you may have seen or heard earlier today, he was asked in an interview about moving forward on health care and he said that he was worried that president trump, if freedom caucus members didn t come around, the president would start working with democrats. is there something on which you can see yourself working with the president? sure. let me j descridescribe how i ck with the president of the united states. if we took obamacare, i don t mibds calling it obamacare, took the aca, and let everybody to
include people who have been excluded and left planned parenthood alone i can work with president donald trump on expanding health care for the american people. the affordable care act, needs an improvement and needs to be modified. so that we can include more people and grant more people health care. if he wants to do that, i m ready to sit down. the hundreds of billions in save whags do they want to do with them. they want to give to the rich. i have another solution. look, why don t we legalize 11 million people, allow them to come out of the shadow, register with the federal government, learn english, learn about
with no democrat support, if the democrats, when it explodes, which it will soon, if they got together with us and got a real health care bill, i would be totally open to it and i think that s going to happen. okay, steve, should he have expected or was it realistic that democrats would work with him on this? no, this is not anything that was part of the republican strategy, republican leaders said we are going to pass this, with republican votes, we re going to do it the republican way, there was no outreach here, they were saying, look, we got the majority in the house, the majority in the senate, that s the trifecta we have been waiting for. the votes were there, with just the republicans if you could corral 215 of them, but they couldn t get 215 of them from their own party. this is president trump on the times of obamacare. i guess i m here, what, 64
national correspondent, i this is an important day, what do you think this does to the rest of the donald trump agenda? well, look, i think first of all, it is a wakeup call about the ability of this republican president and the congress to govern. republicans paul ryan talked about growing pains today. they controlled the house for seven years, they have had difficulty moving forward. i do think on issues like tax reform, there s much trying to do comprehensive individual tax reform as well as corporate, is too big a bite to bite off this year. but if they keep it to corporate, it won t be easier, nothing is easier, but it s something that the president wants to get to and also republicans. and within obamacare, that people are not talking much about, that there are something