and remember, all this debate about pre-existing conditions is for those individuals that don t have health insurance through their employer. they have health insurance either through medicare, medicaid or they have to buy it themselves. and under obamacare, they had to go in these individual exchanges. we re keeping the individual exchanging. we re just making them voluntarily. if the state wants to opt out and create its own market, we re going to let that happen. how do you know what will be better? how do you know that their rates won t go up? and how do you know how much it will cost if there is no cbo score? i know that obamacare is failing. i know that federal mandates do not work. if they worked, everyone would love obamacare. but that s a different question. that s a different question than how do you know how this will work or what the prediction ks be without a cbo score.
give him time and he will get a great tax cut bill that will create jobs. then he is in a very strong position to walk through a bipartisan health bill that does what we want it to do replace obamacare with dramatically better future. it has to be done in that sequence. mr. speaker, people at home hear this idea. you hear speaker ryan stand up and say we can t do the bill the way we want to do it because of the rules. i think people at home think to themselves you guys make the rules. now you are saying the rules of procedure are stopping you from doing this? it sounds ridiculous. how do you respond to that? it is. it is. the congressional budget office is totally phoney. it s numbers are totally fake. the senate reconciliation rules are absurd. and to try to design a bill, which met both a fake score and absurd rule, it s just a bad strategy. i know why they tried to do it. i respect the fact that they were serious about it. but, in the end, when you have something that is life an
eric: caitlin, senator chucschumer said he would be willing to work with the president about the repeal of obamacare has to be off the table. they are taking a hard line. right it makes sense for democrats. look the obamacare law was the signature legislation of the democratic president. so it s really to surprise that democrats don t want to vote for repealing it in full. they have said from the beginning that they would work with the president and republicans to make fixes to the law. s about as we know, that is a starting point that can t be met by the most conservative members of the house. you bring up a great point. there are few now moderate democrat left. if you kind of add up the math, it doesn t really add up in terms of the coalition and the numbers that this president needs to get in order to pass legislation. and then if you talk about things like tax reform, there are vast differences between republicans within the house conference and plucks on the senate side. so yo
eric: you are watching the first lady, a rare public appearance by her in a speech at the state department. she is honoring 13 women of courage. it is the state department s international women of courage, a reception. among them are human rights activists and others. showing a symbol not only of women empowerment but also, what can be achieved in politics on a variety of issues. first lady melania trump addressing that reception in washington. the g.o.p. effort to repeal and replace obamacare not over yet with word that president trump s chief strategist steve bannon is in talks to resuscitate the g.o.p. healthcare bill which collapsed less than a week ago you will remember. joining us now form irhouse speaker newt gingrich who is a fox news contributor. sir, thank you for joining us. what s the first thing you would do differently this
to keep the repeat of obamacare alive. the repeal pardon me. big questions remain on how to reconcile the conservative and moderate wings of the party with more on all of this chief white house correspondent john roberts is live. john? jon melissa good morning to you. what role democrats might play in this. the president headed over to the white house last night. a bipartisan group of senators where he floated the idea of writing a new healthcare bill to replace the one that got pulled last week with a version that might attract the support of conservatives and moderates and republicans as well. also suggesting that he might employ a frequent tactic of the former house speaker john boehner that when conservatives refuse to come on board and support you, you reach tout democrats to get the vote you need. here s the president from last night. i know that we re all going to make a deal on healthcare. that s such an easy one. so i have no doubt that that s going to happen very quickly. i