Bricking news, the move to repeal obamacare collapses. This is chn tonight. Im don lemon. The senate does not have the votes to pass a Health Care Bill. Tonight President Trump calling on republicans to repeal obamacare now and just start from a clean slate. Can that happen . Well discuss now. I want to begin this hour with White House Correspondent Kaytlin Collins and political commentator david swird lick. Good evening to both of you both. This is from the Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell. He said regretfully, it is now an apparent that the effort to repeal and immediately replace the failure of obamacare will not be successful. He said the next move will be in the coming days the senate will vote to take up the house bill with the First Amendment in order being what a majority of the senate has already supported in 2015 and that was vetoed by then president obama. A repeal of obamacare with a twoyear delay to provide for a stable transition position to a patientcentered Health
was in obamacare. what was in the affordable care act. there is no republican that s leading this charge. you have mike leann ted cruz out here on a limb, senator mcconnell doing his own thing, paul ryan doing his own thing. there s no force there driving the party. barack obama was that force and that s why the affordable care act got passed. donald trump, i mean, with all due respect in his ability to speak to the common man does not have any idea about health care policy. that is an apparent. and because he doesn t november or that knowledge base, it s not necessarily an indictment against him. it s not his bailiwick. but to start off with that first piece of major legislation, you have to be a drum major for something. they re a banded with no drum majors. that is the republican party. do you want to respond to that, scott? because you know, they re saying that you re saying that the voter, the conservative voter who voted for donald trump thought they were going to repeal and re
he wanted to cover more people. now he s leading a party though that has a bill that essentially will shrink care according to the cbo. so it s an unnatural position for the president and he has not campaigned forcefully for it. that s where we are right now. kaytlin, will they have the votes if mitch mcconnell wants to do, will they have the votes for a straight repeal. it s not likely. it gebs them the chance to say they tried. tonight as mike leann jerry moran said they were not going to support this bill, donald trump and mike pence were hosting other senators at the white house in hopes of getting more support for the bill. they re starting over here. these senators said they weren t going to support any kind of changes to this bill, they wan odd start from scratch. mish mcconnell definitely has his hands full with this. david, how do you repeal something? he says what he wanted to do. he wants to do the first amendment in order of being what a majority of the senate has a