We had no democrat support. We had no votes from the democrats. They werent going to give us a single vote, its a difficult thing to do. Ive been saying for the last year and a half that the best thing we can do politically speaking is let obamacare explode, it is exploding right now. Its many states have big problems. Almost all states have big problems. I was in tennessee the other day and theyve lost half of their state in terms of an insurer. They have no insurer. That is happening to many other places. I was in kentucky the other day, and similar things are happening. So obamacare is exploding with no democrat support exploding we could not get there. We were a couple of votes short in terms of getting our bill passed. A lot of people do not realize how good our bill was. They were looking at phase one, but when we at phase two, which was mostly because of secretary signings of secretary price, and phase three which i think we would have gotten, it would have been a great bill. Pr
Paul ryan took a trip down to the white house, have lunch with has lunch with the president , comes back and hold an emergency meeting, telling them, no microphones from what i am told saying guess what, here is the deal. No book, i will not put you on the chopping block. Were pulling it. I do not know when it will come back up. So how many votes were we talking about . Are there any Freedom Caucus members who decided to vote yes . Molly it is interesting. As the morning went on, the no votes were piling up. If they are going the opposite direction it is interesting watching the first round of votes on the floor. Speaker ryan talking to 1, 2, three people. It was clear from his body language that he was not happy. Once these members dug in, it was just about placating them. Vice president mike pence went to the with the Freedom Caucus party members, and it was clear that they were not going to support the bill. Are there any nearterm prospects for help legislation now in the house . Mo
Be sure to watch cspans washington journal. Live at 7 00 eastern on saturday morning. Sunday night on q and a, a conversation with thomas soul, who recently retired from the column he wrote for 25 years. Unlike todays left, i never felt i had to avoid being what people with different views thought. So during all of my years as a marxist, i Read Everything the political spectrum. There is a book on burke i first read when i was an undergraduate at harvard. I treasure that book. I can tell even then. I understood that there were reasons why people have different views. It is not just a question of being on the side against the forces of evil. I think the new administration in washington has some very good people, better than most of than most recent administrations have had. The only question is if the in washington has some very good president will listen to them, and we will not know until more time has passed. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern. Now, we will show you some of the four hour f
We had no democrat support. We had no votes from the democrats. They werent going to give us a single vote, its a difficult thing to do. Ive been saying for the last year and a half that the best thing we can do politically speaking is let obamacare explode, it is exploding right now. Its many states have big problems. Almost all states have big problems. I was in tennessee the other day and theyve lost half of their state in terms of an insurer. They have no insurer. That is happening to many other places. I was in kentucky the other day, and similar things are happening. So obamacare is exploding with no democrat support exploding we could not get there. We were a couple of votes short in terms of getting our bill passed. A lot of people do not realize how good our bill was. They were looking at phase one, but when we at phase two, which was mostly because of secretary signings of secretary price, and phase three which i think we would have gotten, it would have been a great bill. Pr
Paul ryan took a trip down to the white house, have lunch with has lunch with the president , comes back and hold an emergency meeting, telling them, no microphones from what i am told saying guess what, here is the deal. No book, i will not put you on the chopping block. Were pulling it. I do not know when it will come back up. So how many votes were we talking about . Are there any Freedom Caucus members who decided to vote yes . Molly it is interesting. As the morning went on, the no votes were piling up. If they are going the opposite direction it is interesting watching the first round of votes on the floor. Speaker ryan talking to 1, 2, three people. It was clear from his body language that he was not happy. Once these members dug in, it was just about placating them. Vice president mike pence went to the with the Freedom Caucus party members, and it was clear that they were not going to support the bill. Are there any nearterm prospects for help legislation now in the house . Mo