that the house overcalculated. paul ryan put on the table not only just repealing the expansion of medicaid that was part of the affordable care act, he went further. he tried to cut medicaid. so you have a lot of senators who represent entire states, not just a congressional district, they talked to their governors and those governors in republican states were like, no, this is a bad idea. let me ask you, now that the area is clear, i do think the fight is over. you re in the senate chamber. if it s over, if the republican attempt, they weren t able to win this battle, if that s the case what s the political responsibility of the democratic members in the senate and house to fix obamacare? do you take the initiatives or wait for the republicans to do it? the issue has got to be a constant discussion between all our colleagues. now, there are moments i think
one thing we have to investigate is the compromise the russians have not necessarily the se lay shous stuff but maybe money laurnding. i think they re behaving over here like they do over there with oligarchs giving misinformation. it smells like russia at their worst. thank you, congressman adam schiff. keep up the good work for the country. i m proud of the media because we wouldn t know anything about this story. coming up president trump said repealing and replacing obamacare would be easy. but his own party can t get the votes to pass the replacement plan, they don t have the votes to rerepeal it either. plus trump blames the democrats for the death of trump care. what what should the democrats be doing now to save obamacare
which senators are okay with keeping obamacare and which senators wish to reveal obamaca repeal obamacare. if you have a vote and you get a count less than 50 for straight repeal, what will that do to the senators who have to run for re-election who are republicans who voted for straight repeal, do you think they ll be okay? i think that s going to be difficult for them and that has to be part of the calculation. and maybe when that day dawns, maybe they will consider an alternate strategy. chris, this is too important to do in a press release. this has to be on the floor of the senate, put your card in i guess they don t do that. but they have to be recorded yes or no. people need to know where you are. do you believe health care is a right. i told you. it s a responsibility. no. is it a right like life or is it a right like the right to bear
actually makes so much more sense from my perspective because i have to tell you when i go across the street to the hubert hum free building it s so big it s so difficult for anyone to get anything done. for people to interface with that. were we better off before obamacare was established? were we better off. i don t think there s any questions that we were. the issue for me on the affordable care act i m trying to get to the legislation. why don t we go back to that? if you believe we re better off without obamacare, why doesn t your party go back to repeal? why not just do that? you know that was passed in the house and the senate, december of 2015. the senate, the president at the time vetoed the legislation. when i talked to people back
for months on the campaign trail donald trump boasted about how easy repealing obamacare would be. let s watch him. we re going to be submitting, as soon as our secretary is approved, almost simultaneously, shortly thereafter, a plan. it ll be repeal and replace. it will be essentially simultaneously. it will be various segments, you understand, but will most likely be on the same day or the same week, but probably the same day, could be the same hour. he s going to come to see me and go mr. president, the people in wisconsin are tired of winning so much. you re winning the health care. you re going to have such great health care at a tiny fraction of the cost and it s going to be so easy. easier said, at least for