The speaker warned him off of that. Made very clear that the individuals that would be voting for this bill were many of the individuals that helped republicans secure and maintain the majority, told them it Wasnt The Best idea. That said, there was still a House Freedom caucus meeting that was scheduled with tom price and nick mulvaney. They allowed that to happen after it was clear after the meeting there would be no movement with the conservatives, the House Freedom caucus members. The call was made. President trump called the speaker and told him clearly it was time to pull the bill and that is exactly what happened and the ramifications of that arent just micro, not just this week or this bill. They are health care, period. Obamacare stands not just for now, not just for the next couple months butter for the foreseeable future. A lot of republicans talked about if this goes down maybe kind of go piecemeal, piece by piece, try to do this in smaller chunks than all at once but is th
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i had a robust discussion with him. that s the sort of discussion you have when you develop a working relationship and you work well together. and what came out of that was his clarity that actually he had been talking when he used that particular phrase he had been talking about a general level of debate. indeed, i had further conversations with him through the morning. when we come back here on newsroom the future of obamacare is in jeopardy. we ll take a look at the health care law s troubled past and what might happen in the future? it s a future donald trump doesn t want to see. let obamacare fail. it will be a lot easier. i think we re probably in that position where we ll let obamacare fail. we won t own it. i won t own it. i can tell you the republicans won t own it. we ll let obamacare fail and then the democrats will come to us and then they will say how do we fix it?
hammer out a bipartisan solution that doesn t increase premiums 60% let it fail, and then we ll fix it strategy? yes, but remember, one of the things that obamacare promised and president obama himself that your average family health care premiums would go down $2,500 per household. it s gone up 60% since 2013 when this passed. so is the president getting what he said back in july of? let it fail, let the obamacare july of 2017, let it fail, let obamacare fail, and you ll see the democrats come to the tab table. is that happening? that s what i m seeing happening. americans will do better with a bipartisan solution what does that matter to the 52 million people, using the number you quoted, who have pre-existing conditions, who wake up and don t know what it means for their future? obamacare has caused uncertainty in the markets since its inception this. is one more chapter of that in
kasie hunt, nbc news capitol hill correspondent. her new show on this network premieres sunday night at 7:00 p.m. eastern time. we re excited for that and also excited to welcome back after an absence of a few minutes peter baker from the new york times. appreciate you sticking around, peter. heidi you get what maybe the toughest question of the day. this is for all of our viewers who have just gotten home who may not have caught up. what happened? what did the president do to healthcare today, more broadly, obamacare today? was there cruelty? was there cynicism involved as some of the democrats have charged. they have talked about letting obamacare fail. this is is not letting obamacare fail. had is actively ambushing obamacare and they re being pretty up-front about it saying he didn t get his way in congress in terms of repeal and replace so now he s going to going after this law. what he did today is, according to healthcare experts who i talked to, potentially one of the mos