a huge rally in pennsylvania avenue to talk about the 100 days and what he said he accomplished. he insists health care will get done. members of the freedom caucus on this show mark meadows insisting health care gets done. how does it get done? i m not sure it does get done. the ral is in order to get house caucus to agree to this version of the bill, there was an amendment that said states could opt out of pre-existing conditions. i understand president trump wants a bill that would continue to cover pre-existing conditions but that s not the current bill that has some chance of getting through the house. that bill still doesn t have the votes to get through the house. as of friday the reason they didn t take the vote on friday was because paul ryan and his people looked around and said we can t pass this. on top of that, if we tried to, democrats would revolt on the spending bill and we would have the government shutdown. so now we re passed the shutdown but the problem with the h
is working together in some frictionless way, it was the first time the president s team talked to democrats. they had to give a ton to get this done to democrats. if you re someone who thinks there s potential to work with democrats on issues they lay the groundwork to know each other s phone numbers. that s ad start. put this behind us, keep the government open, president trump wants to focus on health care. that s checked off. current republican health care bill gives states the ability to opt out of covering pre-existing conditions if there s access to a high-risk pool. here is president trump s take on the current version of the bill. he was speaking with cbs news. pre-existing conditions are in the bill. i just watched another network than yours and they were saying pre-existing is not covered. pre-existing conditions are in the bill. and i mandate it. i said, it has to be. this bill has evolved. we don t have a file you re on the bill. it was reported like a failure.
conservative enough to get freedom caucus, alienates a bunch of people in the middle. one of the realities in washington i kept hearing all week, because i was there all week, there are a lot of house members looking at this thing saying, you know what, we may not like obamacare but the politics of this are so ruinous, if we end up passing something, whatever it is that would get through this body, would destroy a lot of political careers for republicans in the middle or moderate republican caucus. i don t know there s a bill that will ever get done that is tenable politically for enough republicans that it could actually get through and then let alone get to the senate. just through the house. you know what s interesting as well as intriguing. it s kind of difficult semantically following the president in his interview there with john dickerson. he in singtively know dropping pre-existing condition would be as dangerous as dynamite. people are used to it, they like
the one thing i wouldn t have done is put a time line. the second iteration i didn t put a time line. we have now pre-existing conditions in the bill. we ve set up a pool for the pre-existing condition so the premiums can be allowed to fall. when i watch some of the news reports, which are so unfair, and they say we don t cover pre-existing conditions, we cover it beautifully. i ll tell you who doesn t cover pre-existing conditions, obamacare. you know why? it s dead. in one of the fixes discussed pre-existing it was optional for the states. in one of the fixes. not permanent. of course. this was a development, sir. you re saying pre-existing for everybody. this has evolved over a period of three or four weeks. now, we really have a good bill. i think they could have voted on friday. i said, just relax. don t worry about this phony 100 day thing. so the phony 100 day thin, let s put that to the side.