what does it say? it raises questions about speaker paul ryan and whether he properly laid the ground work to manage a quick repeal and replacement during those years when they were vote after vote repealing obamacare when you knew president obama was going to veto it. and the thing that created great problems in these final hours are the president s own words where he was unable to explain how the pre-existing protections worked, focussed attention on the plan that is going to be voted on would give states the opportunity to get a waiver that could very well make coverage unaffordable for people with pre-existing conditions. that is one of the real fault lines. it is one of the things people like most about the accordable care act. the idea you are going to lose that protection for millions offer americans is something that makes it hard for conservative republicans to vote for. yeah. to be clear, it is not clear
from inside the meeting, that they do not have the votes to overturn obamacare, at least not now. so stay with us. we ll see if the speaker says that when he goes to the microphone urchlts you ll hear from him in just moments. in the meantime it was a side seen rarely from comedian jimmy kimmel. in tears last night as he revealed his newborn son billy underwent heart surgery just three days after he was born. he talked about the diagnosis, his treatment and the impact of the current health care debate in washington right now. listen. they did an echocardiogram, which is a son ogram of a heart and found that billy was born with a heart disease, something calling tetralogy of the lung with pulmonary atresia. he has a hole in the wall
their side and if they are not going to rebrand it and move forward and call it trump care and move on to a different topic, they re setting themselves up for a big defeat. all right, guys. go ahead. i was going to say we shouldn t lose sight of the fact that republicans are it is true they are closer now than ever before to repealing and replacing obamacare. you know, the house, the senate and the white house all controlled by the gop and i think we shouldn t underestimate how difficult it is for lawmakers to, one, buck the president and, two, buck the promise they had made for close to ten years. we will see. paul ryan, house republicans behind closed doors right now. we will see what they say. are they close tore the votes or not. guys, thanks very much. we are minutes away from the opening bell on wall street. president trump saying he s considering breaking up the big banks. wall street, though, maybe not buying it. let s see cnn chief money correspondent and star,
blocked add he has a hole in the weigh between the left and right sides. that was sound earlier. later in this 13-minute monolog, he talk about health care and how there are efforts to change health care laws, a recent effort to take away funding from the national institute of health. his idea is saying everyone across the country should want the best possibility health care in these situations. and nih just did get more. despite the attempts to teak away, he also urged people to donate to children s hospital. it s important to keep in minute whenever discussing health care. thank you, brian. this discussion about health care very pertinent right now. live on capitol hill, we are waiting to hear from house speaker paul ryi ryan. the rubs had been a closed-door
repeal obamacare. the bill is just two votes from going down, two votes from collapse. to be specific, two votes on another collapse of a policy that was republicans signature promise for years. something of a republican civil war over coverage with people with pre-existing conditions. and just like the actual civil car it isn t clear that the president understands the details. let s go live to capitol hill. paul ryan hosting a meeting right now. i assume counting heads yet again and we could get a sense very soon if this thing has any life left. absolutely. what you are looking at here is house republicans creating again once again a sense of urgency about getting something done on the house and pushing it over to the senate side. it is far from certain whether or not they are going to do that today. but, yes, they are meeting behind closed doors, that meeting having started in evenest and what will happen in less than an hour, we expect paul ryan as well as some of