care bill and a number of your colleagues have said it s dead on arrival and do you think the coverings in the last couple days will make it more palatable to the senate? the first step is to have the house pass it which i m confident it will then it will be the senate s turn. we ll have opportunities to change the bill and differences will be reconciled and i hope we ll be able to pass it in the senate and get it to the president. this is pretty basic promise we ve made at least the last three elections to repeal and replace obamacare and i think it s important to keep your promises and then work through the process to make sure people have more affordable health care choice. shannon: we ll see how he does on the hill and watch you with the questions with neil gorsuch today. all right. we ll have complete coverage of the upcoming gorsuch hearing as soon as it begins in half hour
they re setting this thing up and to a.b. s point, if that vote doesn t happen it s a very bad sign for the legislation. part of it could be the strategy might be sort of daring members to vote no. sort of a game of chicken. you re either going to vote to repeal and replace obamacare or cross president trump and link arms with nancy pelosi as a new test of the new congress. that s throwing down the gauntlet big time and it s a full-court press on capitol hill. shannon: it absolutely is. chris, we saw a little bit of this public calling out when the president had members of the rnc a very conservative group they d be together with him in the white house last week and he said everyone in here was a no or leaning no or had serious questions. we ve had our meeting. they re all yess now.
and ways and means committee weeks ago and introduce manager s amendment to take aim at medicare expansion provisions. it will end years earlier on december 31, 2017. there s a provision for states to require able-bodied medicare recipients to do service and give block to the states to dole out as they see fit opposed to the federal government providing for each enrollee as provided for obamacare. president trump is throwing a bone to conservatives. one holdout rand paul why he was rallying last night selling the need to repeal and replace obamacare. some states only have one insurer left and in new york
summits and this president is so engaged so different from obamacare where people thought then-speaker nancy pelosi was doing the hard work of twisting arms and getting people on board. this president seems fully invested. well he said that last week and that was an important moment because republican members did not think he was fully invested. there was an effort by staff to distant the president from people on breitbart news were calling it ryan care and you had strategists steve bannon meeting with the most conservative members the house freedom caucus promising them changes to the bill that would scare off moderates and it was important last week for president trump to say to cameras committed to the effort and behind the bill. that was very reassuring. now you have by some estimates are 25 for the bill and it can t
here s the president again. i happen to like a lot senator rand paul. i do. i look forward to working with him so we can get this bill passed in some form so that we can pass massive tax reform which we can t do until this happens. he said we ll get the bill passed in some form to get to taxes. it s pretty clear to the president and his supporters it s tax reform he really wants to get to he just has to get through obamacare repeal and replace first and serious arm-twisting a packed crowd in a 19,000 seat arena. he knows how to put the pressure on. and gracious words for the senator after all he wrote the art of the deal. gracious words for the senator and then 19,000 people saying get with it.