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judiciary committee will have 20 minutes to question neil gorsuch on his record and values and the question is whether the democrats will question the judge on his history and statements or president trump s. before that the president set to head to capitol hill to try to twist arms on health care after paul ryan tweaked the bill to appeal to the more conservative branch of the party. the president making the argument last night at the rally in louisville that obamacare needs to be addressed. time for democrat leaders in washington take responsibility for the bill they and they alone created. remember what president obama said if you like your plan you can keep your plan if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor. if they told the truth about obamacare it would be so wonderful for the people of this
there s a lot of this publicly putting people on the spot. as guy said calling for the vote and saying this is it. this is your binary choice. that sends a message. well, it does. the stakes are quite high. trump isn t really negotiating within the policy space. one of the most striking things is how little anybody s talked about the policy. it s a patch. this is a lame effort that keeps obamacare essentially alive long enough to deflate it at a safe pace. the objective of this legislation is to get enough money to the insurance industry, keep things propped up for long enough so other phases of the legislation can get into place. it s like putting obamacare into hospice. no one s talking about policy republicans are now not talking about health care policy. they re talking about this in regard to what you discussed earlier which is if we do this then we can have tax cuts. if we do this then we can do the trillion-dollar stimulus
replacement for obamacare. they would have done something different. it s a reflection of the values trump talked about in that more aggressively and phases the medicare repeal over years and provides subsidies and did things republicans previously didn t want to do. this is a bill mulvaney and ryan crafted with an eye to satisfying trump s demands for a more polulist approach. shannon: many want to pump the breaks. we re watching and waiting for the president s arrival. you see kellyanne conway and part of the president s advisors as they come in to talk to house gop members and try to rally them and get a unified front on this. a.b., this is by washington standards a break-neck pace.
state it s worse. thursday is our chance to end obamacare and the obamacare catastrophe and begin delivering the reforms people deserve. there s a question whether republicans have the votes to pass this 237 members in the house. it takes 216 to get the simple majority. the president will have work cut out for him today but he is confident he ll be able to get this thing through later on this week, eric. we ll see what he says when he reaches the hill. meanwhile it seems the president is upping the ante because he s tying it to tax reform. because of the rules in the senate it s a reconciliation bill. the repeal and replace of obamacare has to be done first before he can get to the tax cut. last night at the big arena in louisville using that as a lever with senator rand paul to say, hey, if you want your tax reform which a lot of people want you have to get your health care first.