one of them. i say the best thing you can do politically is wait a year because it s going to blow itself off the map. but that s the wrong thing to do for our country, the wrong thing to do for our citizens. yaush and he has said that over and over again. it s almost like that was his preferred approach to this. in speeches he has talked about it. one of the issues they ve had on this bill is they re stuck on the points of obamacare being a big disaster. in terms of this bill and how it will positively effect people s lives, they ve sort of latched onto free market. but when you get those hard numbers about how many people will be uninsured, about those hikes in terms of premiums about the lack of support.
votes, sure. i just don t see how he gets there. if his ultimatum is to say, well, okay, we re going to leave obamacare in place, i think a lot of republicans are saying you re only two months into your presidency, why don t you fight for what you promised? i really think about 95% of america has no idea who the freedom caucus is. probably 80% of them even know the speaker of the house is. i think david is right. i think it is going to go to house. listening very carefully to mark you re going to be surprised. i don t think it ll necessarily be a loss to the president. i think it ll be a loss to the
repeal obamacare knowing that it didn t really matter because obama was in the white house and he wasn t going to sign it, never mind the senate. but now he s not in the white house and now they have a republican in the white house, all of whom promised over and over again to do this. so that s the political reason that they felt that they had to tackle this immediately. and then the process reasonrom repealing obamacare will contribute to foigiering out a way to do tax reform which is probably going to be less controversial with house republicans, but you never know. i think it s interesting to say $300 something billion. i m going to ask kingston, i asked you during the break are
is don t hold me to this. probably, probably. i m going to go that far at this point. at the end of the day, although you do have many members who told me point-blank that they feel they can go back to their constituents and explain why they had promised to repeal obamacare but voted no on this because they didn t thinktist the right way to do it, at the end of the day that is whole lot harder to explain than i m the reason that many of the constituents are on obamacare and they are reaping those benefits from obamacare. exactly. and that s why you have i m just going to give you an
and why this is good for the country. and for him to say, well, maybe the best thing to do is to let obamacare continue but that wouldn t be good for the country. that s what he said. if that s what he believes am stead of walking away from this he needs to say we ve got to find a better away. he could have blamed the joint chief, he could have blamedizen hower. he could have blamed a lot of people. but you know what he did? he walked out and said it s my fault. i take responsibility. his popularity went up 10 points. and that s the mark of a leader. when he talks, everybody listens. but i want to say this because you make a very good point. this is from keirsten powers. from the freedom caucus guys she said they think the problem is