you have ryan who very well knows he needs to attract enough k conservative votes. but not make too many changes to lose moderate votes. here is how he put it on thursday. clearly the main parts of the bill will stay exactly as they are. we are making improvements and refinements based on the feedback from members. the president of the united states is mediating this. the president is bringing people together around a table and hashing out differences so that we can get consensus document. the goal here is get to a bill that can pass. reporter: note at the end, speaker ryan taking pains to portray that. he and president trump, he believes are in sync as they push forward on the bill and trying to push ownership and responsibility for its passage back on donald trump. dave and christine. thank you. we know exactly how much former national security adviser
call the house bill preliminary and acknowledging work needs to be done. we re going to have he negotiation. house speaker paul ryan also conceding that his plan must change to pass the house. now that we have our score from the cbo that s something we re waiting for. now we have room to make refinements. a significant retreat from the earlier position that the bill would fail if big changes were made. ryan briselling at the question of whether it would pass as is. it s not coming up this afternoon. it s going through the legislative process. that legislative process hasn t been finalized. that s a goofy question or false premise. they can only afford to lose a few republican votes.
insurance nationwide, let people shop across state lines. deal with medical liability reforms so we can lower the practice of the defense of medicine, all those things dramatically lower the cost of health care. and, so, we re comforted by the fact we are on the right pact here. you mentioned i heard you re in the preview you had, this is legislating. we re listening to our members and making the kinds of refinements, the kinds of additions and improvements to the bill we think as i say gets the sweet spot gets the bill everyone likes, everybody can support because it s just really important we get this right. the reason it s really important we get this right is because obamacare is collapsing. we can t just sit back and watch it happen. we have an obligation and duty to do what we said we would do when we ran for office and that is replace obamacare with a much better system. i want to remind our viewers that cbo s estimate is within a year 12 million people would lose their heal
our conference. he is a constructive force to help us get to a resolution so that we get consensus on how to repeal and replace obamacare. it s been very helpful. so we are working hand in glove, listening to the concerns of our members. as you know, now that we have our score, we can start making improvements and refinements. melissa: the healthcare bill clearing a big hurdle in the house. the budget committee voted in favor of moving it forward despite two republicans voting against it. so, kevin, i have talked to a number of democrats over the past couple days who want to stick with obamacare. and when i asked them how do you deal with the fact that the health insurance companies are leaving and it that there is either one or no choices, they say the answer is simple, premiums have to go up and you pay for that with more subsidies. so more taxpayer dollars, working people transfer money from working people to healthcare companies. and they are not even embarrassed to give me that
that can actually pass on the house floor. those oppose no? no. reporter: with opposition growing. i m still a no. we need a couple big, big changes. reporter: house speaker paul ryan is cramibling launching a furious behind the scenes effort to wrangle the republican votes he needs to save the health care bill in the house. clearly the main parts of this bill are going to stay exactly as they are. but we re making those improvements and refinements base upon the feedback we re getting from our members. reporter: but the speaker s message not totally in line with president trump. these are going to be negotiated. we have to go to the senate, we re going to see what happens in the senate. reporter: ryan today trying to convince skeptics that they are on the same page. we are clearly in sync on this. we re working very hand in glove on this and the president s team. reporter: meantime the white house is stepping up their sales pitch. we believe strongly, strongly