later. gun wondering if they are equally committed to swift action. we believe that that needs to be the very first part of march if it is going to be march. and we need to finally vote on what ultimately will come back from the senate. the interesting is that we were going to wait for the retreat. now we are waiting for march. are we going to wait for august recess? i certainly hope not. we want to move ahead as quickly as we can sing the democrats are obstructing what we want to do on the floor of the sentence, so we are continuing to work on this. we have meetings on it every day. continuing to work on legislation. speaker ryan has also sought to substituting repair for repeal and replace. you can ask repair obamacare. it is a collapsing law. by its 18 million americans would lose health coverage if the affordable care act were repealed without a replacement
it is not understood by the american people. and most important i appreciated by them. if that will be a problem for republicans. but there was no gun to the republicans had to like there was for democrats to jam something grew. we have done that to work. repeal and replace has to be done thoughtfully. we must have bipartisan support for this in order for it to work properly. jon: so regarding the politics of it it seems like if people are as happy with obamacare as many democrats say, then they are not going to mind living under it for another year or whatever it takes. the people who would be most disappointed would be the most ardent supporters, right? i think both. thought presidents ardent supporters recognize that the administration has not completely kept its word. and a lot of democrats are very nervous that the attendance of obamacare, affordable health care for extending coverage as i indicated is up to
is telling bill o reilly a replacement or parts of it would come likely within this year. he also left some room for the changes to come in the next year as well. that is the contestants. live in a d.c. bureau with more. recognizing the disappointment that people could see telling bill o reilly that obamacare cannot be appealed till next year. but then quickly added that his administration should have something proposed by the end of this year with more to come in 2018. the time frame by one the republicans controlling the house and senate would be able to move legislation repealing the affordable care act even if they left some parts of the signature domestic program in place appears to have shifted. after the republican retreat, paul ryan outlined an aggressive repeal slated for rollouts on the hill in march. now the leader of the house freedom caucus which prizes small government and reduction, tries to appeal sooner than
speaker paul ryan was asked about that repair language yesterday and here is what he said. i would say there s just a miss communication or miss interpretation of what we re trying to say, our job is to repair the american health care system and rescue it from the collapse it is in and the best way is to repeal an repair obamacare. trying to stress nothing has changed in the g.o.p. strategy, but in conversations i ve had with republican lawmaker there s a lot of nervous energy that somehow this big goal they have had for years is now getting watered down. mj, thank you so much. let s get in eugene scott, and let s move off the rs in obamacare. slap happy.
this name-calling, it is not productive. harris: when you have a shiny object like this, people wonder can t things get done? you can multitask on the hill but no doubt this is a distraction. i noticed you use the same words he used about the white house, how do you get forward, how do you get beyond that? i think we are meeting and i just got out of a meeting with our ways and means committee, we ve been working on this for seven years and we just do our job as we did with the budget and the repeal and replace of obamacare and so many other measures, they haven t even started to take them up, they need to get to work. harris: no doubt. the speaker of the house as you guys are willing to work through christmas to get things done, i don t know about the senate, we will have to see what happens. let s talk about health care and where you really are. i understand the bipartisan bill on the table will give us a cbo