house is going to be up for re-election. a number of the senators are going to be up for re-election in 2018. and they don t want to be tied to or handcuffed by racism and by any kind of appearance of support for the clan or white nationalist. they want it to be known by their constituents that they don t stand with any of that. so the president is going to have to work hard to regain their trust, their confidence. he needs to pass tax reform, infrastructure. it would be great if there was something done about health care, if they re able to pass a healthcare bill that would help greatly. but they re not going to be able to get all that done by midterms. if kelly is like santa claus where do you think p steven miller and sebastian gorka are. you know, we forget that the laws have to be passed by congress first before they go to the president, so a lot of of focus isn t on the president s aides. it should be on congress and they need to do the things that joe just laid out, starting
release an estimate about how stopping these payments could change the number of people who have insurance. sandra. sandra: how is the house freedom caucus trying to move the obamacare debate forward in congress? they re trying to get enough signatures on a petition to speaker ryan to bring a straight obamacare repeal to the floor of the house. freedom caucus leader mark meadow says, quote, this bill was a two year delay on implementation of repeal will force congress to come together on a replacement bill. president trump is eager to sign repeal and replace. it s time we get to work and send both to his desk. this is something president trump talked about yesterday in new jersey. congress voted many times to repeal obamacare when they knew president obama would veto it but they haven t been doing the same now that they ve got a president who will sign it into law. that could change if his petition is successful. sandra: all right. peter doocy, thank you. for more on this, alabam
congressman mo brooks. he is running for the senate seat vacated by attorney general jeff sessions. he joins me now. congressman, thank for being here. my pleasure. sandra: so what is the plan to move forward on obamacare? well, on the house side, we ve been working. it s unfortunate that the senate decided to quit when we thought they were going to work until we got this issue resolved. even in the house it was very difficult. we had a first bill that wasn t so good. we were able to replace it with a better bill. we were able to get it out of the house. 217-211. and what this current discharge petition effort is, is to revert back to the bill that we passed in 2015 and keep our promise to the american people. i ll be one that will be signing that discharge petition to try to force a house floor vote on a repeal of obamacare, thereby helping keep our promise to the american people on one hand and cut into those huge increases and insurance costs that are oppressing the ability of
garrett i want to talk about the trust level between insurance companies and the state and also we what went down through this whole process. right now the trust level is really low. this is a reliably republican county in northwest ohio. these are people who have been voting for the repeal of obamacare and the replace and repeal of obamacare and then voted with president trump kind of promising great health care for everyone and they don t feel like they re getting what they are voting for. we spent the day talking to a lot of different folks who care on obamacare plans in the exchanges. people have gotten used to this. the plans have become incredibly ingrained in communities like this one. take a listen. i would love to see changes because i m not real happy with the plans we have right now and the way things are going. but if we can get i have to have something. what i ve got now, i m happy with. if it can get better, i m all for it. that s sort of incapsulates
they re talking to you, when they re talking to lobbyists, when they re talking to donors, it s a whole different world. are you saying that i m trying to follow your logic. you re basically showing a parallel in that we re talking about the president of the united states saying one thing, and his press secretary sort of saying another, and a lawyer saying another, and that s just like the dysfunctional congress who says one thing to us on tv and another to the constituents? are you equating the two? the well, robbie had mentioned the control republicans have and the dysfunction over there and i certainly agree there s dysfunction over there but it s because a good swath of the republican senators didn t tell the truth about what they were really going to do on obamacare when they finally had the opportunity. and so now, at a slim margin of 52-48, because they aren t keeping their promises, and that s it, they can t pass a repeal of obamacare. so, now go down the street to the