the losers are nancy pelosi and chuck schumer because now they own obamacare. mr. trump also implied he might eventually have to work with democrats to fix the law. it is unlikely to happen any time soon, eager to talk about anything else, the president spent his weekly address talking not about health care, not about tax reform, not about infrastructure, but about exploring space. this week in the company of astronauts i was honored to sign the nasa transition authorization act right into law. the blame game is in full swing. the president tweeted this just a few minutes ago. democrats are smiling in d.c., and the freedom caucus with the help of club for growth and heritage have saved planned parenthood and o-care while some republicans are blaming the white house and others are pointing at speaker ryan and still others like the president is pinning the fault on the freedom caucus. joining me now is a former member of the freedom caulk us
to say house speaker paul ryan needs to step down. is that what the president wanted people to hear? i have spent more time in the last week with the president of the united states than i thought i would, than four years. i ve never seen him blame paul ryan. why did he want people to watch her show? the people to blame were the people who would not vote yes and they would vote no and when sen to lee is here. the folks who voted no are the folks to blame. he is want blaming paul ryan at all? there is no subtle campaign to undermine paul ryan? i ve been in the oval office with the president and with the speaker more in the last couple of days than i ever thought. i ve never seen the president for a second try to blame paul ryan for this. all right. are you going to repeal and replace obamacare before the end of this year? my guess is we will move on. you are not touching health care. when it fails, and it may be may, and it may be the end of this year, folks will come bac
in politics, but out in america today people with serious or even moderateealth problems are wondering, where do i go from here? it is soec broen in waington. it s not going to get anything done. we did some voter interviews over the last couple of days. there was one that really stood out to me, and i ll play it here from a woman in wichita. trump voter. listen to this. you cannot slam something so incredibly layered and complex together in that many days. i don t care how many people are working on it. you cannot do it. it took them so much longer to craft aca and it still isn t correct. there has to be a balance. she gets it. one thing i don t think has been sufficiently appreciate side that the democrats expended an enormous amount of political capital to pass obamacare. it took 13 months to craft the law. president obama talked about it incessantly and mocked by republicans for pounding away at it. democrats lost 63 seats in congress and six seats in the
thanking republicans to replace the affordable care act. it seemed to be a victory lap for a non-existent win. she came out against the plan. she was a no on this, and it was interesting where they were nervous. it was des moines, it was darryl issa was in there and you had identified those folks. she brusted her own bracket is the way you look at it. but i don t know if anybody had a worse friday than paul ryan. i asked paul ryan about his bracket pick last week when i interviewed him and here s what he said to me. speaker ryan, do you have wisconsin in your final four? yes, i do, actually. i have them going all of the way, and i have a rematch with kentucky and we win this time. friday at 3:30 he pulls the bill and no more repeal and replace. friday night this is how with us wisconsin s season ended. oh, my goodness! oh, speaker ryan, i say
again, many of them would have supported the bill if it had come to the floor. it was a bizarre combination of who was against this bill and some folks on the freedom caucus. doesn t that tell you if the bill was flawed? if you can t win over conservatives and moderates who can you win? folks are paying attention to the wrong things. they re still paying attention to the special interestsnd being re-elected. what happened here is we got uck with obamacare and the people have been telling people how bad this program is and how harming it is to folks back home are the ones who prevented it from being replaced. that s what s so frustrating. the president is glad it s behind him. white house press secretary sean spicer said the president left everything on the field. i want to put up a bill a chart here. this is how long it takes to get big legislative items done. obamacare from start to finish was 187 legislative days and medicare part d, 166.