congressman darrell issa is outspoken about the law. he said no one should assume the latest house bill is doomed to failure. when it fails will you go how dare you presume a failure. how dare you? how dare you? how dare you presume a failure. the fact is the fact is this country is based on people saying they won t do things. at the end of the day, coming together for compromise. okay. everyone, sit down for a moment and watch this interview because congressman issa is standing by at the capitol with dana bash. take it away. reporter: thank you. thank you for joining us. are you going to yell at me? only if you presume that somehow a senate that says they won t compromise means anything we offer we haven t offered anything yet, is dead on arrival. it s not the american way. reporter: since you made that statement earlier today, the president of the united states
president they won t compromise, it s their way or no way, the interesting thing is president obama said elections have consequences. it turns out they only have consequences when he wins. the majority of american people are represented by republicans here in the house, somehow there s no consequences. reporter: he s not the only person that said that. john mccain knows about running against the president. he said, himself, elections have consequences. we lost not once, but twice the white house. they didn t win back control of the senate. you are very successful businessman, you know simple math. you have the votes here to do what you want. the senate is run by democrats and never mind the white house, which is the president is a democrat. the president will shut down the government. the senate will shut down the government if they won t
who does have a say in this issued a veto. the president will talk to and compromise a dictator with iran, but won t talk to john boehner and reach a compromise on a bill, he himself, delayed more than eight times. the president delayed all kind of things in this bill that isn t ready. the president knows that so-called medical tax will lose money, not make money. it jacks up the cost of everything we use from stints to replacement hip and so on, not that you have one. you look at this and realize there are things that should be negotiated. the president said give me everything, then we ll talk about it. this is the time to say there are things we know are not right in obama care and delay in this case so americans are not forced to buy health care before they know what s it in. it s a good idea. reporter: this line is not a bad line saying the president
negotiate a compromise. now speaker boehner has to compromise with us. he would love to compromise between republicans and democrats. speaker pelosi didn t compromise and she s not in the mood for compromising now. i tweeted out today that we started off wanting to do with health care was take care of problems, pre-existing conditions and portability. we said in a sense, this has been said by hillary clinton, it s been said by john kerry, one after another famous politicians, senator kennedy, late senator kennedy said the american people should have the same health care the president, the vice president, members of congress and the senators and every federal employee has. instead of giving them what we have, we are telling them they have to take a pig and the pope. right now, those exchanges are unknown. when people in the house, myself included feel strongly they should know what they are getting before they are forced
will negotiate with the president of iran, but not you all. let s cut through, i know it s hard i can use putin. reporter: it makes it hard to be candid. i know you are a candid guy. the reality is the speaker isn t somebody he can negotiate with now. he s negotiating with you all, not necessarily you, but your republican brethren to figure out what kind of combination or formula he can get votes on, never mind negotiating with the president. there s no point in negotiating with something you can t pass. the fact is, trying to protect the american people, trying to bring certainty for the next year is something we believe very strongly. the speaker has 218 votes for that. he won t have a single democrat, perhaps. this is a compromise we are trying to do and when we keep hearing from the senate and the