constituents rather than face those angry crowds. let s bring back our senior congressional reporter manu raju, some lawmakers thinking twice about having these town halls. that s right. some members have made it perfectly clear they don t believe holding these raucous town halls will be a use of their time, hoping to hold smaller meetings with constituents. hoping all this tension won t lead to a bigger problem which would be more than 20 gop defections in the house and two in the senate. that would derail their efforts to repeal obamacare. republicans getting an earful worried about president trump s plans to repeal obamacare. but some republicans are keeping a low profile and skipping town hall meetings altogether. are you going to host a town hall? reporter: senator marco rubio was confronted by one of his constituents in miami on thursday morning, asked why he
isn t holding town halls for his constituents. in eye hoe eye, in allentown protesters held their own events demanding senator pat toomey show up. congressman darrell issa was confronted by protesters gathered outside his district office. my hope is this morning we ll find a way to bridge these two groups. reporter: he later decided to skip a town hall meeting organized by some of his critics. i m sending staff there. they ll be there while i m here. reporter: in carson city, nevada, senator dean heller planned to have a friendly meeting with a local chamber of commerce, the meeting used press to have a town hall. the senator who is up for re-election said he d have a town hall on this condition, no booing from the audience. i ll do a town hall meeting if you promise one thing, that
you won t applaud. no applauding, all right? i ll tell you what? no booing. reporter: some republicans like florida congressman carlos crebello don t want something to go viral and be used by their opponents. he said he will not be part of any planned chaos events. on capitol hill, republicans are hoping to move a bill to repeal obamacare as soon as march. but they are stuck on some major issues including how to deal with the expansion of medicaid, providing coverage to 11 million low income americans. they re not expecting democratic support. given how partisan the environment is as illustrated by my friends outside, we re not expecting any democratic help on either of these major issues. reporter: as work takes shape behind closed doors, voters are growing anxious. we re going to use all our
the conservative meeting he skipped last year. where the conservative political action conference has become the trump political action conference. by tomorrow it will be tpac. reporter: with trump the face of the party and the conservative movement. trump team continuing to push back on the obama rules and transgender bathrooms. this issue was a huge example of the obama administration s overreach to suggest a one size fits all federal government approach. reporter: even as questions remain were trump far from a traditional ideological conservative can keep his party together. can this trump movement be combined with what s been happening with cpac and other conservative movements over the years. it has to and we have to stick together as a team. the truth of the matter is
bannon making a rare speaking appearance. phil mattingly was at the event. he s still there outside wa washington. we saw members of the trump team showing unity with conservatives and one another. that s right. a clear movement to teach with the conservative movement and any dissense you ve seen with the white house is not true. president trump agenda was laid out during the campaign and he plans on following through on everything he said. he s laid out an agenda with those speeches with the promises he made and our job is to execute all of that. mainstream media, understand something all of those are will be executed. reporter: steve bannon on stage with white house chief of staff reince priebus dismissing