urging my colleagues to tell the truth and let simply do what we did. at lower premiums and make health insurance more affordabl affordable. recognize that obamacare is a dismal failure for millions of americans. that was senator ted cruz from texas addressing the media. he is in the vote tonight. he saying that the senators are going to go back and talk to their constituents in their state and they re going to realize just how disappointed that they are, especially these republicans who campaigned on having a repeal of obamacare. bret baier is still on the phone with us. you heard what he s had to say on tonight. he believes they will come back and discuss this one again. this was a candidate for president. you can hear how many times he talked about obamacare on the
upset about the vote tonight tonight. what can we do as viewers, as voters in our homes, what can you do moving forward? you need to call your representatives in your senators. be they republican or democrat and say to them, i voted for this to get fixed. i don t want this to hurt people, i wanted to help people, and i wanted to stop jacking up the cost of my health care, and to stop hurting for small businesses the same time. and, you have to make them less impaired democrats were very smart and that they did organize early and hard against this. they flooded everyone and every republican senator. one of the big problems of the republicans have out of the gate when it was the house bill and in the senate bill, we were always on the defensive, saying, it s on this. we lobbed the narrative battle to the democrats. it was a narrative of, it will kill people if we were fielders. when that was in the case.
they are not liberal senators like massachusetts or bernie sanders, who might like that. this backfired on the republicans, trying to force that vote. politics, so fun. i m shocked! there is gambling in the casino! what? nancy pelosi went on to say the collapse of child care is a tribute to the power of the american people to organize, mobilize, and make their voices heard. as ever, democrats extend a hand of friendship to our republican colleagues to join us in forging constructive progress to improve working families health care. they are extending a hand of friendship. is that hell is going to work? chuck schumer has been on the record. the senate is a little more of a genial place. they get along, and schumer has long been on the record there.
proceed was being voted on, many democrats came out and said, we hope john mccain dies, and he should die soon. he deserves that brain cancer. i hope they will apologize, because they are celebrating him as a hero right now and saying, we still stick by what we said. yeah, that is nasty. he has been a trooper through all of this. we have senator ted cruz who spoke after this vote. he said he believes at some point everyone will come together, lawmakers look on her and they will discuss this. , giving their high fives and being excited about what they were able to do there, he believes that senators will go back to their constituents and they will have to face the american people. the seminary they told they were you. so you can have you deserved. you re not going to do.
senators there. and they will call ahead, their offices will comb to the cloakroom and say, senator so and so won t make it, hold before open. there was a key vote some years ago or senator brown of ohio, his mother had died, and he was a key vote, they have the votes to pass a bill, and he came from ohio, and they held the vote open for eight hours in the united states senate just so he could make about. let s talk about this for a minute. math is always an affair on capitol hill. as you mentioned, john mccain came in on tuesday after brain cancer surgery, and he voted yes then on the bill there. not tonight, he was one of the three that voted no. this was a situation that john mccain has been consistent on for years. some years ago, there was a question about a bill, i don t remember what it was, and he said, i might vote no on the bill, but i always vote on the