caucus get what s important to them, which is fewer regulations and there fore lower premiums for health insurance. you can do those things at the same time, actually, if you make premiums leer more people can afford them. that s the deal that could be struck. i guess the question is whether that deal is the deal that will be struck. the freedom caucus has takence its stand about deregulation, now the question is will leadership and the moderates play ball with them and do something on the subsidy dollars side so all sides can get what they want. there was only 17% of americans who supported that last bill that republicans put out there. do you think there is any real will to tackle healthcare again? i do think there is a will. i mean, most of these represents, all of them in fact ran or repealing and replacing obamaa care and they re hearing from a lot of constituents and outside groups that to give up after debate a bill after 18 days makes no sense. my personal view is that when
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i give him a big reporter: what? i don t give anybody an a. business people are negotiators, by nature bring opposing parties and different people and factions together and that s what he s attempted to do. reporter: why wasn t he able to close the deal? politicians are dividers. reporter: isn t donald trump the master deal maker that was going to bridge the divide? if you re talking to an empty chair, what divider? there s nothing you can there s no bridge across this gulf. i m just surprised how much opposition he s getting from the right as well. i m very disappointed. i m very conservative. reporter: the freedom caucus should get onboard? without a doubt. reporter: how has your life changed in the last 60 days since president trump was elected? there is this quiet restoration of law and order and security. we re addressing illegal
caucus and blew up a very fragile coalition. paul: they were close, 4 to 5 votes. 90% of the caucus was there. i think it might have been a little bit higher. paul: did you dan, you were critical in the column of the freedom caucus and they defined themselves as the only conservatives who are really conservative, and trump went after them. is that a smart strategy for trump to do that? it looks like it creates more division. one of the members of the freedom caucus justin amash tweeted back that it didn t take look for paul: justin amash never voted for anything. i m trying to point out the divisions that actually exist inside the republican caucus. congressman chris collins of new york, head of moderates said it
he undercuts that. can you imagine if he says, i ll let the process play out, i don t think this is right or fair, but the bottom line is i m going to lelt the process pl s play out. here s what i m going to focus on, the economy and what i ran on. pushing a legislative agenda. that would be amazing. what you said is fake news. it s not going to happen. you re right, it s not going to happen. that s not who he is. another problem, this showed up in your piece. he does not instill fear in this town. and he did instill fear in this town before he took the office. it s eroding away. by the way, a president needs a little bit of that if you want to get something done. there s the president and then there s the media. he s totally alienated the media. that s why there s no fear because everybody knows that the next news organization is going to support when he goes after you and insults you. amy wrote about this, the house freedom caucus, conservative republicans know their distr