there s talk about you guys are close to hammering 0 it a more promising repeal and replace obamacare effort. this has the support we re told of up to 20 of the so called freedom caucus members of which i think for a time you still might be a member, right? no, i was never a member. i have friends on the freedom caucus. quite frankly, i don t know when all is on the freedom caucus. but i have friends on the tuesday group, too. neil: the tuesday group is the moderate bunch. you re not a member of either one? no. i represent pennsylvania s third district. neil: if that is true, the reasons why the markets are racing ahead, because that might be greasing the skids for a tax deal. the treasury secretary was on the hill today essentially saying that things look good. do you share that confidence? i really do. i m optimistic. i understand the latest polls show 71% of americans want to see their taxes reduced.
this. if republicans don t do something about obamacare it has to get done. they were really only 10 to 12 votes short last time around. it was a small number of people as you describe the tuesday group, the sentist group and a group of people in the freedom caucus. it s like squeezing a toothpaste tube. if you make changes on one end and you lose people on the other. they have to find a way to get the two sides together to keep all the toothpaste in the tube and pass this thing. the big issue is focused on the issue of covering people with pre-existing conditions and keeping premiums low. the freedom caucus wanted to get the central health benefits, requirement in obamacare you have to cover certain things and something called a community rating. a complicated way of saying in a particular area everybody gets covered at the same price. you can t take into consideration whether they were pre-existing conditions or not. if you get of those two things without anything else to
italian prime minister. they re about to have some meetings and around 3:30, we re told to expect them excuse me, 3:50 in the east room of the white house. we ll have a joint xroempbs between the two word leadeleade care. explain to us what s happening? i know a couple different congressmen floating proposals. so i would say that i think this is more about the trump administration wanting to be abe to claim an accomplishment in the first 100 days than about real legislative progress at this point. these conversations have been ongoing all the way along. in this case we re talking about one member of the tuesday group, the moderate group of republicans in the house, talking to congressman mark meadows.
they are knee-deep in this, we ll see. sean: my criticism as they didn t share the bill with leadership they didn t share the bill with anybody. they didn t build consensus, you ve got moderates can leave got the study group, you ve got the tuesday group, the freedom caucus. i don t think they can do this in the future they ve got to build consensus behind closed doors, no intramural fighting on to cable television. it s because there s no doubt about it have i worried that they are going to face a similar battle when it comes to the tax reform package. the truth is there a lot of things that people are disagreeing on. order adjustment tax, my opinion? not going to have it, no border adjustment tax and the tax reform plan. number two, deductions, i got an email from one of my horses on the still, i cannot support limiting the property a deduction. i cannot support limiting the state income tax deduction, these are some of the things they re going back and forth about they ve got to g
didn t share the bill withth leadership they didn t share the bill with anybody. they didn t build consensus, a you ve got moderates can leave got the study group, you ve got the tuesday group, the freedom caucus. i don t think they can do this in the future they ve got to build consensus behind closed doors, no intramural fighting on to cable television. it s because there s no doubt about it have i worried that they are going to face a similar battle when it comes to the tax reform package. the truth is there a lot ofo things that people are disagreeing on. order adjustment tax, my opinion? not going to have it, no border adjustment tax and the tax reform plan.n number two, deductions, i got an email from one of sources on the hill, i cannot support limiting the property a deduction. i cannot support limiting the state income tax deduction,he these are some of the things they re going back and forth about they ve got to get on the same page. sean: there was a story yesterday that s