progress we re making it will make the announcement when we make the announcement. sean: were getting close. president trump ran on a promise as that all republicans to repeal and replace obamacare and now it looks like congress is finally going to back him up and make it happen. it s better happen at some point, sooner rather than later would have been better. i ve got to give credit where credit is due, the house freedom caucus deserves a lot of credit for getting it done, they never stop working behind the scenes and friday they canceled the vote. there is much to celebrate tonight finally it is important for republican congressional leaders, police learn from your past mistakes here. this can t happen again. you heard me say on the show, the next time a major piece of legislation is being worked on, get everybody together. members of leadership, the freedom caucus, the tuesday group, the study group, the moderates, senate leaders, the
were having a very, very ouructive conversation with members. the vice president and his whole staff is involved. i feel very good about the progress we re making it will make the announcement when we make the announcement. sean: were getting close. president trump ran on a promise as that all republicans to repeal and replace obamacare and now it looks like congress is finally going to back himit up d make it happen. it s better happen at some point, sooner rather than later would have been better.po i ve got to give credit where credit is due, the house freedom caucus deserves a lot of credit for getting it done, they never stop working behind the scenes and friday they canceled the vote. there is much to celebrate tonight finally it is important for republican congressional leaders, please learn from your past mistakes here. this can t happen again. you heard me say on the show, the next time a major piece of legislation is being worked on, get everybody together. members of leade
michael burgess from texas. we have bob costa with us. let s bring in bob costa. what s going on? i woke up, joe, to text messages from my sources at the white house and their phrase was game day. they re seeing this i guess, as the culmination and the time to come to the field and get some votes. it s been quite a challenge for them since late march when the bill was pulled. i asked them what got you here to the vote? privately they said it was about president trump and the white house stepping back, letting congress work its will. mark meadows, the freedom caucus, the tuesday group, to crack these negotiations and compromises. president trump wasn t involved in tryinto cut the deal. it was congress that had to find its way here. wow! by the way, we have donald trump we ve been celebrating this morning. i know. highest ratings ever.
which is that we want to deregulate the industry. we don t want to offer these sort of essential guarantees that people should be able to pick and choose and hopefully that will drive premiums down. that s the story they re telling, whether that s what it is. but it s harder to tell a coherent story if you say, well, we like all those protections. we just want it changed, which is the position that upton and his ilk are in. yeah, i mean i spoke to the chairman of the tuesday group, charlie dent, last week. i asked him, i said, okay, if you support obamacare s regulations and you support the medicaid expansion, then what it you oppose about obamacare? he said, well, higher premiere yumps. i said, what s your idea for decreasing premiums because the freedom caucus said you disagree with it. let s deregulate and that will reduce premiums. what s your idea? and he said, that s the $64,000 question. and i think the dirty little secret here in this debate is that the centrists don t have a
basically sick people paying more. the house freedom caucus at least there are members who have a sort of coherent ideology, which is that we want to deregulate the industry. we don t want to offer these sort of essential guarantees that people should be able to pick and choose and hopefully that will drive premiums down. that s the story they re telling, whether that s what it is. but it s harder to tell a coherent story if you say, well, we like all those protections. we just want it changed, which is the position that upton and his ilk are in. yeah, i mean i spoke to the chairman of the tuesday group, charlie dent, last week. i asked him, i said, okay, if you support obamacare s regulations and you support the medicaid expansion, then what it you oppose about obamacare? he said, well, higher premiere yumps. i said, what s your idea for decreasing premiums because the freedom caucus said you disagree with it. let s deregulate and that will reduce premiums. what s your idea? and he