we as republicans have been waiting seven years to do this. the time is here. the time is now. this is the moment. and this is the closest this will ever happen. now is our chance and our opportunity do it. that is speaker paul ryan promising thursday that after more than #60 failed vote, hous republicans will finally repeal and replace president obama s signature legislation, the affordable care act. let s bring in kelly o donnell. what is the white house s role in all of this? reporter: the white house is deeply invested in how this all rolls out for a repeal and replace. the president campaigned on it, so did republican there is congress. so part of what we will begin seeing is the white house engaging publicly, going on the road trying to make their own sales pitch. that begins today with vice
second back in 2009, it took a year for aca to get passed. president obama spent nine months reaching out to republicans and they didn t want anything do with trying to fix health care. it was publicly debated as we saw the summer of 2009 and it took a year. now what republicans are ftryin to do, trying to do it in four week. they dintroduced the man marcpld they want to vote april 7. on its face, we see a bill that will cost more and cover lerest. so democrats what they need to do is fight this tooth and nail and make sure that republicans do not take arm health care from tens of millions of people. joe, you already mentioned we don t know what it will cost or what it will replace. we don t because that is exactly right, because the
they don t know when this budget office score will come back and this is where it gets interesting. if the budget office, the nonpartisan budget office comes back and says this bill will cost money, then the republicans house speaker paul ryan, president trump, they can t avoid the if i wouldly buster in the senate and that s where senator mike lee, senator rand paul, senator ted cruz, that s where their opposition really matters. sources i speak with inside the administration, they tell me that they are negotiating with republicans, that they re in bridge builder mode, they are in negotiation mode. they want to wait and see exactly what will happen. but either way, this has been a rocky rollout, but they have to win it over. mike pence doing all he can do in kentucky today. and it seems there are different sticking points for different republicans. what are the main issues? med cared icaremedicare, how cost, how this is not necessarily a full repeal. republicans that i speak with,
shocking how do you say cost more and cover less? wait until you see the score. watch dogs have said that close to maybe 15 million people could be kicked off. and shockingly the republicans are putting this forward without getting but that is disingenuous, too. i m not defending the bill let me finish my point. they didn t get animalysis from the congressional budget office. they did not get one, so you re rirkts we don t know how much on it will cover, how much it will cost, but there has been some predictions which should be concerning. everybody look, everybody will get kicked off of obamacare because it won t sxikt in texis same form so you won t have the gold, silver, bronze. look, i lost my health care coverage with obamacare but i got a different coverage. now, are you counting the people who on went out and bought more insurance or are you just saying everybody will lose coverage? but here is the thing. donald trump promised that everyone was going to be
repeal and replace bill, but it is anything but. the reason they can t repeal it is because they won t have enough democrat votes in the senate because they would need 60 votes. democrats passed aca, affordable care act, with with reconciliation. now, parts of it can be undone with reconciliation. that s what they re doing. but they cannot have an outright repeal. they should just say so. instead they re trying to pass it off as if it s repeal. but if about there is no repeal, and there isn t, then there is no replace. and what we end up with is just a mar girn alley better aca or obamacare. and we have two democrats now commenting on this. what about this lack of cross i ll caisle consolidation? because the democrats say they have nothing do with this, although republicans are now starting to sound like the democrats because there are certain things that need to be fixed. so what kind ever effeof effect having? i do want to address for a