sort of implementation because, wolf, once they start seeing these health care bills, once they start saying, we can t afford to pay for our medical bills any more, they re not going to be remembering party lines. they re going to try to take care of their own families. which is why if you re reading between the lines here, what they are trying to do with some of these amendments made the implementation, get the bill signed now, have the effects go in much later. you know, jeffrey, i want to read to you and our viewers a tweet that the president posted this morning on the health care legislation. he tweeted this. republican senators are working very hard to get there with no help from the democrats. not easy. perhaps just let obamacare or o care as he called it, crash and burn. and there are plenty of problems with obamacare right now. some serious problems that need to be fixed. i also think it s interesting how the president of the united states can talk about human beings sha
now. and at 9:14 tweeted, the president, republican senators are working very hard to get there with no help from the democrats. not easy. perhaps just let o. care, obamacare, crash and burn? he made the same argument during the house debate. he said time and again he was disappointed no democrat would come onboard. he thought maybe better to just let it go up into flames and people would feel the pain. the problem with that is, that s politically untenable. right? these members who are sitting there and casting votes on this can t just go home to constituents, wolf and say, i m going to syd on my hands and let you experience the pain of this and untenable, too, right, david? politically untenable, and morally untenable just to allow something so big, such an effect on our economy crash and burn? eastern the president himself acknowledged that s not trying to get, pushing this legislation through and wants to see this passed. he thinks he can blame the
week. an all-out efforts with the trump teamworking the phones to get senators on board and they have their work cut out for them. five republican senators have declared opposition publicly to the bill in its current form. that s enough to sink it when it heads to the senate floor for a vote possibly before the fourth of july holiday. peter doocy watching that. how is president trump trying to convince republicans to vote yes on this now? he is using his phone, bill, to call and to tweet. just a little while ago he tried to rally republican lawmakers together against democrats by writing this. republican senators are working very hard to get there with no help from the democrats. not easy. perhaps just let o care crash and burn. over the weekend he was making calls. he is three senators short of being able to pass the healthcare bill. he is just not working on those officially opposed but reaching out to some who haven t made up
because it would cut obamacare s medicaid expansion. now, in a tweet though, the president is saying making it very clear that he believes that the media and critics are being too harsh because frankly, obamacare as-is is a bad system. in a tweet, he said, quote, why is it that the fake news rarely reports o-care is on its last legs and insurance companies are fleeing for their lives? it s dead. earlier today, former trump advisor corey lewandowski was on fox and friends and spoke how the president plants plans on continuing his hands-on approach and continuing things like tax reform, infrastructure, and this health care bill. he s going to get all three done and what that means is he s going to be working the phones, meeting with individuals, i m sure, in the u.s. senate to get a piece of legislation done. now, as for when the president expects this bill to be done, there is no timetable, the white house says, but they
daughter ivanka and her husband jared kushner. the wealthiest of the disclosures were between 240 and 700 million. the next of the former goldman sachs banker and present once economic adviser gary cohen. president trump responding to reporter and insurance companies pulling out of the obamacare exchanges need while pleading putting the following the failing new york times finally gets it. in places where no insurance company offers plans there will be no way for obamacare customers to use subsidies to buy health plans. in other words o care is dead. and then there is this. sam president trump minute when he said on tuesday quote we believe in those really magnificent words made in the usa. thanks to president trump that is vice president mike pence