The speaker warned him off of that. Made very clear that the individuals that would be voting for this bill were many of the individuals that helped republicans secure and maintain the majority, told them it Wasnt The Best idea. That said, there was still a House Freedom caucus meeting that was scheduled with tom price and nick mulvaney. They allowed that to happen after it was clear after the meeting there would be no movement with the conservatives, the House Freedom caucus members. The call was made. President trump called the speaker and told him clearly it was time to pull the bill and that is exactly what happened and the ramifications of that arent just micro, not just this week or this bill. They are health care, period. Obamacare stands not just for now, not just for the next couple months butter for the foreseeable future. A lot of republicans talked about if this goes down maybe kind of go piecemeal, piece by piece, try to do this in smaller chunks than all at once but is th
coverage and the subset, then the president took months to sell it to the country. he went to the house republican cop conference in baltimore where mike pence introduced him. it was fake, i ll say it up front. president obama was not genuine in his outreach to republicans on health care but he at least checked the box. this is to complicated. we were talking about this during the break. if once the president decided to let ryan outsource the bill to ryan to take the insiders game, do health care fist, not your outsider agenda you ran on, they should have been doing work during the transition, going to the southern members districts asking anderson cooper to cast a vote he doesn t want to cast for me in january and you voted for me, back him up. he didn t. i don t think they ll make that mistake for taxes and infrastructure and trade. this administration has to get back to donald trump issues. taxes, trade, immigration, defeating isis. those are the cores, the things
or fully grasping the nuances of your on party but he and the freedom caucus don t have a ton in common in terms of the way you govern. donald trump is from new york city, despite borrowing the language out outside of new york city go ahead. i want to say they have a common enemy that i d say would be inside washington. yeah. but that doesn t say how you should actually the role that government should play in terms of people s lives. so when you are talking about government-funded programs and medicaid, donald trump is a lot less with paul ryan and the freedom caucus frankly than he is with a lot of democrats. there s this debate within the party between eventually the neolibertarians that the freedom caucus represents, small government, free market, that s what they pushed every step. you have to give them credit because they were pushing policy. they had a philosophical idea about this bill.
wasn t there, and i think the republicans cared more about losing this than donald trump did. i think you re right in theory in the sense when i spoke to him his demeanor was pretty calm, as i said very disciplined and on message. but as we also know not taking anything away from that, but we know based on history he has a habit of kind of stewing a little while. we ll see tomorrow. heading into a friday night. saturday, he lives alone, will be alope in the white house residence watching television, possibly right now. how this all plays out i think is going to affect it. i think he was a little gob smacked. i don t know where whether that means he will blow up or get upset. to your point that he cared less than paul ryan did because this wasn t his bill, i agree but it s also important to remember the thing that he discovered more than i think he understood during the campaign, maybe a reflection of not doing homework
difficult thing to do. so obamacare is exploding with no democrats aboard we couldn t quite get there. i think the losers are nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. pause now they own obamacare. they own it, 100% own it. the u.s. just remember, this is not our bill, this is their bill. this would have worked out better if we could have had some democrat support. remember this, we had no democrat support. joining us now is former democratic presidential candidate bernie sanders of vermont. when you hear the president blaming the democrats for his bill s collapse, what s your response? that s exactly what the american people wanted. the american people understood that this is not a health care bill, anderson. this was a $300 billion tax break for the top 2%, massive tax breaks for the drug companies and for the insurance companies, and threw 24 million people off health insurance, defunded plan t parenthood,