republican leadership did not have this ready to go. one over problem, republican leadership didn t bring in the freedom caucus early enough in the process. that being said, the freedom caucus, can t say they goat off scot-free because with this power they have is a voting bloc comes responsibility. they had the opportunity here to improve this bill and finally come up with something to repeal and replace obamacare. no one s going home this weekend throwing high fives to people at supermarkets. what happened to the buck stops here for president of the united states? ultimately this is paul ryan s bill. hold on. this is a lesson for the administration. that s the new title on the december that can the buck doesn t stop here, it stops with paul ryan? [ talking over each other ] do you think there should be a new speaker? i don t think the game is over because every single republican that ran for the school board and county coroner promised to repeal and replace. they have a two
say yeah do you think overall for the first 60-some-odd days he s winning? i think he is. a tough atmosphere in washington, d.c. people tend to give the president the benefit of the doubt. no matter who the president is, they still have his approval rating is 37% so it looks like they re not giving him that much of a benefit of the doubt. let me say this about the selling of the bill, brian was talking about. this president knows how to sell stuff. he knows how to go out and go on the stump and make the case. the problem i think this time was that he couldn t make the case because he didn t believe in the case. and educate the public about what was in the bill that is better than what is in obamacare. people didn t know. the democrats made a very good case in opposition, i would argue, and were out there every minute, making that case. and the republicans did not go
dropping health care completely until obamacare, in his words, implodes? reporter: all together. in a closed door conference meeting this afternoon after the decision was made to pull the bill, that was the message, direct message from speaker ryan, trump is done, the president is moving on. there was stunned silence when this was conveyed to the room according to people who were inside of it. they realized this issue they ve been campaigning on in 2010, 2014, 2016 was now off the table and they were moving far. the real question is how does this damage or help them learn going forward when you tackle other big am pentagon officials items like tax reform and infrastructure? the reality is there s no answer to that question. going to talk to the panel. first cnn political analyst maggie haberman who spoke today with the president by phone shortly after the bill was pulled. you said he showed uncharacteristic discipline. how did the conversation go? certainly in that phone call. i
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 wasn t 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 aren t 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 i
significantly raised premiums for all the workers and cut medicaid by $880 billion. poll after poll showed that is exactly what the american people did not want and democrats should take credit for killing a really, really bad piece of legislation. who do you think is responsible for the failure to get the bill passed? you say credit should go to the democrats. anderson, that s just a media game. nobody really cares that it s a failure of trump or a failure of ryan. what the american people are asking is how does it happen that we are the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a right? anderson, i am talking to you tonight 50 miles away from the canadian border. get there in an hour. they manage to vo provid health care for every man, woman, and child in their country at half the cost per person than we do. the cost of prescription drugs in canada significantly lower than it is in the united states.