telling his supporters to watch her and her lead editorial was to say house speaker paul ryan needs to step down. is that what the president wanted people to hear? i have spent more time in the last week with the president of the united states than i thought i would, than four years. i ve never seen him blame paul ryan. not sure what that was about? why did he want people to watch her show? the people to blame were the people who would not vote yes and they would vote no and when senator lee is here. the folks who voted no are the folks to blame. he is want blaming paul ryan at all? there is no subtle campaign to undermine paul ryan? i ve been in the oval office with the president and with the speaker more in the last couple of days than i ever out. i ve never seen the president for a second try to blame paul ryan for this. all right. are you gog to repl and replace obamacare before the end of this year? my guess is we will move on. we really are. you are not touching h
again, many of them would have supported the bill if it had come to the floor. it was a bizarre combination of who was against this bill and some folks on the freedom caucus. doesn t that tell you if the bill was flawed? if you can t win over conservatives and moderates who can you win? folks are paying attention to the wrong things. they re still paying attention to the special interestsnd being re-elected. what happened here is we got uck with obamacare and the people have been telling people how bad this program is and how harming it is to folks back home are the ones who prevented it from being replaced. that s what s so frustrating. the president is glad it s behind him. white house press secretary sean spicer said the president left everything on the field. i want to put up a bill a chart here. this is how long it takes to get big legislative items done. obamacare from start to finish was 187 legislative days and medicare part d, 166.
this bill as it was written and they both join me now together. gentlemen, welcome. senator leigh, let me start with you, the president is blaming the freedom caucus, club for growth and heritage for, quote, protecting planned parenthood and obamacare. is that a fair read of what happened this week, sir? that is not at all how i see it. this bill didn t pass because it didn t deal with the most fundamental flaw in obamacare. the part of obamacare that has made health care unacceptable and unaffordable. until we get a bill that actually brings down the cost of health care for hardworking americans we re not going to get something that passes. congressman dent, do you pin the blame? some people pin the blame on the moderates, it wasn t just the freedom caucus and the moderates helped tank this, too. what say you? well, i tend to agree with
changes like a 30-foot wall keeping some in and some out. no, i understand that, but you have essentially, you could take the government to court. you could stop this and will you pull out every stop from keeping the wall from construction? i don t like the wall. to the extent it violates law i will enforce that. we re not going to sit around and play patsies and do whatever the hell you want and deport 2 million people. no, we re going fight and we ll fight very hard, but we re not going to bring stupid lawsuits and running to the courthouse every day and i would do the right, human and christian thing from my point of view. you don t treat human beings like that. trump s supposed to be mr. religious fellow, and i thought we had to treat the least of these as we would treat the lord. so i hope he would reconnect with some of his conservative evangelicals and they ll hello him that these are human beings and they re children of god and they should be treated that way.
questions. we really are. i know the man in the white house is capable of governing. without a doubt, no question. if anybody had any doubts about president trump s ability to be the president they should have been really? can t close a deal? he said he was a big negotiator. this is what everybody said he couldn t do and he couldn t work with different groups in the republican party. no, this was the president being the president. what you saw this week were more rotten thing than we did. the president did a saturday morning tweet and he said this, to go watch judge janeane on fox news at 9:00 p.m. so we did. here s what she said. paul ryan needs to step down as speaker of the house. this is not on president trump. no one expected a businessman to understand the nuances, the complicated ins and outs of washington and its legislative process. what message was the president trying to send,