unpopular is not because the republicans used the wrong words to describe it it s because what s in it. and that s why the american people do not like it. and this is you guys are wrong. you are diluting yourselves if you think this is not going to be hung around the next of republicans. i m sure democrats will try. but i also think that you, austan, and nancy pelosi suffer from ptsd after passing obamacare. which is a terrible bill and everybody hated it and democrats lost a thousand seats, the only person who managed to win re-election off of obamacare was obama himself and he was a very special, unique candidate who appealed to people. that was a tough moment. but i will remind that you obamacare is now twice as popular as this tax bill. well, you know, messaging is not republicans. kimberly: popularity of president tends to go up after they left office. okay. but i think this is going to be. if you look at that time it. president trump was able to bring together this. i t
holding us back. and what we were able to do in the course of this process is bring a wide range of opinions together around this idea of doing two things. number one, offering real tax relief up and down the spectrum and primarily towards folks in the middle income. and, number two, giving businesses tax relief as marcia just said to create a different business environment. much more forward a leaning. much more investment oriented and much more expansive. that is something that i think most folks are really pleased about. kimberly: where do we go from here com blackburn in terms of the president trying to use this for maybe other legislation going forward as sort of a, you know, a framework for support to get people on board, to put some of the legislation forward that he needs. because there was a struggle, you know, with trying to repeal and replace obamacare. this seems to have gone much more smoothly. it has gone much more smoothly. we fully anticipate that you will see healt
the economy with true regulations. if you take the easing of regulations combined with the tax bill, you might have an economic growth pattern we have not seen since reagan. kimberly: this is a great point. let s talk kayleigh about how important this was for republicans to put this promise through and get a win here because there is challenges about other things they tried to put forward and proffer to congress like, you know, repeal and replace obamacare. some struggles along the way there with obstructionists trying to get in the way of forward progress. but here it seems like this was well thought out. they have been able to get votes that they didn t necessarily think they might be able to get to get people to come on board. that s right. this was a very different story than obamacare repeal and replace. because republicans knew we had to make this happen. when you sit back and you say what binds us together as republicans, one of the bedrock principles is the idea that when y
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pre-existing conditions, they are covered, but under trump care, it is a little more complicated because you can goer for waivers and get protections for the people with pre-existing condition, and this is what sean spicer had to say when we pressed him earlier today. why change the pre-existing conditions look, we are strengthen iing we have done everything to strengthen it and and the governor can say here is my jim, sure. here is the point that is be getting lost. if you obamacare right now, in case after case, you are losing it. so, if you have a pre-existing condition and have a card that says obamacare and nobody will see you and you cant not afford it, you don t have coverage. why not fix that? we are. we are guaranteeing and literally and why not just keep it the president has made it very clear that pre-existing conditions are covered in the bill under every scenario, and i don t know how much clearer we