republican leaders are saying they are ready for the vote, and jim acosta is at the white house and he joins us now, and we have heard from phil that leader mccarthy says they have the votes. what are you hearing? yes, the white house is optimistic about tomorrow, and one official said they are feeling good and another official is describing it a as positive development, but i talked to a key source who has been close to the process all along and said in these words, we are having a vote, but we are not saying that we have the votes, and that is a key republican source close to the source saying no guarantees at that point that it will pass tomorrow, but at the same time they feel like they have crossed a little by of the milestone in getting some of the nervous republicans comfortable with the language when it comes to pre-existing conditions in the bill. and it is something that we have pressed the white house press secretary sean spicer on, and under obamacare, people with
he said that it would have destroyed the fbi, and if people destroyed it the fbi is full. it was a kid they were heroes and still heroes to me, and i worked for them in the white house, and a this is men and women who put their country ahead of their lives and this guy is so ob sesed with the reputation that he decided to involve himself in a election 11 days out and contradicting decades of policy and it had an effect on that election and sorry that it upset the stomach. jason? look, the big news heading into that week is the fact that the obamacare premium hikes coming up and the people who were losing the coverage and this is the catalyst that is going that weekend, and so that friday morning when we got the internal polling numbers back and i remember running down into the deputy campaign manager s numbers, did you see them in new mexico and michigan and we are surging and get the boss, and now president, to the states to campaigning and it is not until later that all of
you bet. martha: joining us us is marc siegel and professor of medicine. good to see you tonight. good to see you, martha. martha: repeal and replace is the big question. we have seen protests already breaking out across the country. people saying their healthcare is going to be taken away from them. you know dr. price and now hhs secretary dr. price. how is he going to do it. well, i think he is going to be a point person for this. as carl cammeron is just saying we don t know the pace this is going to roll out. is he committed to restoring the doctor-patient relationship as front and center for healthcare decisions. he doesn t assume, dr. price, that insurance is always the answer or government is always the answer. i can tell you in the doctor s office a lot of times somebody comes in with insurance, like obamacare and they don t necessarily get the services they need. dr. price is aware of that. he is a practicing orthopedickist for 20 years. he has been talking about thi
of 11 judges. the court is asking both the department of justice and the states of washington and minnesota to submit briefs on whether the case should be reconsidered. the states won the decision so clearly they don t want a new hearing. and earlier the white house said it would not appeal to the ninth circuit or the supreme court. then later said it might appeal to the supreme court. but this breaking news from the ninth circuit may, again, change the white house strategy. we will have breaking news updates throughout the evening. i m trace gallagher. now back to the first 100 days. martha: seven years after anti-obamacare town halls took aim at democratic members, republicans are now getting an ear-full from frustrated constituents. voices concerns from everything over government inaction to executive orders to now ironically the appeal of obamacare is the source of these raucous town halls. this video comes from utah
involved. there is health savings accounts where patients can pay out-of-pocket for more things. where there is tax deductions. he put for the a proposal where you get tax credits and use that to buy insurance with. as well as directly services. martha: that s a comprehensive plan very different than what we got in obamacare. so the big question is how do you give the new program and how do you get it started while protecting people and making sure that you don t have those gaps in between? because that s the biggest concern that people have. i think you add, rather than take away right away. i think, again, in the clip that carl just showed you see some of that. you have medicaid expansion. i don t believe the administration is going to remove medicaid expansion. it may add a private option to it. it may switch it to block grants. same as medicare. they may add a private option to medicare. i always said add a catastrophic option. right now have you a situation where the governmen