i m sorry to say i was shocked that you declared your intention to vote for the american health care reform act, so-called trumpcare bill. what will you do to revise, strengthen and bolster obamacare? [cheers and applause ] [ inaudible ]. joining us now, jonathan capehart, opinion writer for the washington post and msnbc contributor. also joining us, eli stokols. they have barely figured out that you re not supposed to admit defeat. we thought donald trump knew that all along but on defeat day, he did that thing that presidents never do. he just publicly quit on health care. now he s trying to pretend he s back. well, right. and he was trying to pretend he
raise your expectations and ask your gastroenterologist if humira may be right for you. with humira, control is possible. if you believe that donald trump and the republicans are really going to try again to repeal and replace obamacare, then you have to believe that they want more of this. i do not believe that health care is a basic right. [ booing ]. i m sorry to say i was shocked that you declared your intention to vote for the american health care reform act, so-called trumpcare bill. what will you do to revise, strengthen and bolster obamacare? [cheers and applause ] [ inaudible ].
away insurance from several million people unless you agree to work with me on taking insurance away from even more people. it just doesn t i m honestly baffled why he thinks this is going to work. and do you think that the fact that it s democrats that he s threatening and not his own party is sort of a tacit admission that he can t get a bill through his own party, and so he s essentially admitting that he needs nancy pelosi and chuck schumer to put together the whip count for him? yeah. i mean there s no question at this point. there s a lot of we keep hearing republicans were this close to a repeal bill. they have some really fundamental disagreements within the republican party about what to do. if you try to imagine sort of a way forward on health care to make some changes in the law, it s pretty obvious that the governing majority here is some combination of republicans and democrats. and senator schatz, as he said, democrats would be more than happy to work on a set of
i m a registered republican in your house district. i m sorry to say i was shocked that you declared your intention to vote for the american health care reform act, the so-called trumcare bill and to replace the affordable care act or obama care. that s not the way we do things here in colorado. it s sad to see these premium increases that are going up. we re living rite now under obamacare. it s the law of the land. it s the law of the land, and you can thank obamacare you can thank obamacare for these huge [ audience shouting ] that s why we need to repeal and replace obamacare. sit down with the democrats and fix the affordable
you know, chuck schumer is going to be on the phone with me saying, please, president trump, let s make a deal. that makes no sense because the alternative that trump is offering is basically to take insurance away from even more people. so, you know, he s basically saying, look, if you don t agree to take i m going to take away insurance from several million people unless you agree to work with me on taking insurance away from even more people. it just doesn t i m honestly baffled why he thinks this is going to work. and do you think that the fact that it s democrats that he s threatening and not his own party is sort of a tacit admission that he can t get a bill through his own party, and so he s essentially admitting that he needs nancy pelosi and chuck schumer to put together the whip count for him? yeah. i mean there s no question at this point. there s a lot of we keep hearing republicans were this close to a repeal bill. they have some really fundamental disagreements