trumpcare bill and to replace the affordable care act or obamacare. in yet another round of town hals and an earful from constituents. this as the white house weighs whether give health care reform another go or move on to something else. hallie jackson joins me now from west palm beach florida. hallie, i have to start with you. we just had the great conversation with mark lotter who says they feel confident they can get health care done, that the vice president is working the phones behind the scenes. what s the path here? reporter: of course you re going to hear that from the administration. they want to get this done. there s nothing else they can say. at this point they can t come out and say we re washing our hands of health care reform. that s not a feasible political or policy option for them. realistically it s an youp hill climb. you played a little bit of the
welcome back to hardball. this is amazing. republicans may be home for spring break, but they certainly don t get to relax. those who have chosen to hold town halls continue to face the consequences of having control of the government. they re being held responsible. trumpcare is one of those hot button issues out there with members of both parties concerned the trump administration wants to kill obamacare. we re talking about constituents of both parties, not members. let s watch. 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, so-called trumpcare bill and to replace the affordable care act or obama care. that s not the way we do things here in colorado. the affordable care act is the law of the land now. please tell me specifically what you re going to do going forward, what you intend to do
much as shane. the consternation is high. the paranoia is extreme. they re all worried about each other, leaking on each other. there are large divisions there. you see how desperate they are for a victory. frankly, they re trying to cram victories into the bills. funding the government shouldn t be a viectory. the white house is very determined to get a few little wins into the bill. the house and senate are like, can we get this done and move on to tax reform? one of the people, i think, who has already paid a price for not getting health care through is steve bannon. there are other issues that have contributed to some of the in fighting. let me play you what roger stone had to say about all of this and get everyone s reaction on the other side. i think steve made an error by not spending any of his commit c political capital to bring other
accords to the washington post, democratic leaders determined to use their leverage in the upcoming fight to force the trump administration to make the payments. the president s handling of the first health care bill has been the only thing so far to have a real impact on his approval rating and not in a good way. now he s going back for more and he s threatening to drag the rest of his party down with him. with congress on recess, town halls are back in full swing. just like last time, health care is at the top of the agenda. i talked to health insurance companies, which, by the way, we only have one in the state that will write these policies. one. if you live in eastern tennessee, you don t have anybody. most states right now have one. 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
plans, are those the same plans? absolutely. absolutely. across state line purchase of health insurance. association health plans, expanded health savings accounts. now all that is there on health insurance side. leland: will there be individual mandate, yes or no? there will not being an individual mandate. leland: okay. but on the replace side, some of the things that we have already done, 21st century cures, is the precision medicine bill already signed into law. president obama signed that in decent. that is a big step towards reforming delivery systems and payments. leland: are the democrats all wet in their argument they don t really know what the republicans are going to put forth? do you feel you have a really grand idea that we just all haven t read? what is it? i m trying to figure out where this is coming from? there are plenty of bills. there are several bills that these ideas have been brought together in total. you have the american health