version of the bill. we re going to get this passed through the senate. i feel so confident. moments ago, the president responded to this news on twitter and we ll get into this as well. quote republicans should repeal failing obamacare now. and work on a new health care plan that will start from a clean slate. dems will join in. in a statement a few minutes ago mitch mcconnell said the senate would vote quote in the coming days to repeal obamacare, quote, with a two-year delay to give lawmakers time to come up with replacement. more on all of this with our correspondents in just a moment. also tonight questions are still being generated about that meeting the president s son donald junior took with the russian attorney and a former soviet counterintelligence sergeant at trump tower last june. the president took to twitter again to defend his son quote, most politicians would have gone
actually going to happen. it s just a completely different calculus. if you are schumer you go out and remind people of that every chance you get. well put and perry here is another example of the fact that these townhall meetings we were seeing were as good and as hard as data. that was something happening. this happened a couple of years back in a different way. but the the old song lyrics there was something happening. there was and the townhalls are supported like like data. they support the data showing this is one of the most unpopular bills in modern history. we saw 12%, 16%. and i should add here a lot of things the republican party has trouble with are donald trump s faults. this is not the case. the republics on the hill wrote the bill had 7 years come up with an agreement on this kind of issue. and you have seen the last few months even in the house there was very little basic agreement about what should be in the obamacare repeal.
yofrg is the recovery of john mccain from what was in effect a brain surgery to remove a blood clot from behind his left eye. the folks at the vox news organization are estimating that that surgeries would run about $ 76,000. that s a rounding, an estimate based on their knowledge of his surgery had he been uninsured. luckily he is not. but for folks in our audience who may be facing that challenge and that kind of amount of money when they hear repeal without the word replace next to it what about the anxiety. i mean these are real world consequences. we know that the republicans plan the bill is wildly unpopular in polling last few weeks. there is no reason to think this is better. one of the senators coming out to vote against held townhalls over the july 4th weekend back in kansas got an earful about people krnd if obamacare went away.
a deal and rose garden signing ceremony which he got. for a measure who measureses everything in victories, in deals what he can message to the public, this is going to be incredibly hard to message. although i do think you saw on twitter tonight just a few hours ago him trying to say that it s a perfectly good idea to repeal obamacare now and replace it later. that said i think a lot of reasonable people would disagree. as we were saying that could spell anxiety for too many people across the country. lest we forgot mr. crowelly let s come to you it s too easy we talk about in the original issue repeal and replace let s look back at how important it s been on the trail. on my first day in office i am going to ask congress to send me a bill to immediately repeal and replace i just said it obamacare. also on my first day i m
that s your job. what did mcconnell say about the now dead health care bill in the senate? what next. this is by any measure a stunning defeat for the republicans. they cell the white house, the both houses of congress. president trump on the campaign trail last year said night after night, day one of my administration we will repeal and replace obamacare. tonight in his statement mitch mcconnell says in so many words, the dream of immediately repealing and replacing is dead. so now they have to move forward. they re saying just repeal. a plan that they was raised months ago and discounted being unreal ifrtic unpopular. the president seems to want this. mitch! connell saying let s move forward. there is no guarantee it s not clear they have enough votes for the motion to proceed. they would need some of the republican senators who said no to sign on to the idea of repealing obamacare without immediate replacement which some believe would plunge the insurance markets into chaos. so