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 a 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 this morning took to twitter again, to defend his son. quote, most politicians would have gone to a meeting like the one don junior attended, in order to get info on an
going to ask congress to send me a bill to immediately repeal and replace disastrous obamacare. when we win on november 8th and elect a republican congress, we will be be able to immediately repeal and replace obamacare. i will ask congress to convene a special session so we can repeal and replace. and it will be such an honor for me, for you and for everybody in this country. because obamacare has to be replaced. and we will do it and we will do it very, very quickly. so, mr. crowley, as you know when we say this was elemental, when we say this has been the gop rallying cry through two terms of an obama presidency and the election to office of donald trump, that s what with we mean.
absolutely, brian. it wasn t just donald trump. if you remember republicans in congress, you know i think literally dozens of times held votes to repeal obamacare during barack obama s presidency. i mean it wasn t like donald trump came along and dreamed this up. it wasn t like nobody had thought had time to think about how this this. that makes it more astop steno issuing. another interesting thing happened today. donald trump clearly for the moment is not able to do this legislation which is to repeal and replace obamacare. the other thing he promised he would do many times as a candidate was to scratch the iran nuclear deal. well today donald trump recertified to dwres that iran is abiding by the iran nuclear deal. and the deal will stand for now. increasing frustration is the fact that he is not able to do this health care legislation. he is not able to undo the iran
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 going to ask congress to send me a bill to immediately repeal and replace disastrous obamacare. when we win on november 8th
and elect a republican congress, we will be be able to immediately repeal and replace obamacare. i will ask congress to convene a special session so we can repeal and replace. and it will be such an honor for me, for you and for everybody in this country. because obamacare has to be replaced. and we will do it and we will do it very, very quickly. so, mr. crowley, as you know when we say this was elemental, when we say this has been the gop rallying cry through two terms of an obama presidency and the election to office of donald trump, that s what with we mean. absolutely, brian. it wasn t just donald trump. if you remember republicans in congress, you know i think literally dozens of times held