have no good options right now. they can t stop this bill necessarily because they don t have enough votes to prevent it from passing. what would you tell them to do if you had one piece of advice for the caucus? well, i would certainly tell them to fight this. this is bad bill. you know the definition of a bad bill is when you have moderates and then you have conservatives on the republican side and they can t agree on a bill because you can t get to the center because you ve got a constituency out there that you made promises to. one, to repeal, but you have made promises not to cut medicaid. you made promises to lower costs and made promises to cover everyone and it s untenable in the republican party. that s why this is a challenge, but the democrats they say, listen, don t repeal obamacare. we know it s not perfect. let s repair it if you will. we ll work with you on repairing it. but i have to tell you, the republicans and the senate and the house are just hell bent on repealin
mind. i don t know what the 13 white men when you have five republican women who are excluded from that these 13 men are supposed to sit down you re speaking of the working group. it s all male. it s all male. and women s health is a big part of this. and women are a majority of the population. and their health interests deserve to be contemplated in any reform. any position is my position is and i believe this is the democratic position, don t repeal obamacare. take those sections like the individual market, which has some problems with it and deal with it and fix those sections. and it can be done. i m really very worried that in the rush to judgment we create a major health care problem for people. and we lose a lot of jobs in so doing and we create a whole atmosphere of unpredictability. i want to ask you about the
persuaded that they should vote for something or what has to come out of the bill for you yeah, first i don t know what the leader mcconnell has in mind. i don t know what the 13 white men when you have five republican women who are excluded from that these 13 men are supposed to sit down you re speaking of the working group. it s all male. it s all male. and women s health is a big part of this. and women are a majority of the population. and their health interests deserve to be contemplated in any reform. any position is my position is and i believe this is the democratic position, don t repeal obamacare. take those sections like the individual market, which has some problems with it and deal with it and fix those sections. and it can be done. i m really very worried that in the rush to judgment we create a major health care problem for
what s your reaction? well, i m very concerned. i had a town hall meeting on friday night. we had an overflow crowd of 300 people and thousands of people apparently were watching on facebook live. the overwhelming sentiment from this group of people, including independents and others was don t repeal obamacare. but when you say and others, others, were there republicans there or yeah, yes, yes. the criticirom the republics is that the democrats are organizing bus loads of people, bringing them particularly to the republican town hall meetings. these are constituents. i m hearing from people all across the spectrum, mend it but doesn t end it. you can tweak and fix what needs to be fixed is a tweak enough?
[ cheers and applause ] i m an angry constituent. you work for us! [ cheers and applause ] [ crowd chanting aca ] i m on obamacare. if it wasn t for obamacare we wouldn t be able to afford insurance. don t repeal obamacare. improve it. [ cheers and applause ] as this week of incredible mobilization at town halls across the nation, it seems as though repealing the aca will be harder. republican congressman mo brooks had this to said in a radio interview yesterday. i ll tell you, toni, there are a, in my opinion, a significant number of congressmen who are being