provide relief by people hurting under obamacare. what's probably most troubling is the worst is yet to come with obamacare. i'm also proud of the long, inclusive, member-driven process that we had. any member who wanted to engage constructively, to offer ideas, to improve this bill, they could. and i want to thank so many members who worked to make this better. a lot of members put lard work into this. i want to thans the president. i want to thank the vice president. i want to thank tom price, mick mulvaney and the entire white house team. he president gave his all in this effort he did everything he possibly could to help people see the tint that we have with this bill. he's been fantastic. still, we got to do better and we will. i absolutely believe that. this is a setback, no two ways about it. but it is not the end of the story. i know that every man and woman in this conference is now motivated more than ever to step up our game. to deliver on our promises. i know that everyone is committed to seizing this incredible opportunity that we have and i sure am. >> talk about real p

[booing] speaker of the house paul ryan told reporters that obamacare was the law of the land for the first the able future/ -- forthe first seattle seeable future. this is 10 minutes. that was at the central core of the , trying tocampaign repeal the health law known as obamacare. mr. ryan: you've all heard me say this before. moving from an opposition party to a governing party comes with growing pains. and, well, we're feeling those growing pains today. we came really close today. but we came up short. i spoke to the president just a little while ago, i told him that the best thing i think to do is pull this bill and he agreed with the decision. i will not sugar coat this. this is a disappointing day for us. doing big things is hard. all of us, all of us, myself included, we will need time to reflect on how we got to this moment, what we could have done to do it better. but ultimately, this all kind of comes down to a choice. are all of us willing to give a little to get something done? are we willing to say yes to the good, to the very good, even if it's not the perfect? if we

health care/obamacare replacement bill. yesterday, the first vote postponed. today, it was rescheduled, set to go off around this time. now it is being pulled. so we expect to hear from the house speaker on that any moment now. when he is finished, we then expect to hear in that same room at that same podium from nancy pelosi, the house democratic leader. of course, leading the opposition to this republican effort. by all measures here, the republicans were trying to pass this without a single democratic vote. they were, by our accounts, several dozen short through yesterday into today. there were more defections from republicans as the day progressed. they seemed to become clear to the republicans that the votes were just not there. and if they put this on the floor, they risked a considerable embarrassment. we are going to, while we wait for paul ryan and nancy pelosi after him, we'll check in at the white house. nbc's chris jansing is there. chris, we know the house speaker was there earlier today, we know there is apparently a phone conversation there, trump and ryan, what exactly

best and that is to close the deal. he is all in and we are all in to end this obamacare nightmare. i think what this comes down to is what is that on those banners last night at his rally in kentucky. promises made, promises kept. obamacare was anything but that. people were promised one thing and they were given another. they were promised they would get lower premiums, instead premiums are skyrocketing and people are paid more. they were promised that they could keep their plans and many millions have lost the plan. they were promised more choices and now millions of americans have no health care choice at all. seven years of this failed experiment is enough. this is our chance to build a better, a fair, and a better healthcare system for all americans. all of us, the president, president, the house, and the senate. we made a promise, we made a promise that we would repeal and replace this disastrous law and we are going to keep our word. >> good morning, were coming out of a conference with our president. he made a passionate discussion on why to keep your word. he laid out a very

american people by repealing and replacing obamacare. obamacare has failed. hardship ona american families and on the american health care system and president trump is determined to work with members of congress to keep a promise he made to the american people to repeal obamacare with his mandates and taxes. with the onerous burden that is placed on the american people and to replace it at the same reformth health care that will lower the cost of health care insurance by giving the american people more choices in health care. more freedom. more flexibility. and also by returning resources and flexibility to the states that will allow them to reform medicaid said they can more effectively meet the needs of our most ponderable citizens. the simple fact is obamacare must go and we are now on the first full day of our effort to keep that promise to the american people. i am very grateful to the senate leadership. i will be meeting with the house of representatives this afternoon as we continue to build support. to membersas i said of the senate caucus today. if you like your obamacar

need to think about. so the message we want to share is that change is coming. obamacare is a disaster and needs to be repealed, replaced, something that is effective. the important thing to understand above all else is this, it is not about coverage. it is not about providing coverage without being mindful of creating better health outcomes. that is the point. the point is to create a healthier populace, to create better health outcomes so people have healthier lives. healthier people will ultimately cost the system less. so while saving money isn't the goal, if we focus on the health care and health outcomes and we will ultimately have a more affordable system. you will hear from the vice president speaking about things that he and the president and congress are working towards in terms of creating competition. i will say this. stay tuned. expect there to be healthy dialogue. this is a multistep process. the reconciliation process, very few understand how it works. it is imperative to understand that what makes it through the house right now -- thank you for being here. you

promote their new obamacare replacement plan. party leadership, even the white house now getting involved. but not convinced, a big chunk of the gop. this hour, in about 30 minutes from now the house freedom caucus as long with tea party senators will faulk about why they think this isn't the right way the repeal and replace. later on, the carson controversy. in his first address to his new department, housing and urban development, carson referred to slaves as immigrants. a lot of blowback over his comments. we have a lot to get through. our team is in place. chris jansing, kasie hunt, perry bacon, nice to see him again. let's start off with a hard look at what is in this obamacare replacement plan. before we get started here i want to run through the basics of the new bill. no more individual mandate. coverage for individuals with preexisting conditions is still in. young people can remain on their parents coverage until age 26. the expansion of medicaid that happened under obama, that gets frozen in 2020. and people who let their coverage lapse could see their premiums go up by 30%. fi

. it has been a long time coming. keeps our promise to repeal and replace obamacare. delivers relief to americans fed skyrocketing premiums and fewer choices. it moves us away from the broken status quo toward a better patient centered system. that means lower cost for hard-working families, more choices and competition so you can buy the plan that you need and can afford. it means greater control of your health care. yearss a culmination of long, an inclusive process we have been doing here for years. last june, as part of our better way agenda, we put forward our vision for health care. after the election, we began to work with our counterparts in the senate and with the trumpet administration. i want to thank president trump. i want to think twice president pence, and secretary price for their support and hard work and getting us to this repeal and replace point. i also want to think chairman brady and chairman walden for their leadership. this bill will go through the regular order process in the house. i encourage all americans to read this bill online and read the bill -- at read

obamacare. details are being released as we speak. coming up shortly, i will be joined by the two halves committee chairman who will be leading the efforts to get this bill to the floor. each in their respective committees dealing with one of the two parts of the legislation. it's a bill that, unlike obamacare and it's 2400 pages, is only about 120 pages total. we start with exactly what republicans are proposing. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is alive tonight with the breaking details on capitol hill. >> good evening. the g.o.p. blueprint is being posted this evening. separate components from house ways and means and energy and commerce working in conjunction, and g.o.p. leaders say it's time to deliver. >> americans need relief. they deserve a new direction. that's why we are taking action to repeal and replace obamacare with health care solutions that can actually work for the american people. >> hhs secretary tom price and budget director mick mulvaney are expected to have dinner with president trump to review the proposal with mick mulvaney is a founding member of t

years, since obamacare was signed into law. many of them ran on this issue, to repeal and replace obamacare, and many were of said when one lawmaker -- he described himself as lugubrious. and so the president said vote our move on. they are moving on. >> so he says the aca or obamacare will explode or in implode on its own. he mentioned bipartisan support for another health care bill in the future. any chance of that? molly: that would be in the next year, according to several leadership individuals i have talked to. that would not be a repeal, because democrats are not voting for a repeal of obamacare. it was truly have to be a bipartisan effort to repair obamacare, because there are issues in the law. democrats have admitted it. they want to make fixes, but if it's repeal -- anytime that word comes around, democrats will not vote for it. it could be a bipartisan effort to fix it, not peel it -- not repeal it, much to the chagrin of the caucus members. >> so is there anything congress can do? molly: like speaker ryan's debt, -- said, the stage to aspect of their plan, were secret

sometimes over and over again for show votes saying that they're going to repeal obamacare and obviously knowing at the time that it was not possible because there was a man named obama in the white house who would never sign such a thing. now there isn't, and they're not going to get this done and i should tell you just by way of process of how this finally went down in this unbelievably dramatic few hours at 3:00 we are told by a leadership aide and phil mattingly had this reporting earlier that the president told the house speaker, i'm pulling the bill, that is the best course of action. jake? >> all right, dana bash, stay with me. i want to go right now to cnn's manu raju who is live right outside the conference room where speaker ryan met with house republicans. with we are expecting speaker ryan to come out. meantime, manu raju, what are you hearing from your position? >> reporter: those were the exact words from paul ryan. time to move on. that's what we're hearing member after member who left this meeting t it was a very brief meeting. it was a sign they're done negotiating, it's

continues his offensive on health care. >> action on obamacare is an urgent necessity. >> chris: we will discuss the process for repeal and replace. the president's first report card on jobs and his plan for tax reform. with gary cohn, the white house chief economic advisor. it is first sunday show interview. if then, conservative republicans are pushing back on the party's health care plan. >> the goal is really simple. >> chris: we will talk with ohio congressman jim jordan, founding member of the house freedom caucus, who said he doesn't think speaker lines proposal has the votes to pass. and we will ask our sunday panel about wikileaks exposure of spy secrets. >> to produce this material and lose control of it. >> chris: all right now on "fox news sunday" ." and hello again from fox news in washington. just over halfway through its first 100 days, president trump faces a showdown over a key legislative initiative. the house republican plan to repeal and replace obamacare is encountering stiff opposition from the right wing of the part party. in a few minutes we will talk with one of

thing we can do politically speaking is let obamacare explode and it is exploding right now. it's -- many states have big problems almost all states have big problems. i was in tennessee the other day, and they have lost half of their state in terms of an insurer, they have no insurer. and that's happening too in many other places. i was in kentucky the other day, and similar things are happ happening. so obamacare is exploding with no democrat support. we can't quite get there, we're just a very small number of votes short getting the bill passed. i think the losers are nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, because now they own obamacare, they own it. 100% own it. this is not republican health care, this is not anything but democrat health care and they have obamacare for a little while longer until it ceases to exist, which it will at some point in the near future. and just remember, this is not our bill, this is their bill. now when they all become civilized and get together, and try to work out a great health care bill for the people of this country, we're open to it. >> sir, is it

speaking is let obamacare explode, it is exploding right now. it's -- many states have big problems, almost all states have big problems. i was in tennessee the other day and they've lost half of their state in terms of an insurer. have no insurer. it was mostly because of secretary price, and phase three which i think we would have gotten, premiums would have kwon down, would have been very stable, very strong. but we're very, very close and i think what will happen is obamacare will explode. it's going to be a very bad year. last year you had over 100% increases in various places, arizona, i understand, it's going up very rapidly again. like it did last year. last year was 116%. many places, 50%, 60%, 70%. i guess it averaged, whatever the average was, very, very high. this year should be much worse for obamacare. what would be really good with no democrat support, if the democrats want it to explode if they got together with us and got a real health care bill. i'd be totally open to it. i think that's going to happen. i think the losers are nancy pelosi and chuck schumer because

is coming. obamacare is a disaster and needs to be repealed, replaced, something that is effective. the important thing to understand above all else is this -- it is not about coverage. it is not about providing coverage without being mindful of creating better health outcomes. that is the point. the point is to create a healthier populace. to create better health outcomes so people have healthier lives. interestingly, healthier people will ultimately cost the system less. so while saving money isn't the goal, if we focus on the health outcomes, welth will ultimately have a more affordable system. you will hear from the vice president speaking about things that he and the president and congress are working towards in terms of creating competition. i will say this. stay tuned. expect there to be healthy dialogue. this is a multistep process. the reconciliation process, very few understand how it works. it is imperative to understand that what makes it through the house right now, and there are a .ouple of congressmen here they are in front of me. thank you both for being here. is th

says he's going to let obamacare explode. i'll get reaction from the top senate democratic, schumer. >>> and russian probes. canceling a public hearing. democrats are accusing devin nunes of trying to protect the president even as some key former trump advisers offered to be questioned about their russian ties. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> breaking news this hour. president trump says he's going back and let obamacare explode after his efforts to replace and repeal it were blocked by members of his own republican party. mr. trump says republicans were very close to pass the health care legislation in the house trying to put the best face possible on a huge and stinging political defeat. the house speaker ryan pulled the bill and canceled the scheduled vote at the last minute after failing to win conservative votes despite the campaign led by the president. chalking it up as growing pains for a party that's not used to controlling the congres

we had the first march? i think i remember the topic back then was repealing and replacing obamacare. now we have to finish it. i'm a big football fan. we are at the 5 yard line. the game is not over. we have a score. this is our time to repeal obamacare. but it is not going to happen unless you guys are doing what you are doing today and you are going and telling them in person. so over there is where mitch mcconnell works. when mitch mcconnell was running for re-election his campaign theme was we are going to tear up obamacare root and branch. so i am looking at this crowd right now and i believe we are here to help him keep his campaign promise. so please, folks, i appreciate you coming here. i appreciate you taking the time. i appreciate your hard work. please remember obamacare is not going to go down unless you guys help put it across the finish line. with that, we are going to be bringing up -- andrew, are you introducing? >> that's the job, right? that's what you brought me here for. >> thank you for coming and braving these temperatures. >> i have been doing events with free

the losers are nancy pelosi and chuck schumer because now they own obamacare. they own it, 100% own it. this is not a republican health care. this is not anything but a democratic health care. and they have obamacare for a little while longer until it ceases to exist, which it will at some point in the near future, and just remember, this is not our bill. this is their bill. >> okay. senator, your reaction. >> well, it's a tall tale, another one by president trump. they never reached out to us, they never talked to us, they never said how can we work together to make it better. the failure is completely among the republicans. president trump and the congress. they weren't even trying to get democrats involved. and now it's about time for the president to lead, not to name call, not to blame, but to lead. to simply say people are going to suffer, and someone is to blame, that makes no sense at all. if you're a real president, you care about people suffering and we're ready to work with the president. let him take repeal off the table. let him, speaker ryan, mitch mcconnell, and say n

obamacare. not just do it, but do it on day one. it was not just donald trump who got into office by promising to or the of obamacare affordable care act. republicans have been running on that campaign promise to get rid of obamacare. members of the house of representatives even on the levellevel, on the state that they will try to get rid of obamacare. all of them have failed here tonight because they weren't able to use this massive advantage. voted to repeal and replace obamacare. very first time the house and the senate were in the republican-controlled white house. everything in republicans favor favorite to vote on a campaign promise. update, we areng expected to hear from the speaker of the house of representatives paul ryan. he was supposed to speak eight minutes ago. not surprisingly he is a little bit late having spoken to the related -- having spoke to the leadership. he will give his explanations as to why his vote did not happen in the end. afterwards we will hear from president donald trump as well. he had an event in the eastern the white house. the white house told us

thing we can do politically speaking is let obamacare explode, it is exploding right now. it's -- many states have big problems. almost all states have big problems. i was in tennessee the other day and they've lost half of their state in terms of an insurer. they have no insurer. that is happening to many other places. i was in kentucky the other day, and similar things are happening. so obamacare is exploding. with no democrat support, we could not get there. we were a couple of votes short of getting our bill passed. a lot of people do not realize how good our bill was. they were looking at phase one, but when we at phase two, which was mostly because of secretary price, and phase three, which i think we would have gotten, it would have been a great bill. premiums would have gone down, would have been very stable, very strong. that's ok. but we're very, very close, and i think what will happen is obamacare will explode. it's going to be a very bad year. last year you had over 100% increases in various places. in arizona, i understand, it's going up very rapidly again. like it did la

, everybody wants to compare this to obamacare as if they can keep these guarantees going, as if we are going to have obamacare plans and we are just going to finance ate different way. this is repealing and replacing obamacare so this first part is very, very important. it repeals the entire fiscal pieces to law and replaces it with patient centered system, and the point s a lot of people who you just mentioned i think they would like to see us continue to make americans buy what we say they should buy. we don't -- >> dickerson: the critics come from the conservative side. >> look, when you are a governing party getting consensus among your wide, big tent party, not -- everybody doesn't get what they want, but we are getting much better policy here. let me put it this way. obamacare is collapsing. if we just our hands of the situation, we would see a further collapse of the health insurance markets, so we feel an obligation to step in front of that collapse and replace this with one that works and that has more freedom, some people like it to be done a little bit differently, the point here

obamacare/affordable care act has been truly does dating. -- truly devastating. we have been in a meeting with small business owners talking about how it is actually impacted them. these are folks who employ thousands upon thousands of folks. it has devastated their businesses. it creates confusion, difficulty, costs. it ultimately gets passed through to somebody. the system is collapsing. fewer and fewer insurers are willing to actually be on exchanges. and so this idea that it is somehow working in kentucky. for those of you from the national media, it does not work in kentucky. you will see our former governor yet again try to maintain some ones available by telling you it is working. it is not working. half of our counties only have a good provider. it is not working in kentucky. humana will be leaving our exchange and every other exchange in the country. others will do the same thing. the cost has become prohibitive. people cannot even afford to do dockable if they can afford the premium itself. for those who are getting it for free, but it's free to somebody is expensive for

. he wants a vote tomorrow on the bill to repeal and replace obamacare, and if he doesn't get it, gop is stuck with obamacare. okay? that's what he says. is that what the president really wanted all along? and what are the odds that paul ryan can avoid a humiliating loss on the plan republicans have been promising for seven years? listen to what speaker ryan has been saying. >> prolsing american people we will repeal and replace this broken law because it's collapsing and hurting families. tomorrow we're proceeding. >> good evening to you both. today republicans had self-imposed deadline to pass the gop plan on the anniversary that president obama signed affordable care act, and they failed. take us behind the scenes here, what is happening? >> about as high stakes chicken as you with play. over the course of the day, no movement. short of the votes and didn't seem like any chance to get there. canceled press conferences, the actual scheduled vote and meeting behind the scenes until president trump himself passed word to his top advisers, this has to end. we're not making any more cha

rolls out his budget this week and continue offensive on health care. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> action on obamacare is an urgent necessity. >> we will discuss the prospects for repeal and replace. the president's first report card on jobs and his plan for tax reform. with gary, white house chief economic adviser, first sun show interview. then conservative republicans are pushing back on the party's healthcare plan. the. >> the goal is real simple. get rid of this terrible law and do what we told voters what we were going to do. >> we will talk to jim jordan who doesn't think speaker ryan's proposal has the votes to pass and we will ask our sunday panel about wikileaks exposure of cia spy secrets. >> the cia was so to produce the material. >> all right now on fox news sunday. and hello again from fox news in washington. just over a half way through his first 100 days president trump faces a showdown over a key legislative initiative. the house republican plan to repeal and replace obamacare is encountering stiff opposition from the right wing to have party. in a few minutes, we will talk with one of t

, if that deal does not work, he's got a backup plan. let obamacare fail and blame democrats. right now let's get back to capitol hill and listen in to house minority leader, the democratic leader nancy pelosi, speaking about this. >> -- the cbo score to show what the impact of the bill would be. now, it was interesting, because as i said to some of you yesterday, speaker ryan then as ranking member of the committee on the budget signed a letter to doug elmendorf along with the committee's ranking members of ways and means and education and labor, asking for -- saying we shouldn't proceed until we had a cbo report, which we fully intended to wait for. we had already asked for it. and we had our markup scheduled well into the future of receiving that. so in his letter, the speaker says -- references that the house speaker, that would be me, has indicated legislation would be marked up before the committees of jurisdiction and debated on the house floor beginning on the beginning of august. this is a letter in june. we had already requested the cbo report. but he says, we want to -- b

replace obamacare which has been pulled, at least for the moment. we'll figure out what is going on because house speaker paul ryan is just about to speak at a conference any moment now. of course we will take you live there as soon as it happens. melissa: back to the markets, the dow selling off into the close. concerns that the republicans, plan. let's go, all right. go to peter barnes in d.c. adam shapiro on the floor of the new york stock exchange. no, wait, sorry, we're going to start with adam. what is the feeling like on the floor today. >> there is a bit of recovery. the look the dow will close down 5points. at one point we were off triple digits. not as bad as it might seem. the vix by the way hit a point, highest level since january 3rd. it is up 20% just this week. after the news the bill was pulled, look what happened to some of the health care providers? tenet healthcare corporation was almost 8% on news. hca up 3%. universal health was up almost 3%. daveed he today, up almost 1%. humana, anthem, all down. back to you. melissa: adam, thank you. david: republicans fighti

replacing obamacare, right? that was the stopping it then. now we got to finish it. i am a big football fan. we are like at the 5-yard line. the game is not over. we have got to score and this is our time to repeal obamacare. it is not going to happen unless you guys are doing what you're doing today and you're going and telling them in person. over there is where mitch mcconnell works. [booing] when mitch mcconnell was running for re-election, his campaign theme was we're going to tear up obamacare root and branch. root and branch! i'm looking at this crowd right now and i believe we're here to help him keep his campaign promise. so please, folks, i appreciate you coming here. i appreciate you taking the time. i appreciate your hard work. please remember, obamacare is not going to go down unless you guys help put it across the finish line. so with that, we're going to be bringing up -- andrea, are you going to introduce? that's the job. that's what you brought me here for. thank you very much for coming and braving these temperatures. >> i have been doing events with freedom w

campaign as in the very first day. >> we have to repeal obamacare and it can be replaced and it can be replaced with something much better for everybody. let it be for everybody. but much better and much less expensive. for the people and the government. we can do it. so i have watched the politicians. i've dealt with them all my life. if you can't make a good deal with a politician, then there is something wrong with you. you are not very good. >> without commenting on that assessment, the simple fact is he could not bring home a deal with house republicans nor could paul ryan. no one seemed to like it and it was euthanized today. paul ryan weighed in and the comments are worth playing and before we go to the correspondents and bernie sanders, let's take a look at that. >> we were very close. it was very, very tight margin. we had no democrat support. no votes from the democrats. they were not going to give us a single vote. it's a very difficult thing to do. i have been saying for the last year and a half that the best thing we can do politically speaking is let obamacare explode. it

to repeal and replace obamacare. they call it the american health care act. it has landed on capitol hill though with plenty of jeers from the republican side. republican members, conservative interest groups, they have spent the better part of today airing their grievances with provisions in this legislation. the president himself as we said just minutes ago, he stepped forward, and he embraced this bill and predicted speedy passage. take a listen. >> this will be a plan where you can choose your doctor, this will be a plan where you can choose your plan. >> president says it fulfills all his campaign promises, but with these republican voices speaking out and saying, not so fast. secretary of health and human services, tom price, he stressed today that there was still some wiggle room here, at least it seemed. >> this is the beginning of the process. you know what happens with these things. you start at a starting point, people engage, and they get involved in the process, sometimes to a greater degree, nothing focuses the mind like a bill that's currently on the table and

the charge to repeal obamacare. but do they have the votes within his own party? we will go one-on-one with the speak never an interview you will see only on "face the nation". republicans launch the long promised push to dismantle the affordable care act. but were hammered right out of the date by critics from the right, the left and the center. >> you are a governing party getting a consensus among the wide big tent party. >> we are not getting what we want but we are getting much better policy here. >> dickerson: but it is the impact of the policy that gives americans worried and critics ammunition. >> how many people will lose coverage? >> i can't answer that question. >> dickerson: another unanswered question in washington, what evidence did the president have for his bomb shell charge that president obama had wiretapped trump tower dump the campaign? >> you will remember, the so-called gang of eight. who got this information, have you seen anything to suggest there is wiretaps? >> no. >> dickerson: question will also talk this morning to two of the most vocal critics of the h

have to live with obamacare. was not enough to sway critics of the measure. why couldn't he close the deal? >>> and russia investigation, the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee cancels a public hearing on russian election meddling. angry democrats say he's trying to provide cover for president trump and further eroding trust in the bipartisan investigation. >>> i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> we're following breaking news, extraordinary political drama on capitol hill where the house speaker paul ryan has pulled his health care bill after consulting with president trump. frantic round the clock negotiations and direct pressure from the president failed to win enough support from republican conservatives who say the bill didn't go far enough to repeal obamacare. speaking just a little while ago, ryan said republicans came really close but came up short. he also said, and i'm quoting him now, we will be living with obamacare for the foreseeable future. the speaker says they are now, quote, moving on from

and replace obamacare. >> here's what i think about health care. obamacare is a disaster. we are down. we learned that the fbi is investigating trump campaign operatives for potential ties to russia. here's my belief. it goes wherever it goes. no politicians can stand in the way. we should let the fbi do their job and what happens happens. >> cnn's polo sandoval is covering that for us. a lot of questions today and seemingly handling it well. he's comfortable in that setting. >> reporter: yeah, absolutely. at no point losing control of this as he took questions for about an hour and a half, wrapping up in the last few minutes. that question about, of course, russian involvement in the election was, of course, something that he did talk about and also, one of the ones that prompted one of the largest responses from the audience is one of the last ones, some of the audience members calling into question senator graham's vote on some of president trump's nominee and eventual appointments including secretary of education and secretary of state, several individuals even leaving the room bu

developments on the republican's plan to repeal and replace obamacare. we can confirm and report now that republicans just within the past 30 minutes have decided to pull the bill, meaning that that bill will not go to the house floor for a vote this afternoon as previously expected. now, the vote was expected to come down within the next hour or so. debate had been going on on the house floor all day long. the "washington post" is now reporting that the president himself called a reporter that he has communicated with often and said, t quote, the health c bill is over for now. we don't know if that means the debate is over for good or just postponed. but that bill will not go to a vote as expected. we're standing by expecting to hear from house speaker paul ryan at any moment. he's set to address reporters on capitol hill. all of this comes after republicans spent all day scrambling trying to make that bill happen. today, as time ran out, republicans spent the day scrambling, knowing they were facing an uphill battle for votes. the vice president cancelled a planned trip as some republic

republicans listed with us in this effort to begin the end of obamacare, but as we all learned yesterday, congress was not ready. you saw it. with 100% of house democrats, every single one, and a handful of republicans standing in the way, the president's planned to appeal and replace obamacare, we are back to the onboard. nancy pelosi actually said yesterday was a victory for the american people. west virginia knows better. yesterday was not a victory for the american people. it was a victory for the status quo in washington, d.c., and it was a victory for the disaster of obamacare. but i promise you that victory will not last very long. host: vice president mike pence in west virginia. this is the headline inside the "new york times." speaker paul ryan is left badly bruised by the help defeat -- health defeat. dynamics could shift quickly. several of mr. trump's advisers have been casting blame on mr. ryan, who is close with the presidency. mr. trump ha is also known to grow angry over time when faced with public embarrassment. that from inside the "new york times." this is from "the n

straidrain imposed on you by the very, very failed and failing obamacare law. secretary price and i along with my entire administration and a lot of people in the senate and a lot of people in the house are committed to repealing and replacing this disastrous law with a health care plan that lowers cost, expanse choice and ensure access for everyone. you represent the millions of americans who have seen their obamacare premiums increased by double digit and even triple digits. in arizona the rates are over 116% last year. 116% increase, and the deductibles are so high you don't even get to use it. many americans lost their plans and doctors altogether, and one-third of the counties, think of it, only one-third only have one insurer left. the insurance companies are fleeing. they are gone. so many gone. the house bill to repeal and replace obamacare will provide you and your fellow citizens with more choices, far more choices, at lower cost. americans should pick the plan they want. now they will be able to pick the plan to walk, pick the doctor they want. it will be able to do a lot

legislation as part of the house republicans' efforts to repeal and replace obamacare. after years of broken promises, we are proud to put forward a plan that represents a better way for patients and for american families. and this morning, health and human services secretary tom price sent us a letter on behalf of the trump administration in support of our legislation. that's a first step on the path to fulfilling our promises to the american people. we welcome president trump and secretary price's support. we will continue to work with them to get this bill passed into law. let me be clear. our plan is the first step. under our plan, we are moving forward in a positive direction to rescue the individual insurance market and to give flexibility to our states. we are protecting those patients living with pre-existing conditions under our plan. we are not returning to the days of lifetime or annual limits. and we will continue to allow young adults to remain on their parents' policies until they reach the age of 26 and keep our promise not to pull the rug out from anyone including those on ed

majority leader. mr. mcconnell: mr. president, last year bill clinton called obamacare the craziest thing in the world, but over the weekend former obama health secretary kathleen sebelius said that president clinton had a point. well, of course, obamacare is crazy. premiums are spiking across the country by 25% nationwide and as much as 47% in kentucky for individuals. choices have fallen from coast to coast with about a third of counties nationwide and nearly half in kentucky having only a single insurer to choose from on the exchanges. and health care markets are teetering closer to the edge of collapse. the obamacare status quo is simply not an option. we have an obligation to the american people to repeal and replace obamacare. we have a thre three-throng pros to get there. the first is the legislation. house committees are currently considering. it's a specialized piece of legislation that allows us to repeal obamacare and implement some but not all of the important replacement reforms we want to make. another is an additional replacement reforms that go even further in making

imploding obamacare disaster. >> but attacked on one side by conservatives. >> this is just obamacare with a different label. >> on other side, by republican moderates. >> pulling the rug out from these vulnerable populations is not really the direction we want to go. >> and on all sides by democrats. >> robinhood in reverse. >> this morning i'll talk to hhs secretary tom price who oversees the overhaul, kathleen sebelius, the former hhs secretary who oversaw obamacare implementation, and governor john kasich of ohio who says both parties need to work together. plus the russia connection. democrats threaten to pull out of the investigation if it becomes too partisan. and when we hear statements like this -- >> 17 would be a disaster for obamacare. that's the year it was meant to explode because obama won't be here. >> are we becoming conditioned to dismiss what the president of the united states says? joining me for insight and analysis are -- david brooks, columnist for the new york times. stephanie cutter, former campaign manager for president obama, rick santelli and helene cooper,

want to buy. if we end obamacare mandate that says you must buy this government plan, people aren't going to buy that. once reforms kick in what the cbo telling us, it will lower premiums. it stabilizes the markets. >> as you can imagine, much different reaction from democratic leaders nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. >> the stories that the cbo told yesterday were so clear. under affordable care act, number of people without insurance was cut in half. under the republicans and number of people ininsured are not only grow to where it was before the affordable care act, it will be more people uninsured. >> trumpcare is a wreck. we all knew that before the congressional budget office released its surprisingly scathing score. >> chief congressional correspondent michael major league manuel joins us live. >> the numbers have a lot of folks concerned here are the projections in terms of people will lose healthcare coverage. there are points behind this republican healthcare alternative are selling. they like the idea that would lower premiums overtime by 10%. increasing choices for encour

we should fix the affordable care act or obamacare. there are many many good things in obamacare in the health care bill, in the health care act, that has now been here for many, many years, but there are also some problems with it. you know every major bill that has been passed by this congress and signed into law needed some tweaks, needed some changes, because you pass a law with good intention, but sometimes it doesn't work out exactly as you wanted it to work out, you need to change things and make improvements and see what is working and not working. that is what this congress should do with obamacare. we should say where premiums are going up or certain jurisdictions have only one insurance company and there is no competition. we can figure out ways to tweak it. that's what the american people want us to do. the american people would want us to work together and work in a bipartisan fashion to try to fix what is wrong with obamacare. now there are many wonderful things about obamacare. first of all, everyone knows, it eliminated the pre-existing condition problem. where befor

to keep some of the obamacare taxes they're telling us that they want that you want to keep the obamacare subsidies. [booing] they are telling us you want to keep the individual mandate. >> no. >> it is worse. there telling you instead of paying the government mandates day want you to pay a penalty if you lose your job for insurance they want you to pay a penalty to a $1 billion insurance company [booing] this bill is riddled from top to bottom with problems. basically they admit they will not fix the problem of rising insurance premiums and when they continued to rise the government will continue to pay money to pay the insurance company money. >> no. >> it is not about you by reimbursing a $1 billion insurance industry. there is a way that we completely change the equation for right now if you want to buy insurance as a small business what is the first thing they tell you to do? kiss my boots. take it or leave it. but do you know, how we give you the power? to join a group where you can get your insurance through a large group, the people are in the nra? [applause] maybe 10 mi