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on our borders. [applause] thank you. [applause] what the president said last night. we will show the whole thing tonight. the president's recent tweets about media has also gotten attention. we heard from several of shall. we begin with tom price.

license credible challenges around the world. health care is important. the program, a program with incredible history of meet the press, and that is what you want to talk about? why talk about the challenges -- >> i'm asking you why the president of the united states, with all due respect --you are blaming me for what the president of the united states has sent his entire -- spent his entire week focused on? >> listen to, with all due respect, the american people are concerned about a health care system providing choices diet where their insurance companies vacating markets. that's what i want to concentrate on, to fix. that's what i am the president working on >> why hasn't he is devoted to this as you are? >> think that he is! absolutely.

he can do more than one thing at a time. us challenge is put before is to make sure that we not only address the issue of health care legislation, but it just united states role in the world as it relates to pandemic influenza, as it relates to research development, to make certain we are on the cutting and the incredible innovation available to decrease human suffering. not just in the u.s., but around the world. that's a challenge. >> our focus has to be in the kitchen table family, paying 20-30-$40,000 premiums, wondering how they will make ends meet. their child might be addicted to opioids. we in washington, we in the country, cannot be focused on tweet. we have to focus on answering problem three to get so frustrated when we get focused on tweeps. we need to talk -- think about

this families. >> are you frustrated with the president? wants president, he health care to be better. >> but you are frustrated with the focus on a tweet >>, the president is tweeting. he doesn't make my life. i'm conservative, i wake up and read about the lsu tigers, not the president's tweets. i think we need to have more of a focus on the family. >> leadership is most important thing. fighter for 20 years, this has been trained with leadership. in the navy you learn country other people the way you want to be treated. to try to surround themselves

with the best people they can find, and i give them credit. i was trained as a leader -- this man is none of those things. . shake my head it's got to hurt for him to recruit people to work for him. john barrasso -- a senator -- we're just not getting names. people don't want to work with him. >> if we can bring free market forces to bear we can bring down costs for middle-class americans. politically, we can't get that done. got to get back to what i have been suggesting for the past six months, which is to push -- and embark on a step-by-step process to decide what comes next. this is consistent with what basically every republican who has campaigned for the past seven years has wanted to do.

this is what we ought to be doing now. >> if republicans can't agree on the moment, why would they be able to agree in the future? adopted him a pass a measure repealing obamacare, put it delayed implementation measure in there, with the understanding that at that point after passing the repeal measure, it would undertake a step-by-step process of deciding what comes back, i think it's easier. when you look to many things into one piece of legislation you do mix success. i think that's what's happening today. i think of for in several centers have mentioned. it's worth considering -- what i thought would be better, a more likely to succeed legislative strategy over the last six months. a leader mcconnell is of this hell.

it's in the next week, he can get the combined repeal and replace, getting to replace. if he can do that i would like to support that read if you can't, every republican senator except one, susan collins at is the only republican senator who hasn't already repeatedly explained that therefore repeal and replace and voted for it. in december of 2015, every except susannator collins, everybody voted for a repeal plan. president obama the toad banks. -- vetoed it. full repeal, there would be time, but we should get to work on replace. right now we are trying to get 50 of 52 for the vice president combined repeal and replace plan. i look to say, let's do the then get 60 out of 100 senators, bring everyone into the room, do this full-time. please cancel the august state

work and do it in full public view and have hearings and to work on something that works better than obamacare. the american people deserve. >> the ideal to repeal obamacare and replace it at a later date. in the last 16 or 18 months, premiums have only gotten higher area in nevada, 14 -- i have no insurer next year. crisis.rue >> that people saying no way i will sign this.

-- to way we look at it replace in part is too difficult for republicans to come together. let's go for the first steps of repeal. there's another member, top -- todd young from indiana. recorde 50 members on having voted for that. that's an option. at that point if you repeal this, he could come back and replace something that could be more bipartisan. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies, and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. ♪ >> tonight on q and a -- >> in 1962 -- press conference. 10 years later we were in a 49 state landslide. all came apart.

commentator matthew kim -- served as a speechwriter and senior advisor to president nixon. >> i didn't know at the time, but next and had entertained this idea. someone said that would be

obstruction of justice. i didn't recommend gardening -- getting subpoena tips. executive privilege existed, everybody. if they got right of this -- and just said in effect, i think he would have moved right through it. president next and said in his memoirs, if you have burned the tapes he would have survived. i think that's right. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span's qa on day. next, nasa administrator decides on the space agency's 2018 butter must. he also talks about future projects including in mars rover mission entities -- exploration. this hearing is an hour.