people. he tried to bully moderate republicans next year. he tried to bully tea party people who won't pick up sheet on anything. i don't see where he comes back on anything. >> we saw an ultimatum was issued in terms of having to go ahead on friday. do you think that was a strategic error on part of the dealmaker donald trump to force ors through too quickly perhaps he had information that led him to believe that he had a who chance of forcing some may have been hesitating to come to his side? had information like a bat, score that as another defeat. nobody i know had information even close to that. >> why this ultimatum?

hy take such a risk? >> he has broken every rule of rule him at a double and gone this was a miscalculation -- rule and gotten this far. it was a miscalculation. it looks doubly bad. crossing back to washington, what would you say in response to those remarks? would you agree? i don't think donald trump new he had some votes hidden away somewhere to make this work out for him on the house floor. what he did when he issued this ultimatum. membersutting house under some serious pressure to go on to the house floor and vote against the president. that is the image we will not be

getting and that is that her for republicans who are going to vote against him. he was going to try to punish those republicans. bethought his strategy would make them go to the floor and see whether they dare vote against my day campaign promise that got quite a few of those republicans into office in the first place. this brings us to the bigger campaign promise, one of the biggest ones if not the most important one from then candidate donald trump was to repeal and replace 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 he will be speaking to reporters after that. you may hear contradictory messages. >> we are hearing messages the bill is done. others also apparently saying the bill is done. even though we are waiting to hear from paul ryan for confirmation, the vote did not take place simply because there was not enough support. we can conclude this is damaging for donald trump. i will just go back to florida.

us,, if you are still with we have been talking about the political damage this will do to donald trump's presidency. can we go into the technicalities of this reform? give us a sense of what donald trump is trying to do. we know he wants to dismantle it, but can you give us a few more details on why it is meeting so much opposition. >> because he tempered the promise as soon as he became president. he tempered his promise to completely repeal obamacare. there were voters that argued there were elements of obamacare that only 17 percent of americans support this current republican bill. to keep some of the .ey provisions

ultraconservative members of the house simply couldn't stand. >> the opposition is because the reform doesn't go far enough in completely dismantling obamacare, is that correct? >> for those members who make up the freedom caucus, yes. for those members who are more moderate conservatives and face tough reelection bids and tough primaries in 2018, they were hearing a lot from their voters back home who felt that trumpare, including some supporters -- >> just to interrupt you, we are donald trump is set to give a statement from the oval after the defeat of health care.

expecting him to dress the fact that the health care reform has been defeated. we can cross to washington, paul ryan has begun speak. >> we are feeling those growing pains today. we came really close today, but we came up short. i spoke to the president a while ago. i told him the best thing to do is to pull this bill. i will not sugarcoat this, this is a disappointing day for us. doing big things is hard. need time to reflect on how we got to this moment. ultimately this comes down to a choice. 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 is not perfect? that wee willing to do

have still such an incredible opportunity in front of us. that we can so much do to help improve people's lives. i have to tell you, that is why i'm here. that is why every member of this conference is here. companies tocan feel more confident in their lot in life. i'm proud of the build we produced. it would make a dramatic improvement in our health-care system and provide relief for people hurting under obama care. what is troubling is the worst is yet to come with obamacare. of the long inclusive member driven process we have. any member who wanted to engage constructively to improve this build, they could -- improve this bill they could. i also want to thank the president, i want to thank the vice president.

tom price, and mick mulvaney. he did everything he possibly thed to help people see opportunity with this bill. he has been fantastic. we have to do better and we will. this is a setback, no two ways about it. innow every man and woman this conference is now motivated more than ever to step up our game. is committed to seizing this incredible opportunity we have. >> talk about real people, now vote, it's going to be a loss for this foreseeable future. i going to prop it up? >> the question is we prop it itng and try to prop it up, is so fundamentally flawed i

don't know if that is possible. about is theorried coming premium increases that are coming with the spiraling health care system. we just didn't quite get consensus today. will we have is a member driven process. we came very close. that's why thought the wise thing to do was not proceed with a vote, but to pull the bill and see what we can do. i don't think the law or anything close to it is going to be able to survive. going to go back and figure out what the next steps are. explain how the freedom caucus -- other responsible? >> there is a block of no votes that we had. they were a sufficient number of votes that prevented it from passing and they didn't change their votes.

some of the members were voting with us that not enough work. clear to me that the votes were not good be there for their team, and that was sufficient to provide the balance. >> the majority of the senate with the promise of obamacare -- the white house with the promised to appeal obamacare, how do you go home to your is not even saying 100 days and the administration -- >> i wish i had a better answer for you. i really believe obamacare is a law that is collapsing, it is hurting families. it was designed in a fundamentally flawed way. we just didn't quite get t the consnsensus to get there. >> the bottom line is obamacare remains the law of the land.

is that going to change in 2017? to sayn't know what else other than obamacare is the law of the land. we did not have quite the votes to replace this law. we are going to be living with obamacare for the foreseeable future. my worry is obamacare is going to be getting even worse. were doing the democrats a favor. i think we were doing the architects of obamacare a favor by passing this law before it gets even worse. i don't think the architects of obamacare, i'm sure they are going to be pleased right now. once they see how bad this is going to get, based on all the projections, i don't think they are going to like that either. five states, you have one planned left. one choice. only one third of the counties latin america. and the kinds of projections we are being told by the people

providing health insurance, it is going to get even worse. i don't think the architects envisioned this future. we had the kind of consensus we needed to build desk to bring the floor duster bring it to the floor and pass it. >> what about the political capital? this part is -- how much capital is on this? >> i think our members know we did everything we could to get consensus. is how governing works when you are in the majority. we need to get 216 people to agree with each other. not 210, not 215. agree with each other on writing aps of legislation.

we were close. that is how legislating works. plans togg ambitious improve people's lot -- have egg planshave big ambitious to improve people's lives in this country. reforms does make tax more difficult but it does not make it impossible. we will continue with tax reform. spoke with the president, the treasury secretary and economic advisers about tax reform. going to proceed. this clearly makes it more difficult. that just means the obamacare taxes stay with obamacare. members realize there are other parts of our agenda that people

have even more of agreement on on what to achieve. refund more agreement on -- on funding the government. this issue had a big difference whether we not should repeal and replace obamacare, but how we should replace it. are a ten-year opposition party were being against things was the easy thing to do. and now we try to go to a governing party, where we have to get 216 people to agree with each other on how we do things. get there, but we weren't quite there's a day. >> are you going to move ahead with -- and also house the conference doing right now? >> the conference is let down, the conference is disappointed.

we were on the cusp of for filling a promise that we made, of achieving an ambition we had for seven years and we came a little bit short. this bill would have made phase two much better. nevertheless i think there are some things the secretary can do to stabilize things. for instance, risk pools, we think the smarter way to help people with pre-existing conditions get a formal coverage while bringing down the health care cost for everybody else is reinsurer the risk of -- that is now not going to happen and therefore he won't be able .o deploy that policy tool we do lose a lot of the tools we wanted to help improve people's lives. thank you everybody. anchor: paul ryan speaking in

washington. he said this is a disappointing day for us. he had told the president, president trump it would be better to pull the bill. they came close but they did not have the 214 votes required to secure the vote. to our go back washington correspondent. what would you say in reaction, in response to speech? we heard from him as to why this bill was pulled and how. he says he went to donald trump in the white house and told me he didn't have the votes in the best way to go ahead was to not a vote in the first place. we will see if the president of the united states see this exactly the same way. speaking right now

to reporters in the oval office about medal of honor recipients. are expecting him to mention this vote or lack thereof in the coming minutes. what paul ryan says about the reason for this failure, sugarcoating this a little bit by saying these are growing pains. because republicans have been a party and opposition for such a long time, they were not able to all agree on how they were going to repeal and replace obamacare. the only agreed on how they would repeal a replace it when there are campaigning back in the day. the whole house and the senate have been in republican hands for quite a while. there have been plenty of votes to get rid of obamacare. there was a democrat in the white house who is not willing to a sign that bill into law.

that's why they never made it into actual law. easierld have been a lot . they didn't manage to do that. paul ryan to said that on capitol hill, they want to move on to other agenda items. the repeal of obamacare was the it made it toy the house of representatives in the first place. and one of the reasons donald trump was elected. the promise was to do this first and move on to other matters. we will have to wait and see whether this hurts donald trump and republican significantly. and whether this disappoints the voters enough. many of them voted these will into office for that reason alone. we know this repeal, had it been successful in the house and senate, it would have made health insurance more expensive

for quite a few people and would have left a lot of people in the united states without health insurance. they may very well get to keep their health insurance. and they may find out they like obamacare. little bit too early to analyze that 100%. one things fora

03/24/17 03/24/17 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from pacifica, this is democracy now! >> percent employ five years, we have been promising the american people we will repeal and replace this broken law because it is collapsing and failing families. tomorrow we are proceeding. amy: it's a show down on health care on capitol hill today between republicans and republicans. president trump and house speaker paul ryan are on the one side versus fleeing republicans, both moderate and conservative. trump has warned them repeal