had a special election and they kept going, and i guess the question, and you saw i think it's phil klein in the washington examiner that said this is the biggest broken promise that anyone's made in american political history. >> we had 120 members of congress through the white house in the last couple of days. i myself, at one time on wednesday afternoon, we had 80 members of congress on the property at one time. mike pence was meeting with the group, and the president was meeting with another group, no stone left unturned. >> you're giving up after 17 legislative days and you're live giving up after 66 days. he wants to move on. clearly, you're not going to touch health care for what? the next 12 months. >> winter breaks? >> the winter break? >> no, when it breaks. that's what folks are starting to talk about and frustrating as we tried to help folks back home is the end result is that people back home will be hurt. >> the democrats will be blamed for it because it's not trumpcare in this country, it is not ryancare. >> and you have no responsible that the law of the land, that paul ry

had a special election and they kept going, and i guess the question, and you saw i think it's phil klein in the washington examiner that said this is the biggest broken promise that anyone's made in american political history. >> we had 120 members of congress through the white house in the last couple of days. i myself, at one time on wednesday afternoon, we had 80 members of congress on the property at one time. mike pence was meeting with the group, and the president was meeting with another group, no stone left unturned. >> you're giving up after 17 legislative days and you're live giving up after 66 days. he wants to move on. clearly, you're not going to touch health care for what? the next 12 months. >> winter breaks? >> the winter that's what folks are starting to talk about and frustrating as we tried to help folks back home is the end result is that people back home will be hurt. >> the democrats will be blamed for it because it's not trumpcare in this country, it is not ryancare. >> and you have no responsible that the law of the land, that paul ryan said would be the law of th

in the washington examiner phil klein writes the headline to his piece, gop cave on obamacare repeal is the biggest broken promise in political history. what is your reaction to that judgment? >> well, john, first to say the president is right that the democrats gave us obamacare and the failure of the bill this week doesn't solve the problems of obamacare, it is continuing to get worse and our healthcare system is groaning under the weight of obamacare so we have to revisit it and now have the time to do it in a more deliberate and careful fashion but ultimately i don't think you can lay the defeat of this bill last week on any single faction in the house of representatives some conservatives opposed it, some moderates opposed it, even a chairman men of powerful committees opposed it, the problem is the bill and process, healthcare is a very complicated issue to release a bill written in secret and expect to pass it in 18 days, i just don't think is fees gloobl so you said written in secret, well senate on paul ryan then, he controls that process. so are you saying basically that th

repeal is the biggest broken promise in political history, and it was at the top of, i believe, phil klein'ss. is he right? >> no. we had a great week with neil gorsuch and he'll weigh the balance of the supreme court and president trump had as a huge win to put on the table. it was a big loss, and i agree with the autopsy that director mulvaney put out, it isn't on paul ryan and it is on area 51 of the freedom caucus that believes in legislative flying saucers that ignore the senate and senate rules and reconciliation rules and they own the loss. nobody else. >> tom? >> the fact of the matter is the entire republican side of the house for seven years has been screaming about repealing obamacare. so they come up with a plan that they do in the middle of the night and they shove it in front of the house and they say take it or leave it. the president buys into that with a creative circular firing squad and the command was ready, fire, aim and we're all involved in politics, but out in america today people with serious or even moderate health problems are wondering, where do i go from here? it