joining me now is congressman adrianna espy.of the education and work force committee as well as the foreign affairs committee. thank you for being with us? . >> thank you for inviting me. >> let me ask you. the health care bill, one of the things that has troubled me is with all the focus on the russian investigation and the comey system which is extremely important, that we're seeing the republicans try to move health care and other things in the house almost below radar, and if it wasn't for people like you there fighting it, they would just slip everything through while we weren't looking. >> well, for two occasions, on two occasions ryan was unsuccessful in passing what they call the repeal and replace of obama care. on a third occasion, they were slightly able to pass it with a couple of votes. and now in the senate, the senate said it was dead on arrival. i say push it through. you must consider this goes away with the opportunity for people to have preexisting conditions to access health care. it does away with that, bec