mr. cheni think it reflects the fact that this is a live fire exercise and the politics become important. it is one thing to vote for a repeal when you know the repeal is not going anywhere. to your point. but now they know if they vote without a replacement, they are on the hook. they could be on the hook regardless. politically, donald trump said we will let it fail and we will not own it. it is not the president's decision to make, it is the voters' decision. republicansm sure want to move ahead with other items on the agenda. as they start to tackle tax reform, how compromised are they because of the failure of health care? mr. chen: i think tax reform can be a slightly separate exercise, in the sense they hoped to do health care reform to give them a lower baseline to meet when they do tax reform. they can move into the process, and by all accounts the white house has been working on it, senate republicans have been working on it, as well as house republicans. they will reveal something i

mr. dickerson: thanks for being with us, happy 4th of july. we turn to our erza client is co founder and editor in chief. lanhee chen is at stanford university and michael graham is the columnist for the boston heard. there's mcconnell trying to get a bargain or deal. president said repeal it and you heard mike lee mention that then he also has this other deal of obamacare plan and free market, free open insurance plans. any of those a route to success >> i have deep concerns about two out of three, i believe senator lee's approach is trying to get a state flexibility, trying to get the sort of federalist notion, i think mcconnell's bill does that. i think the concerns you brought up in the interview are appropriate. what will happen to the health of had those insurance marketplaces and the afford ability is effectively you're punting everyone that's got a preexisting condition and that subsidiz with respect to the idea of repeal and delay i believe this is an awful game of chicken. what is to say they're able to get agreement in the future? they're not going to have budget reconciliation to use again. they're going