WEBVTT - ObamaCare Is Dead - 5.4 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.000 Let not your heart be troubled. You are listening to 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:06.240 the Sean Hannity Radio Show podcast. They can't make it 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:08.200 to your mom's on Mother's Day, Well, you can still 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:11.039 deliver a smile with one eight hundred flowers dot com 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:14.200 right now, twenty four multi color roses, twenty four bucks 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:16.520 a dollar a rose. Just go to one eight hundred 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:19.280 flowers dot com, click on the radio icon and put 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:21.600 in my last name, Hannity. All right, glad, you want 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:23.800 us right down a coal free telephone number. You want 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:28.160 to be a part of this extravaganza, It's eight hundred 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:30.080 nine four one, Shawn, if you want to be a 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:33.160 part of the program. This is a huge day, and 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:35.279 it's not the perfect bill. I'm not gonna sit here 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:37.120 and tell you, oh, this is exactly the way I 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:40.080 would have done. It wouldn't have happened. Sam. Part of 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:43.080 of the Republican Party in the reality of the caucus 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:48.440 is just very very simple, and that is that there 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:51.680 are too many moderate Republicans that have no desire to 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:55.840 really take on repealing and replacement. But that that's fine 0:00:57.040 --> 0:01:01.480 and so, but what there's a number of things in 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:06.200 play here that we've got to understand that we have 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:09.920 been lied to for so long and that we have 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:15.080 been this has become such an unmitigated disaster and so 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:19.399 bad for so many millions of Americans, and every promise 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:23.520 that was made they failed you on that it is 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:29.000 imperative that we understand what this turn now provides in 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:32.760 terms of an opportunity for the American people, and in 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:35.000 that case, it's a win. You know, just to talk 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:37.240 about the spontaneity of radio I just as I was 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:39.520 coming on the air, I got a an email from 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:42.480 my friend Jeff Lord, who who wrote the best selling 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:46.399 book about Donald Trump, The Case for Trump, and he 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:51.560 actually went back and looked at Donald Trump's book Never 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:55.280 Give Up, How I turned my biggest challenges into success, 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:59.000 and how the book was written by Trump, and you know, 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:01.520 the same guy that wrote the other bestseller, The Art 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:05.040 of the Deal. And now he has finally passed healthcare. 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:09.440 And we've learned a lot about the Republican Party, and 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:14.400 we've learned a lot about the people that absolutely within 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:18.359 the Republican ranks that are extraordinarily difficult to to deal with. 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:20.800 And then we learned a lot about the character of 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:24.720 people like Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows and Louis Garmer 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:28.440 and all of these people that were willing to work 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:32.840 day and night, night and day to find that ability 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:37.480 to thread that needle, to literally find that secret sauce, 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:41.120 to find the best that we can get and begin 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:45.080 the process of saving what is now a precipitous, rapid 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:49.280 death spiral, which is known as Obamacare. And what Jeff 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:51.480 I think points out which is so interesting to me, 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:56.200 is with all the attention during the campaign about the 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:59.280 art of the deal book, that he rightly points out 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:03.320 that that in fact Trump's book never gave up, gives 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:05.960 a lot of insight into the type of guy he is, 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:09.760 and of course which kind of leads us to where 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:12.639 we are today. And you know, the book is forty 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.640 one chapters. You know, the number of chapters ending with 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:19.519 a closing thought like from Coach Trump. You know, failure 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:22.760 is not permanent wholeness in the art of the comeback. 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:25.840 You know, the Apprentice was supposed to be a big mistake. 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:28.440 At the best advice you can then trust your gut, 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:32.720 you know, is this a blipper catastrophe? Be prepared for 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:35.760 things that happen outside your game plan. When the other 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:39.160 side expects a duel, offer a partnership. That's right out 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:42.040 of the art of the deal. And he talked about 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:45.480 Trump International Golf Links in Scotland, just like you know 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:49.000 the woman Rink in New York. Separate yourself from the whiney, 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:52.480 complaining crowd. You can create your own luck. Be passionate. 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:55.200 It's the only way to move mountains building. You know. 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:59.520 Another golf club story. Don't let don't let fear stop you. 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:02.120 Somebody told me once there's a book. I never read it, 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:04.160 but I get everything out of the title, you know, 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:07.080 and it's a really simple one, and that is feel 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:10.400 the fear and do it anyway. I was not exactly 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:12.400 comfortable my first day on the radio and my first 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:14.480 day given a speech, or my first day on TV. 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:16.960 But if you don't push through that fear, and some 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:19.159 people don't, some people will get paralyzed by it and 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:22.760 it stops them and they never get the advice from 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:26.200 that that older person with prospectus, And don't worry. That 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:28.720 fear doesn't last forever. You know, once you push through 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:30.920 it a few times, you'll be fine. I can't tell 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:32.760 you how many people in my life I have given 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:36.000 that advice to. How many people scared to death to 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:39.200 ever try being a guest on my television show, and 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:43.039 that I've walked through Linda literally, you know, we will 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:45.640 walk through callers on this radio show. I've heard her 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:47.760 do it. That's all right, now, don't be nervous, take 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:50.080 a deep breath, and just focus on what you want 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.919 to say, not her telling them what to say. You know, 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:55.320 one time I was on TV. I don't know if 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:57.240 you remember the Terry Shivo case, and there was a 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:00.599 very kind, wonderful, nice woman that had taking care of 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:03.720 Terry Shivo and the thought that there was some legitimacy 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:07.599 to the argument that Terry Shivo had some level of 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:09.800 awareness and wanted to tell her story. And she'd never 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:13.560 been on TV before, and she's she's pretty, she's physically nervous. 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:17.280 It was. It was transparent, and I'm like, just look 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:18.719 me in the eye, you know, And I kind of 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:21.080 grabbed her hand and squeezed it, not a bad way, 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:22.400 not in a mean way, but in a way to 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:25.599 grab her attention and kind of shocked her out of 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:28.279 her head. Because when you're in your head, remember, thoughts 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:32.159 create feelings, Feelings create more thoughts. Mind begins to spend 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:34.719 then though, those thoughts create more and more feelings, more 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:36.720 and more feelings, more and more thoughts when you start 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:39.600 and the next thing you know, you're shaking, and emotionally 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:42.159 and physically. You know it can impact your whole life. 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:44.920 So that's a very good advice. You need to look 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:47.680 down from the high dive and see a pool and 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:49.919 just say, I have no idea how bad this is 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:51.760 gonna be, and just jumps once in a while in 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:54.039 your life. And a lot of people never take that jump. 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:57.000 And you gotta jump, you gotta dive, you gotta take risk, 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:00.200 and and sometimes if you don't do it, you us 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:03.760 you're just impeding any potential human growth in your life. 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:06.760 It's really important that you take gross anyway, don't give up, 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:09.200 be patient. You know you may have to wait twenty 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:12.640 years for a deal to pay off, and where others 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:15.400 fail and and all these things. So you know what 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:20.560 The story here is this that we've learned that there 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:23.080 were some Republicans that I don't like in this process. 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:27.960 We've learned that there were sixties show votes by Republicans 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:32.799 that they didn't mean it when they talked about repealing 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:37.080 and replacing Obamacare. Just the fact now with that said, 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:39.320 we ran into that obstacle. The friday that the vote 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:41.159 was scheduled, it was clear they didn't have the votes. 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.479 Then we learned that Republicans weren't prepared to manage in 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:47.320 the House yet, and they didn't build a consensus bill. 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:49.320 And this was a top down leadership bill that the 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:52.920 rank and file members hadn't seen. No consensus was built, 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:57.360 the varying factions within the Republican Party weren't consulted. So 0:06:57.400 --> 0:06:59.359 I remember talking and I said this, I told you 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:01.200 other story. Yeah, today that I got on the phone 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:03.719 with the Freedom Caucus members who they're the people, frankly 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:06.640 in Congress that I admire respect the most, that are 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:10.080 the most conservative, most willing to fight hard, the most 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:13.480 willing to stand on their principles, and without which this 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:17.000 bill never would have passed. They'll never get credit for 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:20.280 what they did behind the scenes. Here the mark meadows 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:23.640 the Jordan's, the brats, the go Merts, the people that 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:27.080 worked night and day since the Friday that bill was 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:31.960 pill pulled with the Study Group, the Tuesday Group, the moderates, 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:35.960 and even members of the Senate that worked day and 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:38.080 night with them. By the way, the President is about 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:41.200 to speak. So for stations along the Sean Hannity Show 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:45.400 affiliates UH around the country, we will be taking that 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:48.440 when it happens, and we're being somewhat flexible in our 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:51.560 first break here today to get the president's first comments 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:56.760 after this, this healthcare bill of Obama's for the replacement 0:07:56.800 --> 0:08:00.440 bill was put in place today. So then what realized, 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:03.600 all right, we've got challenges, we've got a diverse caucus, 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:06.520 we've got a hundred people we didn't know, didn't mean it. 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:10.840 We know all of this, all right, So but they 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:15.240 never stopped working. I can't tell you how many phone calls, 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:18.440 how many hours I spent, and and I was just 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.800 a small piece of just trying to encourage and offer, 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:25.680 you know, bounce ideas off of to get the bill 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:29.320 to a point where it's going to meet the main goals. 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:33.320 And the main conversation I had the Saturday after this 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:36.079 was pulled with the chairman of the Freedom Caucus, Mark Meadows, 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:38.640 and he'll back me up on this, was all right, Mark, 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:42.200 what is it that you need? Remember he was getting blamed, 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:45.000 his caucus was getting play. Oh, the Freedom Caucus. Even 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:46.640 the White House thought it was the Freedom Caucus. It 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:49.480 wasn't the Freedom Caucus. It was poorly managed by the 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:52.640 House leadership. Fact end of sentence, it was it was 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:56.040 not the Freedom Caucus. What do we need? What are 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:58.640 the goals here? And he said, well, we've got a 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:02.080 kind of lower A memiums. We've got to bring in 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:07.080 free market competition. We've got to offer Americans lower premiums, 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:12.320 better care, more options, healthcare savings accounts emerging out of this, 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:15.400 and healthcare cooperatives. Now we'll talk to Dr Umber. We'll 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:16.920 get his take on this at the top of the 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:19.520 next hour. And this is the guy that has created 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:22.120 a model that I think can be duplicated around the world, 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:24.960 and now there will be an opportunity to get there 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:28.439 which didn't exist before. By the way, I think, here 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:33.839 comes the president. Oh, there's Paul Ryan, there's Kevin McCarthy. Wow. 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:37.520 I don't see Mark Meadows, do you, Linda, Oh, he's 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:39.800 there already, Okay, where is he in the last row? 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:42.079 Freedom Caucus is already in the front row. Right now 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:46.400 you're seeing the majority of minority whip row. Wow. I'm 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:48.760 very impressed. That's where they should be. That's where they 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:51.120 should be. So maybe they are getting the credit that 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:54.640 they fully and truly deserve. I still don't see meadows. 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:57.120 He's a pretty tall guy. Where over on the left, 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:59.520 he's the left of the screen or the left of 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:01.600 where there as it will be. He's to the right 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:03.760 of the President, the left of your screen. So he's 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:06.559 to the right of McCarthy and Secretary Price. Yes, sir, 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:09.679 he's right behind Ryan. He's right behind Ryan. All right, 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:13.840 Oh there he is. Okay, very nice. We should reverse that. 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:16.120 But what can you do? All right? Are you done? 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:19.360 I'm trying to explain the story, and so through a 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:24.319 series of difficulties. Now it's made more challenging because of 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:27.520 the parliamentary issues involving the Senate and reconciliation. But that 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:29.680 doesn't as I said to him that day, it doesn't matter. 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:34.880 Most Americans don't care about reconciliation. But anyway, here comes 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:38.000 the President and the Vice President up to the podium. 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:41.240 We're gonna dip in now, shaking the hands of members 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:47.040 of Congress. Two seventeen boats in the House. And Obamacare 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:50.319 as we know it is dead and gone and thankfully buried. 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:52.560 And there are a lot of conservatives that made this 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:55.880 day happen. There are moderates that I'm disappointed in. Though 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:59.079 there's Mark Meadows, Paul Ryan and Mark Meadows shaking the 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:02.360 President's hand. They're joking. I wish I knew what they said, 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:05.440 but whatever it is, I'll find out later. 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Today, thanks to the perseverance, 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:27.000 the determination, and the leadership of President Donald Trump and 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:29.960 all the support of those gathered here, we've taken a 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:36.040 historic first step to repeal and replace Obamacare and finally 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:39.120 give the American people the kind of health care they deserved. 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:52.080 So today, with heartfelt gratitude for all he has done 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:55.000 to keep his word to the American people, and for 0:13:55.160 --> 0:14:00.240 all he will do to continue to make America could 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:04.960 great again, it is my high honor and distinct privilege 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:13.520 to introduce to you the President. Thank you, thank you, 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:32.440 thank you. Mike. That's the group. Thank you, thank you 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:34.440 very much. This really is the group. What a great 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:37.680 group of people. And they're not even doing it for 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.640 the party. They're doing it for this country because we 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:45.120 suffered with Obamacare. I went through two years of campaigning 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:48.840 and I'm telling you, no matter where I went, people 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:54.600 were suffering so badly with the ravages of Obamacare. And 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:57.920 I will say this that, as far as I'm concerned, 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:00.800 your premiums, they're gonna start to come down. We're going 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:03.520 to get this passed through the Senate. I feel so 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:08.200 confident you're deductibles. When it comes to deductibles, they were 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:13.480 so ridiculous that nobody got to use their current plan. Uh, 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:16.360 this non existent plan that I heard so many wonderful 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:18.920 things about over the last three or four days after that. 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:21.320 I mean, it's I don't think you're gonna hear so 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:24.800 much right now. The insurance companies are fleeing. It's been 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:28.080 a catastrophe. And this is a great plan. I actually 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:30.680 think it will get even better. And this is make 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:35.520 no mistake. This is a repeal and a replace of Obamacare. 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:42.800 Make no mistake about it, make no ma said. And 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:47.120 I think most importantly, yes, premiums will be coming down, Yes, 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:51.520 deductibles will be coming down, But very importantly, it's a 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:55.040 great plan. And ultimately that's what it's all about. We 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:58.360 knew that wasn't going to work. I predicted it a 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:01.760 long time ago. I said it's failing, and now it's 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:05.520 obvious that it's failing. It's dead. It's essentially dead. If 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:08.080 we don't pay lots of ransom money over to the 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:11.560 insurance companies, that would die immediately. So what we have 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:16.600 is something very very incredibly well crafted. Tell you what, 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:20.800 there is a lot of talent standing behind me, an 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:24.160 unbelievable amount of talent that I can tell you. I 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:29.400 mean it. And you know, coming from a different world 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:32.400 and only being a politician for a short period of time, 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:34.440 how am I doing? Am I doing? Okay, I'm president? 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:39.400 Hey a president? Do you believe it? Right? I don't know. 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:42.960 It's I thought you needed a little bit more more time. 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:45.320 They always told me in more time, but we didn't. 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:49.360 But we have an amazing group of people standing behind me. 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:53.480 They worked so hard, and they worked so long, and 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:56.080 what I said, let's do this. Let's go out, just 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:59.040 short little shots for each one of us, and let's 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:01.240 say how good this plant is. We don't have to 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:04.840 talk about this unbelievable victory. Wasn't it unbelievable? So we 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.159 don't have to say it again. But it's gonna be 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:11.080 an unbelievable victory actually when we get it through the Senate, 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:13.880 and there's so much spirit there. But I said, let's 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:16.040 go out. We have a little list of some of 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:18.360 the people, and I think after that list goes if 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:21.440 they don't talk too long our first list, we're gonna 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:23.080 let some of the other folks just come up and 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:26.119 say whatever you want. But we want to brag about 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:34.480 the plan because this plan really oh well, yeah we may, 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:39.120 but we're just gonna talk a little bit about the plan, 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:41.520 how good it is, some of the great features. I 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:46.160 want to thank Paul Ryan. He has worked so hard. 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:53.119 And I was joking, I said, you know, Paul, for 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:56.679 the last week, I've been hearing Paul Ryan doesn't have it. 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:59.960 It's not working with Paul Ryan. He's going to get 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:02.439 rid of Paul Ryan. Then today I heard Paul Ryan's 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:07.679 a genius. He's come along. I think, whatever, you know, 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:10.520 the groups have all come together. We have the Tuesday Group, 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:13.120 we have so many groups. We have the Freedom Caucus, 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:15.680 we have and they're all great people, but we have 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:18.520 a lot of groups. But they all came together. Really, Paul, 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:22.040 I'd say in the last three or four days, especially 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:24.840 in the last day. See Mark, and I see Kevin. 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:28.399 I see so many people. Jim Uh. We just have 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:32.040 developed a bond. This has really brought the Republican Party together. 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:36.320 As much as we've come up with a really incredible 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:41.720 health care plan, this has brought the Republican Party together. 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:44.920 We're going to get this finished and then we're going, 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:47.040 as you know, we put our tax plan in. It's 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:50.320 a massive tax cunt. The biggest tax cut in the 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:53.240 history of our country. I used to say the biggest 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:58.040 since Ronald Reagan. Now it's bigger than that. Also, pure 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:01.239 tax reform. So we're gonna get that done next and 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:03.360 this really helps it. A lot of people said, how 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:06.879 come you kept pushing healthcare knowing how tough it is. 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:12.720 Don't forget Obamacare took seventeen months. Hillary Clinton tried so hard, 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:17.960 really valiantly, in all fairness to get healthcare through didn't happen. 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:21.080 We've really been doing this for eight weeks if you 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:23.719 think about it, and this is a real plan, this 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:27.480 is a great plan, and we had no support from 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:31.880 the other party. So I just want to introduce somebody 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:34.760 to say a few words who really has been I 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:38.159 think treated very unfairly. But it no longer matters because 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:41.160 we won, and we're gonna finish it off, and we're 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:42.960 gonna go into a lot of other things, and we 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:48.040 are going to have a tremendous four years and maybe 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:51.359 even more importantly, we're going to have a tremendous eight years. 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:54.119 But we're going to start off with just a great 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:57.040 first year. And Paul Ryan come up and say a 0:19:57.040 --> 0:20:00.600 few words. Congratulations on a job well done. Can you 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:10.800 get fixed in stuff? Thank uh, thank you guys, thank 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:18.040 you uh first uh, thank you, Mr President, thank you, 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:24.320 thank you for your leadership Um. There are too many 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:27.399 people to name who played such an important role in 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:30.040 helping us get to this part, but I want to 0:20:30.040 --> 0:20:32.480 thank of a few people in particular. I want to 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:37.159 thank Chairman Greg Walden, Kevin Brady, Dane affiliates across the 0:20:37.320 --> 0:20:40.280 Sean Hannity Show network. We will stay with us through 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:42.560 the bottom of the hour. If you would like to 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:46.000 be with us, We're gonna continue to hold this press conference. 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:48.159 The House is passed the new pass, the new GOP 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:52.080 healthcare bill, not one Democrat supporting, and they are at 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:56.400 the White House collaborative, consensus driven effort. I also want 0:20:56.400 --> 0:20:58.840 to thank the team here the White House. I want 0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:01.760 to thank Tom Price, I want to thank McK mulvaney, 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:04.160 and I especially want to thank Ranks previous. We could 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:07.520 not have done this without you, gentlemen. You guys are 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:15.400 the best. Of course, this would not have been possible 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:17.480 if that weren't for these two gentlemen behind me. This 0:21:17.520 --> 0:21:19.720 is the fourth presidency I've served with I have never 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:24.000 ever seen any kind of engagement like this. I want 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:26.160 to thank Mike Prince and I want to thank President 0:21:26.160 --> 0:21:29.480 Donald Trump for their personal involvement in working with our 0:21:29.480 --> 0:21:31.439 members and working to get this right, for getting this 0:21:31.720 --> 0:21:41.080 done and getting us to where we are. Thank you gentlemen. Today, 0:21:41.080 --> 0:21:43.280 it was a big day, but it is just one 0:21:43.320 --> 0:21:46.879 step in this process, an important step. We still have 0:21:46.920 --> 0:21:48.320 a lot of work to do to get this signed 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:50.520 into law, and I know that our friends over in 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:55.760 the Senate are eager to get to work. They are 0:21:57.040 --> 0:21:59.080 We're going to see that work through. You know why 0:21:59.160 --> 0:22:01.480 We're going to see this through because the issues are 0:22:01.560 --> 0:22:05.439 just too important, The stakes are just too high. The 0:22:05.520 --> 0:22:10.399 problems facing American families are real, and the problems facing 0:22:10.400 --> 0:22:13.760 American families as a result of Obamacare are just too 0:22:13.800 --> 0:22:17.960 dire and too urgent. Just this week, just this week, 0:22:18.000 --> 0:22:21.800 we learned of another state, Iowa, where the last remaining 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:25.040 healthcare plan is pulling out of ninety four of their 0:22:25.160 --> 0:22:29.560 nine counties, leaving most of their citizens with no plans 0:22:29.600 --> 0:22:33.440 on the Obama market at all. What kind of protection 0:22:33.760 --> 0:22:36.840 is Obamacare if there are no plans to choose from. 0:22:36.880 --> 0:22:39.320 And this is a trend that we're seeing all across 0:22:39.400 --> 0:22:43.840 the country. The truth is this law has failed and 0:22:44.240 --> 0:22:48.959 is collapsing. Premiums are skyrocketing, and choices are disappearing, and 0:22:48.960 --> 0:22:52.719 it is only getting worse, spiraling out of control, and 0:22:52.800 --> 0:22:55.840 that is why we have to repeal this law and 0:22:55.880 --> 0:23:01.439 put in place a real vibrant marketplace with competition and 0:23:01.560 --> 0:23:04.760 lower premiums for families. That's what the American health Care 0:23:04.800 --> 0:23:08.679 Act is all about. It makes healthcare more affordable, It 0:23:08.720 --> 0:23:11.879 takes care of our most vulnerable, and it shifts power 0:23:11.920 --> 0:23:15.000 from Washington back to the States, and most importantly, back 0:23:15.040 --> 0:23:17.960 to you, the patient. Like I said, we've got a 0:23:17.960 --> 0:23:20.639 lot of work to do, but one thing is now clear. 0:23:21.240 --> 0:23:24.919 Republicans are committed to keeping our promise to lift the 0:23:24.960 --> 0:23:28.000 burden of Obamacare from the American people and put in 0:23:28.080 --> 0:23:31.919 place a better, more patient centered system. It is my 0:23:32.000 --> 0:23:34.639 pleasure at this time to think and to welcome to 0:23:34.640 --> 0:23:37.400 the stage someone who helped make this so possible are 0:23:37.600 --> 0:23:43.400 very talented Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy. So a big bear 0:23:43.480 --> 0:23:46.960