Hey everyone, we're here for another GADFest Special.

I'm pretending that I'm a news reporter.

John actually is a news reporter.

David's phone connection didn't work, so it's just the two of us.

Okay, so the house, house care bill has been pulled from the floor.

It will not come up for a vote today.

John, what happened?

By the way, we should just note that this is a breaking news of breaking news.

This is like our third update.

We're basically one step away from being a wire service.

So what happened was the Donald Trump said, come hell or high water, he's going to have them

take the vote.

That was either a big, big gamble or it was a negotiating posture telling people that

it's kind of the last tool you can use in the negotiator's toolkit.

And then it didn't work.

They couldn't get the votes.

Paul Ryan went over to the White House, explained that they couldn't get the votes.

The problem was the old bump in the rug problem.

Every time they pushed down the bump in one place, it shows up on another.

So they were taking away the essential health benefits from not taking them away, but allowing

states to have control over them to win over conservative votes.

But every time they got a couple over there, they lost moderate votes, including the chairman

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