Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for March 24th, 2017, a Gab Fest extra, extra, extra, extra.

It is Friday morning, the 24th of March.

We are awaiting health care vote. We didn't talk about health care on our

main show yesterday. We wanted to do an extra just about Ryancare, Obamacare, Trump care, ACCA.

And so we're going to do it today. And as events change, we may do even more, but we just want to do a quick update on

what's going on. So, John, we're taping now. It's a little before 10 in the morning on Friday.

By the way, that's John Dickerson of Face Nation, Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine,

and I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. So yeah, you know that. John, here we are at 10 a.m.

What is the process, what does the process look to be for this bill today?

Well, the president has gone from supporting Trump care to I don't care, which is the message

he sent to Republicans. He stopped listening to their complaints and things they want to put in the bill,

particularly those in the Freedom Caucus. And he said, go vote for it. And you, if you want to

disappoint all the voters who sent us here, that's on you. So it's the kind of last thing you can do

in a negotiation, which is say, I'm, you know, I'm going to leave. And you hope that that shocks the

35 or so that the CBS Capitol Hill team had counted were against the bill as of Thursday night.

And, you know, on the one hand, that looks perilous. They need 22 to get it over the finish line.

But on the other hand, when you're in the majority and there are, you know, in the final push, it's often the case that the majority party gets its way using a variety of different emotional and political appeals. So it's all sort of hanging in the balance here. And it may take all day long before we ever get to an actual vote.

But so this is a vote, a bill, which according to current polling is favored by 17% of voters. And a president who has the approval rating of 37 percent, will House Republicans

feel that really voting for this is the better choice than not voting for it?

And admittedly, then reneging on the major thing they've talked about, but that to

endorse a bill that is this unpopular, that is this incoherent, that is being jammed through so

quickly and viciously that that will be a mistake that will come back and haunt them even more

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