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Can California Democrats work with President Trump on health care? Or anything?
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Mar 27, 2017
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Can California Democrats work with President Trump on health care? Or anything?
By now everyone is familiar with Friday's failed attempt by the GOP to repeal and replace Obamacare.
Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., won re-election as House minority leader on Wednesday with support from just over two-thirds of her caucus.
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By now everyone is familiar with Friday's failed attempt by the GOP to repeal and replace Obamacare.

By now everyone is familiar with Friday's failed attempt by the GOP to repeal and replace Obamacare.

Faced with opposition from moderates and conservatives, Speaker Paul Ryan and President Trump reluctantly pulled the Republican health care bill at the last moment. But if a Republican President, and a House and Senate both controlled by Republicans can't unite around a health care bill, what does that mean going forward?

Well, President Trump suggested last week, maybe Democrats would be willing to play ball. "If they got together with us and get a real health care bill, I'd be totally open to it and I think that's going to happen," he said.

But that might be kind of hard when the Democrats' leader in the House, California's Nancy Pelosi, reveled in the Republicans' failure last week. "Today is a great day for our country. It's a victory - what happened on the floor was a victory for the American people," she said.

To explore what's in the Democrats' court and the sway they may have in the future of the health care debate, A Martinez spoke to Scott Shafer, senior editor of the California politccs and government desk at public broadcasting's KQED in San Francisco. 

To hear the full interview with Scott Shafer, click on the blue media player above