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Somebody. >> theyve kicked it down the road. >> go to robert for a minute. report this. >> there is a belief inside of the senate republican cloak room that this could be patched together. if youre pat toomey and get what you want and make sure it doesnt expand as much as it does under the aca. if youre senator portman you get the opioid. if youre senator collins you get abortion coverage. its not hard line conservative and you get what you want on medicaid. theres a belief because trumps not gu...

Strict restrictions on how you could use with obamacare coverage that included abortion coverage. thats been watered down a bit without getting into too many details n senate version. those moderate republics would like to see this bill be less strident when it comes to social conservativism. >> you mentioned the georgia special election before. i want to bring that up. the gop were thrilled because of this win but it is a long held republican seat. should they be concerned that it was that clos...

Senators on a wind down is probably not as problematic for caucus, its about driveing down premiums for you and me and everybody else. >> if we talk about potential deal breakers, if thats not one of them. let me ask you about this. the house bill is banning the use of federal tax credits to ban abortion coverage. this could become a real flash point. there is talk that is not going to fly in the senate. is that a deal is breaker for you? >> well, i think theyre trying, certainly its a deal brea...

About how women should be treated. but i just want to pick up on what kelly said about states rights and states participations in this. its important to know that the action taken in the house trump care bill will very well likely make it impossible for states like new york and california that have inquired that women in the state have abortion coverage. it will practically make it impossible for them to have a higher standard of abortion covera coverage. were talking about this potentially as i...

$20,000 in insurance premiums and have $6,000 deductibles and astronomical co-payments, you know, were offering tax credits to those people to help them buy insurance. those tax credits are not available to the people in new york. its illegal to use tax credits to support policies that will provide abortion procedures, and in new york we require every insurance company to provide abortion procedures. so the help that we were going to give those hard-working people who dont get their insurance fr...

I dont think i figured this out policy-wise before. so what youre saying is theres actually this kind of train crash for blue states that -- or democratic states or pro-choice states that have these requirements for abortion coverage, and the current tax to the republican bill in terms of the applicability of the subsidies. >> yeah, the tax credits are unusable. and one of the third things -- >> wait. how is any republican in california and new york going to vote for this thing? >> i dont know. ...

Worse plan with higher deductibles and more co-pays. >> does it necessarily mean that, senator? lower costs because youre getting a worse plan? >> well, we do believe in choice. and what obamacare never did is give people choices and ratcheted up the benefits for everyone -- >> it did have requirements for certain things that are important for people to have, right? it included -- maybe you disagree -- but some things people would like to have like maternity care as an example. >> for little sis...

On the wiretapping stuff. hes taken a strong stand on the russian stuff, the white house is enraged about john mccain and they are trying to find ways to politically marginalize him and elevate other voices within the party like senator named tom cotton. they want mccain sidelined. >> im with mccain on that one. by the way, mccain will never be forgot within what he accused with that woman that accused obama being arrogant. thats profile in courage stuff. trump hasnt done one of those yet. >> i ...

Campaign. about a third of the states have laws on the books already that make certain campaign lies illegal. steve dryhouse is a former moderate democrat from cincinnati. the apt abortion group the susan b. anthony list wanted to target him for voting yes on the affordable care act. part of a national campaign the group was launching against democrats. it was supposed to read shame on steve driehaus. the only problem was he described himself as pro life. one of several democratic numbers who ti...

But when you start shutting down speech by one side of a political debate and favoring another side of a political debate, youre getting very close to endangering free speech itself. in fact you are cutting off political speech, which is very rooted in the founding of our nation and its why its protected in the constitution. >> i want to go to the crux of your argument a little bit because i covered the health care debate quite closely and i remember following around bart stupak and the whole la...