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You saw the tweet that is the president set out earlier today unapologetic for it, whats your thinking on that whole thing about what the president tweeted and how that plays in into these calls for greater civility in political discourse. >> i would approach it more generically and say we probably dont need to question the adversaries motives. president obama wanted to help more people get health care, obamacare failed but i dont question his motives or goodness as a person in trying to do it. ...

Advantage of? >> its interesting because the reconciliation process which a lot of people have been up in arms about is how theaaffordable care act got passed. if they have three dissenting votes, they wont be able to pass it. one of the theyre struggling with, once you pass a bill like this that provides benefits to people, its very hard to take it away. like social security, a lot of other systems that have been deba debated. the merits of the affordable care act, there needs to be improvement...

Insurance market are because they repealed portions of the affordable care act through appropriations process that made it very, very unsustnable for insurance companies to participate. they do own all of the problems with the health care system right now. if they worked with us to try to correct some of those, replacing or retaining the risk corridor, the payments im talking about and giving certainty to the insurance companies, we would not have the problems. they deserve to be held accountabl...

Didnt work out so well after the aca was passed and democrats had the power based on the 2008 election and the tea party rose up. clean sweep for 2010 and the power shifting the dynamic in d.c. republicans are on the defense now about this, they basically get to own this. there was basically two dozen districts carried by clinton. is that vulnerable territory for the republicans and what it means for the constituents they have to face in light of this? >> it absolutely is. this is a great study ...

But we also no obamacare was passed without any republican support. it didnt have a lot of public support. thats why the republicans gained so many seats in the house and the senate. now its completely reversed. what obamacare did is offer a benefit in the form of mostly medicaid, that is health care to the poor. the other part is the exchanges where you dont get your insurance from an employer, you get it on your own in the individual market. a lot of people saw their rates skyrocket and also s...

Absolutely fundamental to the affordable care act. its what they spent months going round and round about. whats the economic impact? how many people lose insurance? thats where on the senate side it will be a critical part of this debate and how the conversation plays out. >> democrats and even president obama agreed with the fact that the living entity of obamacare needed reform, needed modern updates as you tick along. this is something entirely different. what we see, as we show the video of...

>> im more focused as they were celebrating recovering a fumble. aca obamacare is still the law of the land, and unless it passes the senate and gets to the presidents desk, it will remain the law of the land. in fact, there is no replace. lets be clear about that. the republicans have not been honest about that, theres not been a repeal of obamacare nor will there be a repeal of obamacare. what theyre trying to do is amend it. what theyre trying to do is amend something that i believe was bad w...

Conversation about what -- >> as we speak about the power dynamic before i have to go, the hill has the headline, no women among senators working on obamacare repeal bill. how does that happen? >> i can tell you my household is full of women. women have much more experience with health care than men do typically, because a lot of men go to the doctor when they absolutely have to. women routinely go to the doctor, particularly with child care. theyre much for familiar with going to the doctor. th...

>> well, youve got to pay for covering, for example, medicaid expansion. youve got to cover the pre-existing condition clause. the way that was covered before had to do with taxes, but also had to do with taxes on insurance company, medical device companies and some of the hospitals. removing all that, how do we cover and even out the marketplace which is what the affordable care act strove to do, to make sure everybody was insured and make sure the poorest and the sickest had some kind of balan...

Investigation. i do not think that putting it in the hands of the more partisan house and senate committees is enough. >> okay. bianna, david french, chris kofin kofinis, thanks to all three of you for joining us. appreciate that. quick break. on the other side, will they have the votes? to republican house member s wh initially came out against the obamacare replacement plan, they have changed course. theyre for it. it is changing the math. republicans have a real chance of getting this thing...