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The 1990s. and trying to move and give back to the states the power they need to run medicaid programs and other health care programs. one of the things the aca did was take all this power away from the states to run their own health care programs. what they want to do and what theyre talking about is giving that back in the form of providing more money for medicaid for them. but giving them wide-open possibilities of how they would like to set it up for their people. what is best in montana, wh...

States that hillary clinton actually won. what can president trump to to sway them if he sitting at 40% in his approval rating, he doesnt have a lot of juice with those members. it is drowning out his ability to get things done but there are all these dynamics happening on the hill to some degree hes not going to be able to control. >> bret: is apparently hosting some g.o.p. senators at the white house for dinner tonight. more of that arm-twisting perhaps im hearing that the on the scenes a lot ...

What can president trump to to sway them if he sitting at 40% in his approval rating, he doesnt have a lot of juice with those members. it is drowning out his ability to get things done but there are all these dynamics happening on the hill to some degree hes not going to be able to control. >> bret: is apparently hosting some g.o.p. senators at the white house for dinner tonight. more of that arm-twisting perhaps im hearing that the on the scenes a lot of big donors are putting the pressure on ...

The senate anyway so how they get anywhere on this is really beyond me at this point. mitch mcconnell i will say and donald trump are pulling out all the stops, someone at the white house told me last night that they think they can get this done with good old-fashioned arm twisting and horse trading but its not clear to me what horses they have to trade and whose arms they can twist enough. because this bill is so toxic, so unpopular and theres just really no political incentive for them to get ...

Caucus and all of the caucuses skip the beginning of their august recess. hes keeping all the republicans in d.c. for basically multi-ball bonus time so he can have more access to them for back room dealing and arm twisting. a problem for him, though is that theres a giant boulder rolling toward him on monday. a new cbo score, a new estimate of exactly how many people will lose all health insurance because of what theyre trying to do. that new cbo score is due on monday. if, as is expected, it i...

>> thats what its like in congressional offices around the country right now. republicans on the hill came out with their new and improved version of their obamacare repeal bill on yesterday. did make some miner tweaks but the bottom line is the same. it takes a blowtorch to medicaid. medicaid provides more people with health insurance than any other health insurance provider in this country. the republican bill is expected to cause millions of americans who currently have health insurance to lo...

Health insurance altogether. so far two republican senators have come out against the republican bill, rand paul and susan collins. they cant afford any more defections. otherwise, the bill will die. senator mitch mcconnell is making the senators of his caucus and all of the caucuses skip the beginning of their august recess. hes keeping all the republicans in d.c. for basically multi-ball bonus time so he can have more access to them for back room dealing and arm twisting. a problem for him, th...

August recess. hes keeping all the republicans in d.c. for basically multi-ball bonus time, so he can have more access to them for back room dealing and arm twisting. the problem for him, though is theres a giant boulder rolling toward him on monday. a new cbo score. a new estimate of exactly how many people will lose all health insurance because of what theyre trying to do. that new cbo score is due on monday. if as expected it is terrible news, that will presumably only make it harder for him ...

Get it now. there is going to be a lot of arm-twisting, a lot of trying to persuade and there may be some amendments on the senate floor. there certainly is not a rush to support this bill. if there is any hope on the part of mitch mcconnell and other republican leaders of this was going to solve it and everybody would salute smartly and go on board, that hasnt happened yet. >> julie: we will have to wait and see. chris wallace, thank you very much, great to see you as always. >> leland: this ca...

Yet this new president has kind of put a halt on further installations saying he wanted to have an environmental analysis of how those things would work. while others say, listen, if theres no south korea, the environment doesnt really matter. we can imagine theyll continue some of those conversations tonight as well. >> leland: the south koreans have seem to become a little more hawkish after the icbm test. that seems to have been a change. north korean, video coming out. a joint statement comi...