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Trying to get to some of our members today. i know tomorrow macarthur is doing the same thing, trying to really thread the needle. youre talking about a waiver. if a governor of new jersey wants to keep obamacare just like it is with the very few exceptions that were in the base bill, they can do that. but a governor of another state, whether it be texas, nebraska or florida, can waive out of some of those things that drive up premiums. its the best of both worlds. its a compromise. its not a pe...

Them gone and some people wanted them kept? where are you now with those? >> i think thats one of the objects under discussion. look, im for giving governors more flexibility in states. im for all of that. that was a big part of medicaid reforms tackled in the bill and giving governors flexibility of block grant, capital allotment, threading the needle between medicaid expansion states and medicaid nonexpansion states. so all of that was very important groundwork, which was done in the base bill...

Obamacare, let the states do what they wish. >> we have to do what the voters sent us here to do and thats to repeal it and replace it. >> what do you say to them? they say anything short of 100% repeal is a nonstarters. i know you, for example, want to keep some of the popular parts of obamacare, like allowing adult children to stay on their parents plan. they are republicans you just heard. they say no. >> you know, last year we put a bill on the presidents desk to repeal obamacare. it passed ...

Because of the one out of ten brave souls who did report these cases, 62% were retaliated against. so you have a culture, and unfortunately a climate within our military where theres too much fear to be able to seek justice and its so broken. even the commandant of the marine corps says the reason they dont report these cases is they dont trust us they dont trust the chain of command. >> there has been some reform. what are some of the reforms -- what has been done recently? >> as chair of the p...

Already been passed through the committee into the base bill. every woman in the senate feels passionately about this. and together we have elevated the issue. we actually are -- it is a number one national issue across the country. so womens voices matter and thats why i spend so much of my time politically asking women to participate, to vote, to be add voluntary cats and then help women get elected. they bring a life experience, that sensibility, that extra emotional intelligence to an issue ...

Workers do you think will be able to get into this country under this bill with this new amendment? do you have any sort of number? >> so i think the border will be secure. there will be always -- i mean, i think in any country, jake, you have people who make it in through the country. theres all kinds of ways who are have done it. this is focused on the southern border, not on the northern border. but one of the key elements is to improve our legal immigration component. thats one of the reason...

That the senate gang of eight, and i will continue to call them gang members, that they stuck together. they were actually able to defeat the worst amendments that had been offered, many amendments actually werent offered up for a vote and, in fact, we were able to get many affirmative positive amendments through, so i think at the end of the markup, the bill has been mostly unscathed, slightly improved. that said, there are actually a lot of problems in the base bill, as felipe mentioned, for e...

Flying loose in our society. why wouldnt you want -- i mean, putting mental health aside, we should do it together but we cant apparently in washington. why wouldnt you want a better background check system, a more complete one, or one at least that is better than the one we have? why wouldnt you vote for that? >> the one that we have now they are not implementing and not enforcing. what makes you think they will enforce one that does more checks on more people? i mean, thats my question. and in...

2014. arkansass mark pryor and alaskas mark begich. they voted against moving the vote for. begich explained his vote to nbc. >> i vote whats important for alaska. its not a party decision, its not a conservative versus liberal. my issue is that the base bill thats in front of us right now does not show, it has a lot of issues with it. >> gun ownership is highest in rural america, in red america, and in the south. take a look at mark pryor. he represents all three. meanwhile, take a look at a ki...

What we would do is we would change that. >> with me now, candy crowley, "state of the union" and our chief political correspondent. both the senators, it also explicitly bans a national firearms registry. a lot of people were fearful that could be created. do you think thats enough to allay the fire fears, to get a for those opposed to gun legislation? >> not all of them, but the nature of a compromise is to pull as many people in from both sides as you can. and i dont think that this compromis...