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That require plans covered some benefits, a wide range of benefits including maternity care. will the president negotiate with the hard line conservatives on those or will he standby the so-called ryan bill, the repeal and replace bill thats now before congress as sean spicer said he would on friday? >> chris, i think the president has been very open and transparent on the issue that hes been willing to accept improvement for the bill. we have gone out of our way and the president has said this ...

>> two. >> two. a clean bill is very unlikely to get through the senate. everyone knows that. chris: michael. >> a very unfair way to frame the issue. you have one chance on 51-vote republican threshold and what conservatives are saying, take the architecture of obamacare and do the rest when you need to get democrats. what theyre proposing going through is the exact opposite. you do the rest now and magically get 60 votes, eight democrats, now that you passed your bill that keeps the architectu...

Jason, how do you answer common sense? >> one problem is the democrats have been slow-walking a lot of the nominees that trump has put forward. he habit had a lot of time to work with his team in place and now that he does have a team in place things are moving along. chris, conservatives have to decide whether theyre going to do whats achievable or pragmatic here or perfect enemy of the good here. the reality here is that a lot of the stuff in this bill paul ryan doesnt like. he doesnt like med...

That require plans covered some benefits, a wide range of benefits including maternity care. will the president negotiate with the hard line conservatives on those or will he standby the so-called ryan bill, the repeal and replace bill thats now before congress as sean spicer said he would on friday? >> chris, i think the president has been very open and transparent on the issue that hes been willing to accept improvement for the bill. we have gone out of our way and the president has said this ...

Insurance regulations, all the mandated coverage in there that drive up the costs, those have to be dealt with if we are ultimately going to bring down the costs for working-class families and if we put that many the bill, may have parliamentary ruling on it but i think we can win that as well and use that strategy to actually repeal and replace it with something thats going to be helpful. >> congressman, here is the problem, if you blow up senate rules and you basically say you can pass almost ...

Was bringing had not been spirit, capitol hill, congressional leadership with binary choice, either take it or leave it approach. the fundamental problems that this bill keeps architecture of obamacare in place. many of those regulations stay in place. because regulations drive costs people in driving buying health insurance, this bill gets rid of individual mandate and replaces individuals on insurers to try to have continuous coverage. because you have driven up the cost of healthcare insuranc...

Speaker and what went through the committee this week. it went through the committee, not one single amendment was allowed to be offered. thats not how the process is supposed to work. im not for this plan and theres a lot of opposition in house and senate. >> congressman jordan, thank you, its always good to talk with you, sir. >> thank you, chris. >> coming up we are bringing our sunday group to assess the prospects for passing the repeal and replace bill and whether even if it passes barack o...

51 votes. i talked to senators, they dont want congressman telling them how to run chamber. >> thats fine, chris. what we told the american people, we told them we were going to repeal obamacare and replace it with something thats going to bring down cost of insurance. we didnt tell the american people we were going to repeal obamacare but keep some of the taxes in there. we didnt tell the american people we were going to repeal obamacare and extend it. we didnt tell them we were going to repeal...

Insurance regulations, all the mandated coverage in there that drive up the costs, those have to be dealt with if we are ultimately going to bring down the costs for working-class families and if we put that many the bill, may have parliamentary ruling on it but i think we can win that as well and use that strategy to actually repeal and replace it with something thats going to be helpful. >> congressman, here is the problem, if you blow up senate rules and you basically say you can pass almost ...

Hes insisting that they cross state lines. >> do you think ending expansion of medicaid next year rat -- than slowout in 2020, do you think that improves the bill? >> we are trying to give the governors to control what is going on in the state. many of the governs are done a very good with healthcare in their states and we are trying to work with the governors to give them more control of what theyre doing in their states. >> how important is this bill to the president? how hard will he fight fo...