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About how to strategically deal with those two sort of big goals of the majority. >> speaking of mitch mcconnell, yes, mitch mcconnell will have the largest say in how quickly this moves, how this goes. hes also, betsy, hes one of the members of this working group of 13 senators that are going to be working through all of this, but what does it say that susan collins, who will be a key voice in this, other senators like bill cassidy who have been really skeptical of the efforts so far, theyre no...

Talking to republican aides and operatives over the weekend, people are aware, its extremely obvious. so, the question becomes, are house republicans, potentially senate republicans, willing to actually lose their seats because they care so much about repealing and replacing the affordable care act? when president obama was doing health care reform years ago, there were democrats who knew they were going to lose their seats, but the vision, sort of the goal is theoretically a bit more compelling...

See, i think the fundamental issue here are the resources. i dont want to give you exactly the numbers, but its about half the resources in this bill that were in obamacare. now, i can tell you that we can do with less resources, but you cant do it overnight and you cannot give people a $3,000 or $4,000 health insurance policy. you know where theyre going to be? theyre going to be living in the emergency rooms again. >> reporter: okay, that perspective is shared by a number of senators, rob port...

Surprise. >> the majority whip was on "morning joe" this morning. heres what he had to say. >> everyone with a preexisting condition right now who is covered urn obamacare will continue to be covered. >> absolutely. >> their rates will remain affordable even though theres more flexibility for insurance companies state by state? >> their rates will remain affordable. >> scalise is reporting what the president said, everybody is going to be concverage, its gog to be better conch verage is th true?...

Bill. i think we will do so and that we will come up with a whole new, fresh that solves the legitimate flaws that do exist with the aca. i would like to see us put together a bipartisan group to solve this problem. >> starting from scratch. what does that really look like at this moment, errol? >> well, what it would look like is a long, arduous process that will go well beyond the real deadline here. because look, to the extent that susan collins is talking about dealing with health care itsel...