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To try to figure out something? >> there are a couple things you could have done. instead of doing this through reconciliation, try to pass a bill that can get broad consensus, get democrats on board and fix obamacare. there are parts of it that the public likes that even donald trump likes, there are parts that are not working. you could have tried to go that way, or you could have tried to do a more conservative bill. and the thing the conservatives want is to get rid of the third party payer ...

Fundamental concerns about the bill. does the bill need a drastic overhaul, not just tinkering as senator collins suggested? the alternative is, as mcconnell sbe mate intimated, if this doesnt pass, working with democrats -- >> look, there are a couple of things you could have done, one idea is to actually instead of trying to do this through reconciliation, try to pass a bill that can get broad consensus, can get democrats onboard and actually fix obamacare. there were parts of it that are mayb...

Lets pass this, and they narrowly did. are we seeing something potentially similar in the senate? >> potentially, its deja vu all over again. i was thinking how this was playing out like the house process in that way, which is specifically paul ryan had to pull that bill, you know, cancel that vote on the floor of the house mostly because he didnt have enough of his own conservatives, the house freedom caucus wasnt on board. they moved the bill further to the right than it was, they got that big...

The vulnerable and the sick and the in firmed. >> chairman of the american conservative union and ed rendell former governor of pennsylvania and chair of the democratic committee. this is reminiscent of 2010 democrats returned back to their districts talking about obamacare. i guess the thing i find particularly painful to me, everybody is so upset because health is so important yet the fact is that we arent even sure what this bill will do and people havent read it and we all have taken sides a...

>> he was ready to make a deal. we were negotiating with paul, kevin mccarthy, right up to tuesday. all of a sudden they had a meeting and theyd decided we are so close to having the number we need. lets go to war, get the president help us go to war against the people -- when ryan and those guys at abandoning. trades with a colleague in the house, republican from north carolina, congressman, good, congressman, good to have you this morning. first react to congressman louie gohmerts remarks. >> ...

Health care. so how does this square with the president trying to reach out to democrats in your eyes? >> i think the president wants to get things done, thats kind of who he is. but he does need to work more, i think, with republicans. my friends in the freedom caucus need to realize that if the presidents forced to go deal with democrats, its going to be a much less conservative bill. and what the freedom caucus folks, who are -- the folks who most people believe are stopping this -- want a mo...

They are to a come proto poise thats really going to work? >> i think theyre a good distance away, and i do believe, as mark was saying, that the president has unique, persuasive powers. but there are 40-odd members of the so-called freedom caucus that have been very reluctant to commit to this bill. and be unless it is sixed in a way that moved -- it is fixed in a way that moves to a more conservative direction, less of an apparent mandate and more cuts, i dont think theyre going to support it ...

>> zero evidence for what youre saying. >> thirdly, say that 14 million people in the individual market will not have coverage because wont choose to have it any more. even though have the subsidies, not penalty. thats not losing but choosing. about 5 million people will lose. >> so many things wrong with what you said wont get to all of them. but most importantly this, as political matter republicans are learning that opposition is easy and proposition is very hard. irreconcilable conflict in t...

Will cover fewer people without the employer mandate. in fact, theyre going to cover millions more as they did before the mandate. just a moment. thirdly they say 14 million people in the individual market will not have coverage because they wont choose to have it anymore, even though theyll still have the subsidies, there will be no penalty for not having it. thats not losing coverage, thats choosing not to buy it anymore. so about 5 million people will lose coverage, not 24 million. >> there a...

Bill. looks improbable. >> jon: they say it will save $337 billion. you can buy a lot of healthcare with that. >> i would say that -- the house republicans, democrats are saying this is a tax cut. the house republicans love those numbers. internally the real problem that were seeing down the road here is that theres the house and senate are completely divided. even in the republican leadership. theres divisions. the house freedom caucus is pushing outside consumer groups are pushing the senate t...