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Youd be looking at 27, 28 million people losing coverage. no matter how they sequence this, they still end up back in the same place which is a core problem they have, is that the modern republican coalition includes an awful lot of lower middle income and older white voters who have benefited from the affordable care act. the urban institute projected just last week who would lose coverage under the senate health care bill. 80% of them didnt have a college degree. 70% of them were working full ...

Some sane canceled altogether. what you think? >> they are in a tough position. there is a thought that rand paul has been talking about repealing now and replacing later. does the g.o.p. leaderships plan back in november, december just to put that on the desk in january. that was because it doesnt actually repeal the core problems of obamacare. its the regulations. these obamacare regulations in place. basically delay getting rid of the subsidies. that is not a realistic option. what is interes...

Obviously, you know how democrats are voting on this already. >> right. democrats are aligned in their opposition to this because they dont think that gutting medicaid and making premiums jack up and putting people who rely on coverage for maternity care and for mental health coverage should be gutted around the country. but there are a lot of republicans on the edge on this issue as well. and you have seen them speak out about their concerns about what this would do to their constituents, how i...

We imbrace that. what are they trying to say here? >> there is always the sense that the united states is being taken advantage of or being ripped off. a lot of this speaks to the resentment that trumps base has with the idea that there are kind of professional globalist elites running the united states. but again, the core problem is, what they describe has been true for millennia. whats different in the last 70 years is the united states brought the world together and said look, were still goi...

Turns out to be that, is there anything about this attack or the manner in which it was carried out, that might give us an idea about who was behind it or how big of an operation it was or is? >> so far, not really. other than the fact that this is a fairly classic, i hate it put it this way, but sunni jihadist attack. its kind of nihilistic, has no political purpose other than simply to destroy. it is very much in the isis/al qaeda playbook and reminds us, i suppose, in a sense that this is the...

You cant just have, you know, policy toward one, but as i say for now, the sunni arab, hes talking to a small number also. these are the saudis, the emirates, the egyptian elites, theyre very happy about it. the interesting thing is that even in the speech he gave on israel, he talked about iran as if it was to blame for the rise of al qaeda. the core problem we are faced which has been radical islamic terrorism, to say the words that donald trump would not say, is a sunni problem. its a problem...

Necessarily further endear it. >> as far as organizations go, heritage has been studying this for a long time. were you adequately consulted on this? because lots of people werent. >> they were basically building a bill in the house of representatives to build a coalition. we were publishing on this and pointing out where they think they needed to go. the core problem is that 25 million americans who got nothing out of obamacare in terms of subsidies but huge premiums. they got huge deductibles ...

But late last night, no vote. they dont have the votes with this mcarthur amendment. will they be able to wrangle the votes? because clearly the moderates are uneasy. >> its a tipping point question. historically the house republicans since they have taken over has almost always be able to pass whatever they are trying to pass by moving it far enough to the right since 1995. if you would bet, you would bet on that. but i think they have run into a real problem and the core problem here is three ...

Pre-existing condition could cost you $12,000 a month. unless you can guarantee something, which is why this is so complicated and time consuming to do, you cant necessarily sell this as improving the situation. i dont care if you call it trump care for obamacare. this is where people will be able to measure this accomplishment by their own experience. if they like whats new better than what exists. >> it will be shocking if they could get the votes in the house by moving the bill to the right. ...

Forward out of the senate in the form. the core problem republicans have faced in the beginning. the version of repeal and replace kits hahits harder at t of the older americans. the idea you charge more for people with pre-existing conditions hits older working age adults before medicare. 78% of all americans age 50 to 64 oppose the idea in the abc washington post poll this week. those are core republicans. in kentucky, i was talking to someone recently. seven times people receiving coverage fo...