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Medicaid, once the mandate is gone you will give up your free medicaid and replace it with nothing. the cbo is full of errors -- not errors but bad assumptions, and thats the only way you can get to the bad numbers, and its not damage control but its laying out what we thought would happen, the cbo doesnt do a very good job at counting coverage. >> reporter: unraveling that just a little bit, drops in medicaid coverage are definitely a factor in this estimate, but the estimate also suggested tha...

Secretary tom price were dispatched to capitol hill today to meet with really kind of palpably uneasy senate republicans. they recognize the top line numbers are bad. they need votes to move this process forward. but is the process that even the most optimistic republican leaders will tell you has a lot of work to go. republican leaders are now scrambling to condatain the fallout from a damaging congressional budget office report. >> given the freedom to make a decision that is consistent with y...

>> its sunny and 75 degrees. the report is exactly what we expected to see. i was surprised to hear you use the word damage control so many times in that previous report. this is exactly what we thought the c.b.o. would come forward with. theyre terrible at counting coverage. >> budget head mick mulvaney, mocking the new congressional budget office report that finds as many as 24 million more americans could lose their health insurance under the gop health care plan. here with the latest on that...

President yet at all and were not scheduled to hear from him at all today. he could always change that at this point. but his -- the director of the omb, the office of management and business, mick mulvaney was out on cnns "new day" trying to explain why that cbo number is not right. lets listen. >> ill say that again. the cbo is assuming if you get medicaid, once the mandate is gone youll give up your free medicaid and replace it with nothing. the cbo report is full of errors, not errors,ust b...

Medicaid and replace it with nothing. the cbo report is full of errors. not errors. just bad assumptions like that. its the only way you can get to these bizarre numbers. i dont think its damage control as much as laying out to people what we thought would happen. the cbo doesnt do a very good job at counting coverage. >> that is something we hear a lot from whoever is in the white house. they believe the cbo is not favorable to them. we heard it back in the clinton administration during the hea...

Lets begin with the unfolding drama over the republican plan to replace obamacare. our congressional correspondent phil mattingly has the latest. phil, republicans are deeply divided and they are struggling. >> reporter: yeah, its no secret that these divisions existed but the degree to which theyve spilled out into the open today in the wake of that damaging cbo report making very clear the problem right now just ensuring they have the votes to move this forward in the house, let alone actually...

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