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Where -- >> the house likes the mandate aspect and wants to add it to their own bill which is more likely to get the reconciliation bill. >> right. and if they can get a senate bill they reconcile it with the house through negotiations. look, i dont think there is -- i dont think failure is an option here is how they are looking at it. i think theres so much downside. this has been the problem with how the tax bill has been argued and how it has come together. a lot of conservatives dont like it...

>> of course they can. of course they can, yeah, thats the point. obamacares fundamental problem, other than the fact that it was not well conceived and the purpose of it was to create a single payer system when it failed, it created an insurance product that a lot of americans didnt need because it had so many coverages that were not necessary and were expensive, so you ended up with the high-priced insurance policies which a lot of people didnt need. you can tailor better insurance policies to...

And he was senate chairman of the senate budget committee. you are the perfect person to speak to about this. let me put up for our viewers the headlines from what we know about the senate plan. it repeals obamacares individual mandate, which was the least popular component and boosts the child tax credit to $2,000 per child, and lowers several middle income tax rates and the corporate tax rate is reduced to 20%. do you like this plan? >> well, i like the corporate side. i think the individual s...

Democrats are beating you over the head with, look at virginia, they like their health care and obamacare and they failed miserably trying to roll back obamacare. messing with the individual mandate, premiums go up and it affects a lot of people who are trump supporters. theres a lot of risky politics involved here. bottom line, this is political expedientcy. >> for republicans, this is political. its trying to attach an obamacare key provision, and it was a conservative -- >> the individual man...

Dont want the bicycle but will be hit with the fine anyway. when 13 million is not going to be covered, thats not an accurate number. let me finish. those 13 million people did not want to buy the obama health care package. they may go out when they dont have to buy that package any longer because they wont be fined any longer and buy something more tailored to their needs. most of those people are young and dont feel they need the type of massive coverage obamacare covered and need a catastroph...

Not to be able to answer, thats at the top of the list. i think its indicative frankly the administration has done little to nothing to protect us from the next russian intervention because they wont admit the first took place, and this is the broader problem. we cant both fashion a response and cant develop the national consensus of foreign interference when we have a commander-in-chief when he wont acknowledge what the intelligence agencies have been telling him. >> thank you for your take. >>...

Income taxpayers, and boost the taxpayer credit from $1650 to $2,000, a priority for the presidents daughter, ivanka. senator john mccain who cast a dramatic vote killing the republicans last effort to kill and replace obamacare signaling he is leaning towards supporting the bill, but murkowski and susan collins indicated that they are not sold on the idea, collins saying i personally think it complicates tax reform. house speaker, paul ryan, signaling the senate must show their bill can pass be...

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General, jeff sessions, as a possib possible write-in replacement. we have it all covered. our coverage begins with suzanne malveaux live on capitol hill. >> reporter: this was a bombshell announcement. senate republicans saying they are trying to accomplish tax cuts as well as health care in the same bill. initially they resisted this and did not want to get into a toxic battle over health care again and thought it would redale the process and now desperate to get something done before christma...