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Steve: will they still be sophomores? heather: good question. maybe second year. ainsley: senior is. brian: lets break down it words soph doesnt work. and more. steve: could be second year, third year. fourth year. brian: go to yale. forget it go to a community school. stay out of yale. steve: i gold if i had the opportunity. brian: i would go. not until they change it back to freshman. ainsley: you said thats why you didnt go. brian: correct because i had the sense they wouldnt be politically c...

Diagnosed with breast cancer. shes now cancer flree, and wee happy about that. >> the legislation requires health insurance. >> people with preexisting conditions are still covered however, if the mandate is removed, how will insurance companies be able to afford to pay for people with preexisting conditions like me? >> wonderful news that youre now cured. we used to celebrate that in our medical office when folks would get that wonderful news that that had happened. the fact of the matter is th...

Infrastructure, he is saying for years an years we have built infrastructure like this and doesnt work well and so what we are doing now is taking out of the discretionary budget and move it into the larger infrastructure budget plan this summer. >> the block grant includes meals on wheels, and in texas, one says they will no longer be providing it so what do you say to the americans will ultimately will be losing out. >> i think you know that meals on wheels is not a federal program. many state...

Programs within the federal government. clearly there has got to be some opportunity there for a combination of savings. >> i think because its too hard to kind of get you to pinpoint this right here, but i would love for you to come back with than example of an after-school program that doesnt work. >> happy to. >> and explain that to us. i mean that in all honesty because i think i understand what youre saying but i think there are probably some cuts here on programs that people are going to m...

>> david gergen, do you agree with that? >> i think theres a very strong argument when you get beyond the cbo, what works and doesnt work. what we know is there are other groups who have said there are going to be millions of people thrown off. standard and po standard & poors has done. that the moderate democrats are going to score more points than the republicans r how care. how can you justify lowering taxes on the rich and cutting back on medicaid and there are consequences for that. how do ...

Possible to get care essentially for free in most cases. so i think that its interesting, you saw this friend of donald trumps who publishes newsmax, this conservative publication who wrote "this bill is suicide, you cant do this, you need to build something around medicaid because medicaid is the part of this that works." its amazing, you have laura ingram, breitbart and newsmax defending medicaid against the sort of ayn randian attacks of paul ryan. >> theres a certain conservative logic to me...

Sort of ayn randian attacks of paul ryan. >> theres a certain conservative logic to medicare. people on the left like to talk about medicare for all. >> ross douthat wrote about medicaid for all that you dont want the government to become the insurer for everyone but you make it the backstop so that the first line of defense is that you get insurance through work or you acquire it privately but if that doesnt work for you, you can go on medicaid, its stripped down, relatively inexpensive but its...

Thats the bottom line. >> david gergen, do you agree with that? >> i think theres a very strong argument when you get beyond the cbo, what works and doesnt work. what we know is there are other groups who have said there are going to be millions of people thrown off. standard & poors has done. that the moderate democrats are going to score more points than the more republicans are. how can you justify lowering taxes on the rich and cutting back on medicaid and there are consequences for that. fo...

Sense in your mind. if you force younger healthy people to buy insurance, youll force more money into the pool to pay for the older sicker person. the problem is that doesnt work. it doesnt work in practice. its not working now. its in a death spiral. heres our a etch pro. we think the smarter way to go is to open up choice and competition, let more plans be offered, people buy what they want and thats why we are big believers in state based risk pools. by having federal financing to help states...

We will undoubtedly be getting lots of questions on the cbo report on the republican plan to replace obamacare. lots of myths out there about this, alley velshi has become our resident myth buster. we bring him in to drill down on the numbers and separate fact and fiction. >> i like the conversation you had with the republican congressman from florida. he was hospital about the fact he doesnt believe health care is a right. thats a philosophical difference. either you believe it is a right and y...