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Do you like tax credits that enable low and middle income folks to be able to afford insurance? they say yes. it turns out the actual elements are quite popular with america and theyre at a loss of what to do because taking down obamacare would take down health care for more than 20 million americans and decrease the integrity of insurance policies for the rest of america because for a lot of what made other insurance policies better than they were. getting rid of lifetime limits for example so ...

Treasury. >> at the end of 8 years ill come back and ill say you did a good job. otherwise if they did a bad job ill say your fired. >> now before trump left that press conference he did say that none of his campaign associates had been in touch with russian officials during the election but he would not say whether he would keep the punishing sanctions on moscow as many republicans have called on him to do. his view on russia and other matters were coming into sharper view again today as confir...

Governments are vulnerable, working families are vulnerable, and it is all because of the cost. we have to decrease barriers to access, increase competition, reduced prices. if we do not do that, the whole thing is going to collapse. that is why the republicans have to get started on repeal. this thing is on a death spiral right now, and it is going to cost people if we do not get the repeal process going. >> jon: list, paraphrasing your earlier point, democrats are pointing fingers at republica...

Effects firsthand. governors like john kasich in ohio and rick snyder and michigan both republicans are saying that this law has been a success and that congress needs to tread lightly if they are going to try to repeal this. >> jon: it is also true the increased medicare and medicaid enrollments are bleached proving to be a financial problem for many states. >> first of all, it is true and ridiculous, and a republican is out there talking about taking healthcare away from vulnerable populations...

Viewers, it is a choice to come out in public to let your opinion be known, and we appreciate that. we look forward to having you back. thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. >> jon: then there is the weather in california which is usually nice. any minute now, the nomination for jeff sessions hearing will resume and we will take you back to that. plus, one thing the president likely will touch on tonight is obamacare. why republicans say undoing that law is a top priority of theirs, the...

Bodes going to set up the process to repeal obamacare. i think what is important to understand here is there can be a stable period. it could be a long period so nobody who currently has health insurance loses it immediately. they are going to have to do a series of complicated things to repeal it then replace it with a series of policies that republicans have been pushing for many years, so i think it is a little bit of a false choice to say that we have to do it all in one day or not do it at ...

Build up the affordable care act. i am not saying they should show it to democrats, im saying they should show it to the american public because it is not just democrats who are relying on obamacare, its a heck of a lot of republicans and tropical voters, and in the home state of kentucky, there are 6,000 people who have gotten healthcare coverage under obamacare, and look, let me address a couple falsehoods here. >> jon: very quickly, we are getting back to the hearing. >> the cost of healthcar...

>> it will be difficult. health care is expensive for everyone. obamacare has provisions that are intertwined, aimed at reducing the costs of health care in general. but republicans want to change the plans and give tax credits. but it remains to be seen how generous they make the new plan. >> the approach of repeal first, replace later, could bleed the health care system that all of us depend on. quoting him. what would happen to the economy if republicans do repeal obamacare without a plan to ...

Parenthood. president obama says if republicans have a better plan, hes for repealing and replacing it. >> it is true, theoretically, all of the progress can be undone and suddenly 20 million people are or more tonight have health insurance. but as i think republicans now are recognizing, that may not be what the american people, including everyone trump voters, are looking for. and my hope is that the president-elect, members of congress from both parties, look at where have we objectively made...

Obamacare were repealed, 3 million could lose jobs. state and local governments can lose billions in taxes. health care is an important engine in our country. >> what youre underscoring, its not just the people on the plan. but a lot of people who would -- who are either directly or indirectly involved in the plan? >> yeah. a lot of people think that obama care is only for people on the exchanges or people who are getting coverage through medicate expansion. a lot of people dont realize it has m...