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Taxes, taxes for the middle class, rich people, across the board. pants to spend trillion dollars for infrastructure, roads, airports. where is this coming from? >> good question, wolf. i dont know the answer to it. youre asking the same question that a lot of republicans are asking, which is where the money coming from? these are the same republicans who were upset at george w. bush because he turned out to be a big spender and added to the deficit. and, by the way, fixing obamacare may cost hi...

What we need to say is, yes, everyone will have the opportunity whether through tax credits -- >> access. >> -- as opposed to everybody will be in the medicaid program. a lot of republicans would like to see the medicaid program shrink and have more people move into private markets but they wont guarantee everybody will be shoved in there with a mandate or something. its a hard question but its a difference between opportunity and access as opposed to mandates and costs. >> its easier to give an...

Have problems. i know they are having it on the house side, for example, with some of their conservatives who are -- >> correct. >> -- already saying briana, look i am not going to vote for the plan that is circulating now because these refundable tax credits are in fact the beginning of a new -- you know, a new entitlement and we are not going to do that. >> gloria, explain that just so that we are very clear on it. the refundable tax credit, meaning this is basically about your right from the ...

Do is im with them and were on the same page and youre not going to lose your benefits and well take care of you in a better way. i think however youre not going to get as much detail because you have republicans balking at the plan thats circulated and he needs a lot of those conservative republicans. if the president steps up to the plate and starts lobbying, im sure hell get of some them back in his exam p. he has to convince them that what theyre voting for will not become a new entitlement ...

Coverage under the law. when you move to a block grant, you remove the right and you make it a possibility subject to whatever funding there is going to be. do you recognize that in doing so you risk the potential of millions of americans who presently enjoy health care coverage through medicaid no longer having that right? >> i think that its important to appreciate that no system that the president has supported or that i have supported would leave anybody without the opportunity to gain cover...

Blocking medicaid. when you move to a block grant, you remove the right and you make it a possibility subject to whatever funding theres going to be. do you recognize that in doing so, you risk the potential of millions of americans who presently enjoy health care coverage through medicaid no longer having that right? >> i think that its important to appreciate that no system that any -- that the president has supported or that i have supported would leave anybody without the opportunity to give...

Unless you are going to prep for going to print for many, these things have to be paid for. that is to say if this is the most important thing, these other things out there must be less important and its a matter of balancing just like any of your viewers do with their household budgets. >> wall street is react in the presidential election. you talk about reconciliation reducing tax reform will happen sooner or later? in summer or fall. >> the first order of business is repealing on replacing ob...

Here in the u.s.? is pepfar worth the massive investment when there are so many security concerns in africa? is pepfar becoming a massive, international entitlement program? pepfar is the program initiated and really pushed by george w. bush to try to eradicate hiv/aids on the continent. what do you make of those questions? >> its good that theyre actually asking questions because so far weve heard about how donald trump feels about mexico and china, but weve heard very little about africa. so i...

Nobody feels worse off than they do now. >> easy to say. tough to do. >> thats a very optimistic orderly transition. its true that a lot of legislators dont like obamacare including some democrats 20 million people that now have health insurance do like it and once you have an entitlement program its hard to unwind it. >> i think they can unwind this one because republicans if nothing else were elected to get rid of obamacare. the key is and why obamacare failed is its not the people that were e...

Member by house member, to do the right thing. >> reporter: for firefighters like ray pfeiffer, who worked for weeks on the pile and are now sick, relief cant come soon enough. >> im one of the lucky ones, even though i have stage four cancer. i come here to help out. for the many that cant. its a shame that we have to come here, as sick as we are, to beg for people that always say, never forget. >> reporter: despite overwhelming bipartisan support in the house and senate, the legislation is bei...