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Democrats are bemoaning the coverage numbers. the coverage numbers have always boon wildly long wrok. as recently as two years ago they said there wrb 24 million people in the obamacare exchange, now the number business 10 million. as of this week, the cbo report, in the base line assumption they were comparing to, they have 15 million in obamacare for this year when we know its 10. their whole meth dog is wildly wrong. republicans are saying ignore those numbers. >> leland: quoted all sorts of ...

For a real conservative, its disheartening to me we arent doing more to lower costs. but it says to me too many people in the swamp still havent been drained and still controlling and dictating health care when you boil it down. there needs to be a bigger discussion. >> the reason that house republicans who voted for this bill cannot guarantee the premiums of people with preexisting conditions will not rise is because there is no guarantee. and for many of them they will, is that not true? >> i ...

Right there is thats all she wants. she wants for the children of syria to play and go to school. shes pleading for help. what do you say to her, congressman? >> i think what shes asking for is something that all children should enjoy, and i think that our intervention in syria has prolonged the civil war, and it is not helping there. president trump campaigned on a more restrained fiscal -- or im sorry, a more restrained foreign policy, and i hope thats what we see, and you know, we havent crea...

10% are not. >> 90% does get you there. >> thats exactly right. 95% does. thats why i say were close, because we are. heres the point im making here. the democrats arent for repealing obamacare. we are. we work with democrats all the time. look, murray and i did a budget agreement. we have long histories of working with democrats. but i dont think it is a stretch of the mind to suggest that the democrats disagree with us on repealing obamacare. theyre not going to help us repeal obamacare. thats...

We began that pass-back process we talked about internally. director mulvaney has had several conversations. to your question, thats part of the process. we need to release a budget first for what our priorities are for the coming fiscal year and make sure we do what we can going forward. this goes hand in hand with that. >> finish out the current fiscal -- >> i understand that. its fiscal 2017. i think our budget lays out where we want to go in fy18. once we have a handle on fy18, we can start ...

Know, the democrats really let him have it at the d.d.n.c. and he ended up losing big time. what do you see this food fight as? >> actually i was a national staff for bernie sanders you. i actually worked for the campaign as an independent fiscal. pretty much this is like the dallas cowboys showing up to the super bowl you lost. thats the bottom line. when you fumble the ball for the last 8 years and on day one say we are ready to play it looks foolish. instead of the democrats focusing on what ...

This conversation especially on taxation. >> dana, you want to jump in? >> its important to be working towards bipartisan policy and not obstruction. that would be nice. i mean, look, one of the democrats of if youre a democrat of donald trump not being as rigid on conservative policies across the board whether its social or more importantly in this instant fiscal is use it, right. i mean, democrats never could have gotten this 35% tax done with barack obama in the white house because republican...

The same way social security and medicare are. now they have odds of repealing. through reconciliation they have a chance to make it go away in real ways, maybe not all of it but a lot of it. third, the kind of fundamental choice on fiscal, they will through reconciliation have the ability to pursue a major tax cut that will change the options going forward for the federal government. this is a big turning point and a moment when the democrats had the opportunity to kind of consolidate a lot of ...

On this. when you meet regular people, family members, when i talk to people, i get a sense that things are not as good as some of the rosier descriptions even given by the president today. >> absolutely, chris. the recovery to the extent there has been a recovery for most people, seems to be petering out. this is the first time weve had two months with such lousy jobs number in over a year, but the thing that really worries me is you also have a labor participation rate. that is the percentage ...

To make either one of those choices because our debt levels ran up a great deal in this cycle and importantly next 10-20 years, debt levels will rise because of baby boomers that are aging and soaking up more entitlements and fiscal outlook deteriorates and that constrains the government in terms of fiscal. and the tax or spending side. and if it wants to do something to give the economy a jolt in the down turn. >> it is covering so many different topics. and one of the things and questions that...