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To go. >> senator santorum and others who support the bill, their argument has been that there is no time. that premiums are going up, when it comes to the affordable care act. that its collapsing. and this is their language, collapsing under its own weight. theres no time. time is running out. how do you respond to that? >> it makes no sense. because we do have problems with the exchanges. but thats only 6% of the people with health insurance get it that way. medicaid is fine. we know medicare ...

>> and he has set off a firestorm with his dig at colin kaepernick. >> wouldnt you love to see one of these nfl owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, get that son of a -- off the field right now? hes fired. >> president trump also blasting senator john mccain tonight for announcing he would vote no on the gops health care bill. ill talk about it with former u.s. senator, rick santorum, one of the architects of the graham-cassidy bill. and barbara boxer, she joins us now. were getti...

What does this mean for americas families? thats whats important. thats why john mccain is so brave to do this. because what hes saying is, when you have a bill that is essentially going to throw a hand grenade into the health care system, which is one-sixth of our economy, millions of people got health care because of the affordable care act. now youre just trying to meet an artificial deadline. what is going to happen to our families is terrible. dont listen to me. listen to the american medic...

Because the governments not forcing them. >> let me ask you, senator santorum, then who are they supposed to believe? the republicans who want this bill? the democrats who dont want this bill? or the non-partisan cbo? >> i think what they have to believe is whats actually before them. look at what the bill does. >> isnt that what the cbo does? >> well, no. i mean, look at what the bill does. the bill takes $1.2 trillion, all the money that is spent on obamacare with the exception of the money th...

Were going to remove the tax that is starting right now, next month, on employers. i dont know if you know this, don, but president obama delayed the implementation of full obamacare. full obamacare was an employer mandate. there was $5 billion in tax bills going out next month to employers, about 90,000 employers in this country, and its probably going to cost $5 billion to $10 billion to comply with all the accounting they have to do. >> i want to get barbara boxer in. i didnt have her respond...

>> can i ask you something? john mccain is calling for -- rick santorum and i were talking about this before you joined us, hes calling for a regular order bipartisan approach. >> yeah. >> is that realistic at this point? >> of course its realistic. this is an artificial deadline. can you imagine bringing up a bill like this, don, and rick, and youve got 90 seconds to two minutes to debate it? this is all baloney. there is no rush. when the democrats did the affordable care act, republicans said...

>> and the way to do that is to get the money closer to the people, allow innovation, quit doing this one size fits all everybody -- >> but with all due respect, senator work your situation be worse, wouldnt you actually pay more if you didnt have the affordable care act, if you werent on that plan? couldnt you be paying more money than the $30,000 youre paying now? >> let me just say this. i believe that we should have pre-existing condition coverage, and the graham-cassidy bill actually is bet...

Or my family. we have addressed that issue. and when you play back senator santorums words, which hes good at presenting -- >> i want him to be able to respond. >> theres no emotion in it. theres no talking about our families. the fact of the matter is, obamacare, or the affordable care act, either way you call it, its being subverted because this president doesnt like it, and he has cut out all the funds to advertise the exchanges. but we still are signing people up. and we can fix it. last poi...

Hes fired. >> president trump also blasting senator john mccain tonight for announcing hed vote no on the gops health care bill. i want to talk about it with cnns senior political commentator and former u.s. senator rick santorum, one of the architects of the graham-cassidy bill. and also barbara boxer. she joins us now. i can see were getting her shot set up there. so senator santorum, im going to start with you. this afternoon john mccain announced he cannot in good conscience, he said, those ...

And lemar. lemar alexander said in a lunch i happened to be in attendance, that there was no bipartisanship going on. patty murray actually wouldnt negotiate any changes to obamacare. there wasnt anything substantive that could be passed in the united states senate. the democratic demand was just give us the money and youre stuck with the way if is right now. thats the bipartisanship that -- >> no. >> im just telling you what lemar alexander said. number two, i love this idea that somehow or ano...