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There were mistakes made. we sold it as cost savings and we should have sold it as a moral imperative. what you want to do when you roll something out and announce a big policy have a band of people and a team of people with you. and even in the darkest days of selling obamacare in the early days, democrats were pretty united and supporting it. youre also seeing a united front from democrats now in opposing this replacement. so you want those people who are your friends to be out there vocalizin...

Increasingly every time we see what happened on saturday morning, a need, an imperative to be the ballast in the ship. they feel like they need to be the people keeping the ship on track even as they are trying get it done. they could see this as an opportunity. it is clearly jousts comfort zone for a lot of these republicans. now i think it is closer to their comfort zone a thing like health care. i think they feel like, we get together all these conservative ideas that weve been focused on for...

So he is not accustomed of this concept of reporting to someone. someone dress go hill down or someone telling him, thats not the right way to do things. im not sure where thats going to come from. if hes never encountered it before and the white house isnt built for that. >> casey hunt, for a young person, youre a veteran reporter down there. a two-part question. number one, chuck schumer is clearly trying to get whatever this is, trump care. they want the president to own it. they figure obama...

Professional, no. because we go through imper cal data. we dont make up numbers. we dont use fantasy to create policy especially when we are tasked to go out, hunt, kill or capture terrorist suspects. we use data. thats what the intelligence community is for. they are not from these seven nations. so, by saying this is a national security imperative is smoke in mirrors. >> malcolm, in a word, no. thank you so much. we are going to take a break. next, white house releasing a statement telling job...

About health care. and guess what? now that theyre running the place theyre still not agreeing about what to do about it. >> david, listen to this, this is 2009, 2010 when obamacare was on the table and republicans had this to say about the process that was unfolding. >> theyre saying, ignore the wishes of the american people. we know more about this than you do. and were going to jamb it down your throats. >> my colleagues in congress are going to continue on their march to shove this governmen...

Russian ambassador and the fact that the republican chairs at each of those intelligence committees did join in a white house effort to knockdown some of this earlier reporting raising questions about their impartiality or whether theyve ruch ru reached a conclusion already. republicans are digging in the line understanding that is a major escalation of a threat to the trump administration. >> how imperative is it to clear this up for the administration to move forward and actually address polic...

Reconstituted. we are not talking about the folks who get their coverage through their employer. that is 175 million individuals and that market is relatively stable although being challenged because of the affordable care act. we are not talking about medicare. thats not part of the conversation. we are talking about the individual and small group market. there are about 4 million individuals will gain coverage through the affordable care act that didnt have it before. the problem is weve turne...

Only getting worse. we believe its imperative to fix it. >> bret: when the governors came in and you are talking about possibly block granting on medicaid, didnt they come in and say maybe this isnt going to work? didnt it throw a wrench in the plan? >> i had wonderful meetings with governors across the nation. what i heard was if you give our state, if you give me the opportunity, the governor, to be able to fashion their program and the way that best meets the citizens of their state, then we ...

Community knows who the sort of des of that network are and i would like to believe that the -- those components, the russians are probably not going to use them again. i would say theyre probably burned. but as you said, chris, the goal of exposing them is not necessarily to build a case. youre not necessarily going to put this in the light of day in a courtroom so its a terribly different silo. >> and that seems to be part of the problem here, right? because at some level there are these twin ...

Change them in a way that will make it work. >> bret: you mentioned the coverage. you believe it will ensure more people. will the costs go down and how they go down? >> they have to go down if you allow the individual and small-group market market to be reconstituted. we are not talking about the folks who get their coverage through their employer. that is 175 million individuals and that market is relatively stable although being challenged because of the affordable care act. we are not talkin...