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Kelly: >> the main concern are the intelligence and this is whats imperative from the chief of staff, it can be helpful in making sure that people know that its a very dangerous prospect to continue leaking information. kelly: lets bring in alan smith, politics reporter for business insider. thank you for joining us now. >> thank you for having me on. kelly: i want to go to something that barbara lee tweeting marginalizing john kelly that the president was trying to militarize the white house. w...

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There is, i think, a real imperative to try to fix this. look, obamacare wasnt popular until the republicans gained control of both the white house and the congress and started trying to repeal it. democrats had an awful lot of trouble with this law. there is a lot of political upside for red state democrats who can go in and say, look, i wanted to fix this. i told you i was going to fix this. they ran away from president obama in especially the mid-term years. i dont think that there is necessa...

>> that doesnt sound like a good idea to me. >> even senator rand paul who has been pushing the president to split the legislation into separate repeal and replace bills has warned against pulling the rug out from under the health care system. >> i think its imperative that republicans do a replacement simultaneous. its a huge mistake if they do not vote for replacement on the same day we vote for repeal. >> and senator ben sasse agreed that you cant do what the president is suggesting. >> im st...

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Senator murkowski from just yesterday -- >> i dont have enough information. i dont have enough data in terms of the impact to my state to be able to vote in the affirmative. so im trying to get the information. this is big stuff, and so making sure that we get it right is something that i have said is an imperative. i dont think its asking too much to say, give us the time to fairly and critically analyze these numbers. >> reporter: senator susan collins this morning tweeting this -- saying, i w...

Have an impact on a rural nursing home that relies on medicaid for 70% of the cost of its patients. its hard for me to see the bill passing this week. >> but this morning, the white house is pushing back on one of the criticisms of the bill. heres kellyanne conway, counselor to the president. >> these are not cuts to medicaid, george, this slows the rate for the future and allows governors more flexibility, with medicaid dollars. because theyre closest to the people in need. medicaids imperative...

Talking about changes to medicaid, kellyanne conway was on television today trying to say this is just slowing down the withdrawal from medicaid. it is not a cut. heres how she tried to frame that. >> these are not cuts to medicaid, george. this slows the rate for the future and allows governors more flexibility with medicaid dollars because theyre closest to the people in need. medicaids imperative, its founding was meant to help the poor, the sick, the needy. the disabled children. some elderl...