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Satisfied with it as is or is there tinkering you would do with obamacare? >> any initiative, social security, medicare, medicaid, you always come back and say, in the implementation, what can you learn from, what can you do? american people have to know in overturning the affordable care act, the republicans will do very serious damage to medicare, very serious to medicare. exactly simultaneous with the ryan budget which would remove -- remove the guarantee to medicare. so the affordable care a...

That was what i intended to do. i think i would ensure that a full examination was made of any and all applicable applause or other policies. but then we would follow those and implement. >> you mentioned in your statement about the invasion by russia of crimea. does russia have in your view a legal claim to crimea? >> no, sir. that was a taking of territory that was not theirs. >> do you agree that russia has not complied with the minsk agreement with regard to ukraine? >> the process for imple...

Started talking instead of repeal and replace, which i thought was impossible before the implementation, and once implemented the strategy is what we had to do was first repair the damage and transition to something that works, and theres a lot of damage to be repaired to obamacare in wisconsin, and individuals on the individual market have seen their premiums double and triple and out of pocket maximums doubled and tripled, and subsidiz subsidized -- >> we talk about it, but -- you are dealing ...

What youre going to do next so were going to pass it to willie to ask you. >> willie. >> hi, valerie, good to see you this morning. ill ask you about what youre going to do next but i want to ask you about obama care. you will argue thats the biggest part of the presidents legacy over the last four years passage and implementation of affordable care act. all the talk about repealing the law and replacing it with something different, what has president obama said to donald trump about the benefit...

Of us are wondering, where is the opportunity from the g.o.p. to be for active and aggressive with those replacement plans. >> bret: do you think this message is going to resonate and president obamas farewell address in chicago tomorrow? >> i think so. he met with democrats up on the hill. look, lets be clear. if democrats could have a fix this, they have it all these years. they are so happy to get rid of it. they think the republicans are going to not be able to fix it and they will blame the...

Of us are wondering, where is the opportunity from the g.o.p. to be for active and aggressive with those replacement plans. >> bret: do you think this message is going to resonate and president obamas farewell address in chicago tomorrow? >> i think so. he met with democrats up on the hill. look, lets be clear. if democrats could have a fix this, they have it all these years. they are so happy to get rid of it. they think the republicans are going to not be able to fix it and they will blame the...

>> the big problem that conservative republicans and the freedom caucus are concerned about are the billions of dollars in tax revenues. if you repeal, you lose the money that finances a lot of this and theyre using that money already so this is going to be a big problem and they dont want to blow a hole in the budget deficit. they can deplay the implementation dates and theyve got a real problem. >> i want to underscore, something, it the phase in, it took three years, but its seeing the plan i...

And weve taken it really seriously and i make no apologies for it. >> despite the presidents confidence, the clean power plan has not gone into effect. more than two dozen states sued to stop it. the supreme court ordered the implementation delayed until the appeals play themselves out. and now, president-elect trump has vowed to rescind it. but what will he do with obamas signature climate achievement, the paris agreement? in december of 2015, in the city of light, 196 nations agreed by consens...

Deals, and i think competition is the biggest thing hes going to bring to the table. >> its interesting why im glad we led this segment also with the data download which shows, look, many of his constituents are not going to accept just a repeal. they want the replacement. >> the big problem that conservative republicans and the freedom caucus are concerned about are the billions of dollars in tax revenues. if you repeal, you lose the money that finances a lot of this and theyre using that money...

Take the presidency. and you talk about the salience of understanding how deep this issue is, do it right, but remember where he spent some time where hillary clinton didnt, and that was the rust belt. he has not just the understanding of the depth and the seriousness for individuals, but also for businesses in this country. hes got to get it right for them as well. >> kennedy talks about a lag, and my big worry here is you cant avoid a leg. remember when obamacare was finally passed, it took so...