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Seeing at another record at this moment. triple digits as we speak. it is climbing towards 25,000 now in anticipation, in part, of this tax plan getting done. so there is repercussions for the stock market, investments in this country but politically. what would the impact of that be if there is a major stumble in the next couple of days and next week? >> i think it depends how big the stumble is. if they have to put it off from this monday or tuesday or next monday or tuesday i dont think that ...

Sick to buy it. you can make changes and nobody wants to be responsible for making the changes. obamacare made a bunch of changes. >> its hard to make the case for people who were disrupted by obamacare to say they dont trust any politicians. they are going to disrupt my life again. dont you trust your governor and legislature. they are close to you. not in far away washington. >> this al zaexander murray arrangement is an interesting place to look. if it doesnt pass and it doesnt look like its ...

Money. >> jonathan, what do you think of that defense? youve covered a lot of stories where political explanations shift. hes saying the texting, e-mailing, voice mail that we played at the top of the beat were all jokes. i dont know the voice mail didnt have a lot of jokey format to me. >> you mean to tell me that on a story this big, lets just say this fake story was true. a story where youre in contact with the white house, where the president is saying weve got to get this story out immediat...

Lot more over the next 24 hours. >> ken, this is probably not what you envisioned the obamacare repeal would look like. what do you make of the process and where its going? >> its interesting, you hear the staff comment of whoever named this skinny repeal ought to be kicked in the face because it doesnt trick people enough into thinking this is real repeal. these folks have campaigned for years. theyve made half careers, whole careers for some of them, out of campaigning against obamacare. here ...

Insurance super fund. its not putting $45 billion -- >> neil: what happened to that, senator? i thought that was the motion put in place? >> the republican leadership plan? >> neil: yeah. >> that is still probably what theyll go back to. nobody has told us. are we going to the clean repeal or going to the giant -- >> neil: doesnt sound like theyre going back to a clean repeal. barring that and that is something that passed with all but one republican vote, now at least three republicans are oppo...

My role is to bring the grassroots to congress and let them hear what the american people are saying. ainsley: if it doesnt pass who do republicans blame? do they blame the president or lawmakers in congress? >> its going to pass. thats what i think. im optimistic because there is a recognition that people are hurting across this country with premiums doubling. deductibles so high. insurers pulling out of the marketplaces. 2018, 44% of the counties with one insurer. ainsley: not everyone is conf...

The house and senate republican lawmakers who want to repeal obamacare to have said they voted to try to do it. but the second is that mitch mcconnell wants to get on to tax reform. if you make an effort to move this forward and it stalls, you can say, look, weve tried, were here to govern and need to move on. either way, it preserves a path forward for him. >> its important for republican lawmakers they are able to take a vote. this is something theyve been talking about for years. the idea tha...

Ferment in the presidential mind and he said its gone on long enough? it doesnt pass the laugh test. given that, there is an ongoing investigation that he had to know he was going to disrupt with this. >> how big a problem -- i anticipate this being a huge problem with washington. its going to tie up everything. it just added -- we already had raging fires in this town. now weve got gasoline poured on them. >> exactly. congress has to sort out whether this is its problem, that is, the investigat...

You heard him say they let him go to russia to give that speech. theres no record of him asking for permission in advance. i would make this point. the white house is saying we trusted the obama administration on that security clearance and we were fined to make him the national security adviser but we didnt trust the president when he sat down two days after the skplex said you might have a problem with this man. theres a fundamental inconsistency. i would just say its apples and oranges, but i...

Pulled, these were the no votes we mad had on the record. this deal today, its with the freedom caucus. that means at least 80%, maybe more of the freedom caucus is now onboard, so a lot of these nos now go away, but, again, you still had all these other nos. theres more than just the freedom caucus on the republican side that had reservations with this. you had moderates. so, look, if you please the freedom caucus by moving to the right, does that put more moderates at risk? remember, something...