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Divided about what to do with the repeal to feel affordable care act. that topic that senator cotton was really berated for at that town hall event that almost did not happen. last night, two committees in the house were up all night long trying to get a versionover the repeal of the affordable care act passed. house republicans are just fighting tooth and nail to pass it in the house, to try to get it into the senate, to try to make it sthoen that the senate will get on board but you know who o...

So there isnt enough money in the aca today as its structured even with its fees and taxes to support the population that needs to be served? >> so that says to me, what youre saying there is obamacare functionally is dead because financially its not sustainable? >> it is in a death spiral. >> the ceo of aetna on february 15 saying obamacare was in a death spiral. that was welcome news to republicans who want to kill obamacare and who jumped on the death spiral talking point. >> the ceo of aetna...

Obamacare, a discussion that will happen tonight at the governors ball. take a listen. >> dont kill obamacare. improve it. >> without the coverage for pre-existing conditions, i will die. >> i am angry constituent. you work for us! [cheers and applause ] >> senator tom cotton talked to chuck todd on "meet the press" about this very issue. and it happened this morning. >> what we saw over this past week, a lot of anxiety and stress that a lot of americans feel about health care. we promised to fi...

Obamacare has four systems and call them platinum silver gold. whatever. its more like rust, iron and lead. but if you had the states do the systems and refundable tax credits could only be used by health insurance, you would have individual markets and a wide variety of products, and that leads the competition which would drive down and increase the overall convenience and quality. >> so it sounds like you are for adjustments and our latest "wall street journal" poll -- well put that up, senato...

Into a pool and charged higher premiums because of the various health care issues that we have. >> reporter: they say the aim is to lower costs by eliminating some taxes and creating more competition but even john boehner was skeptical of republicans ability to replace the law. >> they will fix obamacare. i shouldnt call it repeal and replace. thats not what is going to happen. they will fix the flaws. >> reporter: and pressure is mounting. republican lawmakers bombarded by angry constituents. m...

The president is going to want to do it a lot more quickly and congress is going to get it done. but look, obamacare has been several elections run on obamacare and it resulted in partially for donald trump to becoming elected. now there is going to be -- they are talking about a repeal of obamacare. thats very difficult for people who like obamacare and, particularly, people, as you saw in your piece earlier, who are in the middle of treatment or chronic treatment. thats very scary for people. ...

>> bloomberg saying that governors were told this in a presentation yesterday, quote, policies supported by republican congressional leaders to repeal and replace obamacare could lead individuals to lose their health coverage. so these leaders from their states, these governors understanding the balance as they gather tonight and some of them have meetings with president trump here, they understand this difference of national politics versus local and how are they going to put that together and ...

But this draconian rhetoric to suggest millions of people will be thrown out on the streets tomorrow is simply not accurate. in fact its really not fair. >> really quick, jonathan, quick. >> so people like rand paul are beginning to understand and some other senators you cant do this repeal and delay. it doesnt work. if you repeal it, youve got to replace it with something and soon or the whole thing does unravel and there will be peep thrown under the bus. >> guys, i have to let that be the las...

This weekend with reince priebus the incoming chief of staff and congressman nunez and at 2 and 10 you can find fox news sunday. i never miss it. >> bill: well never take a day off work. the news doesnt stop. with regard to the report that was leaked that theyve got some sort of evidence that indicates that russian officials were celebrating after the election, if there is not more than that, then you have to ask yourself what does that prove anyway? and if they have a lot more cards that theyll...

Him to do was to make sure that before he commits to certain courses of action, hes really dug in and thought through how various issues play themselves out. ill use an obvious example where we have a difference, but it will be interesting to see what happens in the coming year. and thats the affordable care act. obviously this has been the holy grail for republicans over the last six or seven years, was we have to kill obamacare. now, that has been taken as an article of fate. but this is terri...