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Kushner may speak with the Intelligence Senate Committee about possible ties to Trump Campaign officials. John roberts is live at the white house with the very latest on this developing story. Hi, john. Eric, good morning. The white house hoped this was going to be a start to a new week. Theyre trying to figure out a way forward if there is one on healthcare reform and tax reform. The president has said that he wanted to do healthcare reform first because they would free up money that he could a...

Group in yemen killing a former about making sure people dont fall through the cracks. Guantanamo detainee, why was he the last admission with back on the battlefield . Obamacare focused on vacation or it is all happening now. The underserved were part of the equation. What is the safety net to ensure jenna we begin this hour that people do not fall through with what is likely to come up the cracks beyond taxes and the at the briefing, House Republican leaders finally taking a big step toward un...

Great to have you here. we heard this term implode, explode, you two disagree. i want to start there. michael, why do you believe that is the case with obamacare, that the case is exploding? >> insurers have been leaving the market in droves. theres 1,000 counties across the country where theres one insurer in the exchange. in east tennessee, theyre already facing that situation. 43,000 residents in east tennessee that have no exchange options after december because the last carrier has left. th...

Know what anything cost. like what it cost to go to the doctor for a cold or a flu or a broken arm versus a broken leg. will that ever be fixed by anything? michael, you first and then larry. >> theres a series of experiments that employers have done that shows when consumers are spending their own money, they demand price information and prices fall. thats the way that congress needs to repeal and replace obamacare by giving consumers control of the money, the money that their employers spend o...

Employer plans. so this whole attitude that move along, nothing to see here is -- >> jenna: an interesting point. lets ask larry about it. if its happening in tennessee, larry, that means it could happen anywhere else, right? one has to wonder, if it was happening in areas like washington d.c. or the state of new york where the media is based, if there would be a little bit of a different urgency around this. but because its happening in a few key areas in the country, that maybe we think not to...

Have passed medicaid expansion to take an awfully difficult vote. essentially what it does is it cuts medicare and cuts medicaid expansion and effect in 2020, and it caps medicaid going forward. that inflicts a lot of state issues and i think moderate senators are going to find it very, very difficult to swallow. >> jon: medicaid, the idea as i understand it that the republicans are proposing, larry, is that you take medicaid and you give that money and block grants to the states eventually, not...

This bill falls short. it drives costs up by decreasing deductibles -- increasing deductibles and eliminating some of the tax credits, and that individual mandate while it is about as possible as vegetables are to my kids, its one of the things that keeps premiums low. this is going to see coverage loss from medicaid, and it is going to drive millions of americans away from the market for just affordability concerns. >> jon: larry come he said it could destabilize the insurance market. why? >> a...

Discussion, larry levitz, senior vice president for special initiatives at the kaiser family foundation and senior advisor to the president of the foundation, amy, former acting admitted trader for the centers for medicare and medicaid services under president obama and the president of the foundation for research on equal opportunity, author of "transcending obamacare: how medicaid feels the poor." thank you for being here. wanted to start with you, andy, some republicans have essentially said ...

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