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Will have a very adverse consequences on their people and on the insurance capability and access and cost for almost every american. so i think theyre going to be against this bill. the really issue is whether republican members of the senate are going to reflect what they know to be the case, this is not a good bill, not good for the american people or theyre going to vote based upon what they think is their political imperative. well see but i dont think this bill is going to go anywhere in th...

Plank and theyre hoping now theyll regain the house and the senate back in the midterms and winning and losing and all that. but forget the politics aspect of it. does the -- if obamacare standing alone, if it had been left alone, do people think it was going to do more good things for the american people or is it in trouble and causing bad things? >> well, actually sympathize with the republicans like lindsey graham who said maybe we should let the string run out a little more here and see how ...

Bannon say that he isnt going anywhere. i bring in jonathan swann for political co-reporter, based on your the recording and what youre hearing, do you think they can work it out? >> there will be some give and take there. jared kushner has been unhappy with the way the white house has been performing and performing is the right word. when he tucson his colleagues, he discusses the white house in terms that you might describe as silicon valley start-up. he says we need to keep making changes. it...

>> democrats are raring to go. theres a difference between the democrats up for re-election this year versus the last couple of years since the affordable care act was passed. keep the affordable care act. no one is acknowledging that changes dont need to be made but key the law in place. were not seeing democrats start to say, oh, im not sure, should we repeal it. everyone is in lockstep to keep it in place and then start another conversation about making changes. you cant have a conversation a...

Committee has been pushing for. so, for example, they would like medicaid expansion to go away at the end of this here, go away altogether, not wait until 2020. they want all obamacare taxes to be repealed right away. they also want work requirements for able-bodied adults on medicaid. i know thats a lot of wonk-ish talk but this goes to show the range of changes they have been pushing for. >> also important, if you want to talk about the politics at play, they make these changes, it likely cant...

Getting to 216, your numbers are a little weird here because we have a few members gone, house members in the cabinet now. but thats not really the group that you need to worry about. the group you need to worry about is the house freedom caucus. its not this bigger conservative group, the study committee. you have to worry about the smaller, sizable house freedom caucus, hard core conservative group. it looks right now theyre still solidly no, at least everyone we talk to is no on this. those a...

>> all right. joining me right now, cnn national politics reporter m.j. lee has been following this health care bill from the beginning to wherever it stands right now. cnn congressional correspondent sunlen serfaty on capitol hill, and tom low bianco joining us as well. you cant call the vote until the last vote is cast, of course. but what are republican leaders saying about this? then well get to what the president is saying now. >> the fluidity reflects the moment on capitol hill right now. ...

Moves and the fluidity of all this really does highlight how frantic things are right now for the leadership to find something that they can pass, to make changes that can be made amenable to conservatives and moderates. >> as youre talking about republican leaders and changes they can make, house speaker paul ryan is speaking right now at a national review event. lets listen to him for a second. >> -- that we can make changes that improve the bill, refine the bill. the big pieces are all there....

Amanda, i want to get m.j. lee, a great reporter, on healthcare. when he was meeting with a group of conservative leaders he said everyone is on board, were making changes, she talked to the freedom caucus, a smaller group of conservatives. the announcement that all the rnc are for it doesnt change our group at all. what does it mean for the bill and getting it to the goal line. >> paul ryan is putting pressure to get it there. and you dont know how every member will vote until you get there. i ...

Plans to forge ahead with his original strategy with no intent of making changes, well get details on speaker ryan. we have a mega panel standing by, but lets begin with senior white house correspondent jim acosta, tell me what do you anticipate sean spicer will say because if speaker ryan isnt budging and sean spicer has said were open to ideas, what does he say post cbo score today. >> reporter: i think you are going to hear much of what we heard yesterday from nick mull vae -- mulvaney. they ...