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Business, but being worried about personal business. >> maryland attorney general says they will seek trumps personal tax returns as part of this suit. press secretary sean spicer says the white house will move to have that suit dismissed. todays also a critical day in the fight to repeal and replace obamacare. senate republicans meeting behind closed doors to learn key, new details of their health care plan. theyll offer feedback to staffers who are working to triangulate between conservative...

How are you going to ensure that, in fact, the goal of americans seeing a lower tax rate actually takes place? i know that after this the president put out his white paper. we are going to see the mark-ups in house and ways means. when you take away all of the deductions that may very well make ones rate go up. how are you producing lower tax for the middle-class? >> its take get away many deductions and credits, many are special interest provision that a lot of hard working folks and east dalla...

Care. trump has talked a lot about the high coast of prescription drugs. i skuspect its another high, hes not serious about it. if republicans are serious, lets work together. thats one way to save billions of dollars for americans in terms of health care costs. >> when you heard the president say nobody knew how tough this would be, nobody knew how tough it would be to overturn obamacare, what did you think? >> well, i mean, i thought it was rather amusing that a few weeks ago president trump s...

Can you get something like tax reform through? >> i dont think thats necessarily the truth, but hopefully the lesson learned is this, and that is, dropping something three weeks and its not that its necessarily an administration lesson, but its listen, if were going to build consensus, if were going to try to pull it off from the republican side of the house, you need to build consensus before you go to mark-ups of the bill, not after. >> congressman mark, republican from nevada, thank you for t...

Like senator portman who spent an enormous number of speeches on the opioid epidemic, its not a right or left issue its a practical issue. all this stuff going on at once. i probably wouldve been pretty close to what paul ryan dig. bring a bill out, go to mark ups. allow amendments. then they go to to energy and commerce into ways and means to a markup in the budget committee of the combined bill. then you go to the rules committee, the members of the freedom caucus can walk in and say we want t...

Have opioid treatments, are they going to drop them which were somebody like senator portman who spent an enormous number of speeches on the opioid epidemic, its not a right or left issue its a practical issue. all this stuff going on at once. i probably wouldve been pretty close to what paul ryan did. bring a bill out, go to mark ups. allow amendments. then they go to to energy and commerce into ways and means to a markup in the budget committee of the combined bill. then you go to the rules g ...

Of doing and know it will make a positive difference in peoples lives and against the backdrop of a collapsing law doing real damage to families every day in america. [question indistinct] >> we know it will come before the bill gets to the floor. its common you have mark-ups where you have a score. its common practice. because we made changes this weekend to accommodate members concerns, particularly conservatives it pushed the date back so i spe expect next week well get the score before we ge...

That. we know it will come well before the bill gets to e floor. its very common you have mark-ups in authorizing committee levels before you have a score. thats common practice. because we made some changes this weekend to accommodate members conserves, particularly conservatives, that pushed the date back. so i expect at the beginning of next week well get the score, well before we go to the floor. >> you say you have no doubt youll get the 218 votes necessary to pass the bill. what gives you ...

Its as my colleague said, not that much to get through. its pretty well understood. and its keeping in practice with reconciliation legislation. as you know when the democrats did reconciliation, they didnt have a cbo score before it went up to the budget committee. thats pretty much how it operates. well proceed with our mark-ups. there will be a cbo score coming and we look forward to that before it comes to the house floor so all the members of our congress have an opportunity to see that. >>...

Do republicans have a secret obamacare plan? or is the only secret that the republicans dont have a plan that they can all eventually agree on? >> well, they do have a plan, and its not secret at all. in fact im holding a copy of the version that they discussed wednesday, when all the republican senators met behind closed doors. and i have a piece in the new york post today analyzing it in case your viewers would like to read that. so the latest iteration, just a day after that meeting, includes...