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Society. if we are going to be able to pay our social entitlement. a decade or so from now you know, the masses really ugly. they all knew this. they knew the numbers, but the common response back is they did not want president trump to have something that look like -- >> he has tainted it in their view. >> they saw through a lens of president trump and so for those of us on the ways and means committee trying to grind out the numbers, to make this as fair, simple and progrowth for our communiti...

Whole bunch of folks in this country who oppose everything about that. so what we saw this weekend was a deluge of outsiders trying to intimidate us away from th work. but to your question, we had the largest assembly of law enforcement personnel in the assembly since 9/11. they were charged with one mission, which was setting the conditions for people to peaceably express themselves and assemble. that -- you know, they didnt do that starting right at the beginning. so unlawful assembly was prop...

The idea is that they would let people who are younger, healthier, who maybe dont want to spend as much money on the plan buy into the system at a lower level. so youd still get more people getting insured but getting much less for their coverage. so this is one of the two options that the cbo is looking at now. a plan that includes that amendment and a plan that doesnt. when i spoke to someone in senator mcconnells office earlier today theyre going back and forth about different options here as...

By the president, more face-to-face interaction with the senators, some more working the phones. weve been told hes been working the phones. >> reporter: he has been working the phones and will continue to work the phones. the question is whether or not he can make the math work and part of the issue is, anderson, and you know weve been talking about this debate for several days, can he make adjustments to the bill that satisfy moderates when it comes to medicaid funding while at the same time a...

Said its suspected this might be another case of empty rhetoric. keep in mind, this is a health care bill. we had a number of polls come out today, all of them, if you average them together, show that this has about 20 to 25% approval among the american people. those are legislative dog food numbers. to think that youre going to have 50 republican senators, some of them up for re-election, that will sign on to this, he might be in for a big surprise of his own, anderson. >> should we expect more...

Degree or a lot of a degree to the idea of these tax cuts. having said that -- and i like to be dispassionate and do some of the math. this plan today, this is not a plan. were 100 days in. this is a piece of paper, which im surprised it didnt come on a napkin at this point. i mean this is not -- the math here -- >> andrews right. >> this should offend anybodys sense whos ever been to a math class. youd have to hire david copperfield to make this work out. >> okay. lets go to a couple things. >>...

Make money on this, too many people are old and sick, were tulg. in that sense time isnt really on the side of obamacare. yes, on the one hand you get people used to it. listen, i dont like this, my premiums are too high, my copays are too high. that gives you pressure. the question of this whole required benefits of health care, republicans need to level with people. these are part of whats making things expensive. this is part of whats making premiums up. i you say to insurance companies you h...

>> come back at 5:30. >> lets dig deeper on changes to medicaid under the health care bill. the plan covers 70 million people in medicaid. it was expanded under obamacare. 16 states chose to expand medicaid under obamacare. they have been pressuring not to repeal. the proposal rolls back the expansion gradually. remaining untouched until 2019. the following year, it eliminates the match for expansion. states get a fixed amount per enrollee. states, not the federal government, on the hook for cos...

To spend a whole lot more on the military. so we asked a republican congressman, does that math work for you? thats next.

Th work as hard as anybody at the white house and complain as less as anybody at the white house. [ applause ] applause is appropriate at that point. i think the only team that may contend with them might be the research department here at the white house led by alex plotkin and kristen bartaloni. i hope you get a chance to thank the stenographers for their work. they make your life easier. others stretched as thin and at least as effective as any team of press wranglers weve ever had at the whi...