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Good sunday morning and congratulations for remembering to set your clocks forward an hour. who knew that health care could be so complicated? house republicans reveal their replace version of repeal and replace of obamacare to decidedly mixed reviews. president trump offered qualified support allowing that changes could still be made to the bill, but the proposal got hit on all sides by freedom caucus republicans saying the bill didnt go far enough to eliminate obamacare, to moderate republican...

Over where we are right now as opposed to where the line is going right now where people are losing coverage and well have fewer individuals covered than we do currently. >> lets go to the financial feasibility here. in fayette county, west virginia, kaiser family foundation estimates the $4,000 tax credit that a 60-year-old making $30,000 a year will get under the american healthcare act is almost $8,000 less than they would get under obamacare. this is a county, by the way, that voted overwhel...

Northumberland county, pennsylvania. donald trump won this county with 69% of the vote. with obamacare, the same 60-year-old qualifies for a subsidy of ready for this $11,150. with the new house republican plan, he or she would get just $4,000. its that same $4,000 tax credit which means they would have to dig out more than $7,000 out of their own pocket to pay for additional coverage. lets look at 81% of the counties that voted for hillary clinton overall. in fact, a 60-year-old making $40,000 ...

Current obamacare system and the time to make any sweeping change is right now. >> this is the closest we will ever get to repealing and replacing obamacare. >> republicans racing the political clock to push through a health care replacement bill have a message. >> republicans unified. >> we are unified. >> we are unified. >> we are really excited about the unified vote. >> but the fight over health care is exposing divisions within the republican party. between small government conservatives, s...

At this bill that with less money going to subsidies, th older americans beinable to be charged five times what younger americans are being charged, and with no variation based on income that more people will have coverage. theres every estimation that anywhere from 2 million to 15 million people will lose coverage in this bill and there are going after medicaid expansion which is a lot of lower income, working adults who will also lose that coverage. >> what do you say to conservatives who worr...

Age is the thing that correlates best to what health coverage costs. >> age is also -- and this is a part of obamacare that didnt work which was to try to get as many young people on the system. they needed 40% of folks under 35 in the system to keep premiums down. it hasnt gotten to that. how do you do it? how does it do it here? because this system seems to essentially say to folks under 35, dont worry about it. if you dont want to get health care were not going to make you do it and that only...

I believe you love this bill because you have house boys that are waiting. are you in favor of this bill? >> greg: here is my suggestion for the bill. do nothing. its time to gunned government for a year. time out for a year as punishment for all the horrible things they have done, we dont want another obamacare. we dont want another irs or benghazi. lets send government to their room, no tv, no dinner, all they get is bare necessities, natural disasters and defense and let it catch up to your i...

Maybe twice in eight years. 118 visits. now if you say, 80% of those were for obamacare implementation, what else are they going to talk about? zbloord. >> andrea: that is what i said earlier. what could they talk about. jason chaffetz asked the question that was most important today. he said, did you, when you asked the white house, talk about 501- cs. and he was like, i dont know, well, my memory doesnt serve me. i dont know. get the guys from ginko baloba. we can get you some too, bob. 132 ti...

Money they pay in taxes. i believe you love this bill because you have house boys that are waiting. are you in favor of this bill? >> greg: here is my suggestion for the bill. do nothing. its time to gunned government for a year. time out for a year as punishment for all the horrible things they have done, we dont want another obamacare. we dont want another irs or benghazi. lets send government to their room, no tv, no dinner, all they get is bare necessities, natural disasters and defense and ...

Underestimated go rosen as a reporter. >> andrea: for the record. i find him wildly entertaining and wildly charming. >> bob: i wanted to make that pointed. >> dana: james i love that picture. >> bob: she doesnt mean that. >> andrea: isnt that point if you read the affidavit that the government was nervous was the way in which james was so kind and friendly to kim. if that is conspiracy because he is nice guy, he is a nice guy. its not a criminal activity but take yourself back to what was happe...