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Jobs, which is why the unemployment rate actually fell. i think one thing to really note and something that this administration wants to focus on, certainly moving into the future, i think tax reform plays a big role in this. but one the big identifiers that i think we should look at is the drop in the unemployment rate, including new lows for african-americans, teens, and women, which is certainly a great step forward in this process. >> sarah, president trump has repeatedly said we should just...

Would you say it differently? >> i might not use the last word. let me explain that statement to you and refute what you interpreted and what the urban dictionary interprets it to be. when it was brought up in my family, it meant get your act together. >> so charlie sykes, talking about lisa murkowski and susan collins and the republican women who stood up to their leader and representing their states, what about the level of civil discourse that were seeing here? >> well, donald trump is the pr...

Down to appeal, and even letting obamacare implode by cutting off the cost sharing subsidies, and not paying them. a bipartisan group of lawmakers want to prevent, that and proposed ways to preserve the health care market like fully fund cost sharing reduction payment to insurers, and also, to change the employer mandate to only apply to the companies with 500 or more employee, and so there are some of the ideas there. and joining me is representative elizabeth estee of connecticut can, and what...

Insurance market. is the white house on board with these new bipartisan efforts? brianna keilar is tracking this. where are we right now? >> right now, i would say where the senate and house is is in a different place where the white house is. you are hearing this push from the white house to repeal the whole thing. or to let obamacare implode. theres a lot of frustration from senate republicans who feel like we tried, we tried, we tried, we lost by one vote, we cannot repeal and replace obamaca...

Racial discrimination thats okay. theres shady stuff -- hold on. quotas are not allowed but other things are. you have to walk a line. there are violations at times. you have to police that line. investigating that is a form of protecting people from discrimination. >> i would be careful with the wording. they did not rule -- im being care -- >> this is an internal memo. lets see what happens from that. we didnt get to half the topics i wanted to get to. it was fun and we did it together. thank ...

From the archives. this is actually a plan in motion on capitol hill, despite the presidents instructions to let obamacare implode. you have senator lamar alexander from tennessee among a number of republicans bucking the president on this very issue, holding bipartisan hearings on how to stabilize the individual health insurance market and, quote, put out the fire. brianna is live for us. our senior cnn washington correspondent on the hill and you have what senator alexander is up to. this is a...

Experts can hope for. >> a lot weighing in saying if kelly can deflect and say, hey, look, go to the presidents counsel to throw out questions to them. that can be a success in his area. i want to turn to health care quickly, jordan. were seeing some movement towards bipartisan agreement here and whats happening and how is the white house reacting to this? >> so key chairman lamar alexander is going to hold a hearing about stabilizing the individual insurance markets. answer thats going to allow...

This white house briefing to start. a couple of questions certainly that sarah huckabee sanders will be asked about, including we know that the president has said on one hand, let obamacare implode. hes also still pushing folks on the hill to repeal and replace. this as were learning that republicans are now reaching across the aisle to help fix obamacare, how the white house responds to that and also those phone calls or non-call calls between the president of mexico and also this conversation ...

Is going to take out his anger on consumers and patients all across this country. in the meantime, at the very least, there is good news in that we have started a bipartisan process to try to take away from the president this discretionary power to hurt patients because of how mad he is that his bill has not passed. >> do your colleagues actually believe he would do that in the coming days? he has tweeted several times the best thing he could do is simply let obamacare implode. >> hes been engag...

Obamacare implode. and then do it. i turned out to be right. let obamacare implode. >> president trump there threatening to let the affordable care act go under after republican senators failed to pass repeal measure. the president has promised in the past to stop billions of dollars in government payouts to insurance companies, but the move could put the administration on shaky legal ground. lets bring in bob bianchi, criminal defense attorney, former head county prosecutor and trial attorney a...