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Hearings. by contrast mcconnell is writing his bill in secrecy excluding democrats and the public. l.a. times reports 15 patient groups asked mcdonl office to meet with them. they were told mcconnell is too busy. its being drafted by 14 men no women who wont share the text with their republican colleagues. >> none of us have seen the language of the bill. washington post reports at least one senator complained the digital slides are flashed across the screen so quickly they can hardly be committ...

Language of the bill. washington post reports at least one senator complained the digital slides are flashed across the screen so quickly they can hardly be committed to memory. senate republicans cant say what the bill is trying to do. five times fox reporters asked john mccain what policy problems the bill is trying to solve. theyre trying to get to 51 vote toss pass it. theres a simple explanation for the secrecy. republicans know whatever they release is going to be exceedingly unpopular. th...

And we threaten congressmen. thats what steve bannon has brought to this white house. >> the number of wars we talked about in the early days of the administration, number of wars that have been picked is massive. the one thats caused him the biggest problems, ironically, firing of the fbi director is not something that steve bannon supported. >> right. >> the president was driving that decision and recommended by others. the policy problems -- again, go back to clinton in particular. clinton wa...

Winning administration thats a pretty serious issue so this investigation will continue. were at a point where we have the administration that has united government and the policy problems for the nation are not being addressed and right now republicans have burdens. they control government. the democrats do not so as people keep score politically and value what this president is doing the russia scandal is absolutely consuming this period in american history. >> theres multiples. not one. wlaps...

Up. i dont know that we have in washington a good enough understanding of whats worked and what hasnt worked about obamacare to leap into this new area where fewer people are covered. it creates policy problems. i think real political problems down the road. conservatives more moderates who were balking at this didnt want to be responsible for leaving out the most vulnerable. we dont know whether this fix is enough to really deal with people who have pre-existing conditions. thats why its been s...

At the end of this process, there are going to be fewer people who have health care insurance in the country. conservatives say thats a good thing because if you have the federal government to get people covers, it causes premiums to go up. i dont know that we have in washington a good enough understanding of whats worked and what hasnt worked about obamacare to leap into this new area where fewer people are covered. it creates policy problems. i think real political problems down the road. cons...

Clean repeal 17 months ago. >> why did the house relationship and why did trump try to rewrite the laws that cover one-fifth of americas economy in 17 days? >> yeah. that -- >> newt gingrich didnt even try to do that. >> thats a fundamental question. there were political problems, policy problems and process problems and typically good process will lead to better policy which leads to better politics. >> i just dont understand it. theyre telling conservative republicans, were going to alter one-...

Hearts of conservatives to support this bill. i think if they went for a straight up obama care repeal they would have a better shot, but that causes certain policy problems which cause political problems. >> well, if you look at the white house making a few changes to the bill, they were reportedly agreed on, they include more tax credits for older lower income people and more control for states to manage their medicaid. congressman mark walker says he will vote for it now, but not everyone is ...

Its a real problem. the kkk, you know, are our home grown terrorists in this country. and that whole group of folks that bannon has promoted throughout the years are very sympathetic to the kkk. >> jonathan, as we head into the weekend and given what we just talked about, whats your sense of the white house and we can talk about bannon, whats your sense of how its operating and whether theyve got things kind of back on track? >> i think they are improving. look, the idea that this was a well oil...

And the opposition. there are those who may dispute that with the benefit of hindsight but i think those were the right choices, but that doesnt mitigate our feelings of great frustration at the loss of so many innocent lives, at the fact that this conflict has had impacts on neighboring countries as well as our friends and allies in europe, so this is a horrific challenge, its one of the most difficult policy problems ive ever seen and i think that the difficult choices that president obama mad...