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Manner the presidents address tonight. >> bret: deirdre, thank you. lets talk more about tonight. kellyanne conway is a counselor to the president. she joins me right now. thanks for being here. we just heard deirdre in new york talking about the economy, the markets today. for a president who touts the markets, when you see a big head like, is it a dangerous thing to tout the markets as much as he does? >> the president will recap that its been a tremendous year for prosperity and security. t...

And that is why it is essential that we work to fix this issue. my hope is that our colleagues across the aisle will come work with us to get it fixed and they should. >> i agree with the part about the heart wrenching stories that were hearing and that the affordable care act needs reformed. but i think its almost perverted to say that somehow taking away insurance from 20 million to 24 million -- >> thats not the true number. >> then what is the number? what is the number? >> there are only 9 ...

Half the resources in this bill that were in obamacare. now, i can tell we can do with less resources, but you cant do it overnight and you cannot give people a $3,000 or $4,000 health insurance policy. do you know where they will be? they will be living in the emergency rooms again. so they were trying to fulfill a campaign promise and i still say they should have worked with the democrats. if the democrats didnt want to work with them, because some did not, then they should have called them ou...

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And its not working and it has to be fixed. >> bakari. >> if we dont, we no that there with one-third of the counties right now in this country that only have one insurance provider. we know that there are people who were facing not having access to any health insurance. >> let bakari make his point. >> this doesnt help that. you will have people with pre-existing conditions whose care will sky rocket. but if you want democrats to help to get to the point that you were making and john kasich was...

The congressional realm and put patients in contact with their doctors. listen, i was on obamacare. had to get out of it and now im on a medishare and now im actually talking to the doctor about price of care. well keep going around about all the different benefits until we get patients involved in the process and we start lowering the cost of care. insurance means nothing unless you lower the cost of care. >> jen, it seems to me and i said this to dr. price that there was a reluctance to acknow...

Congressman raul labrador, republican of idaho. at a town hall yesterday. with me now to discuss health care and more, bakari sellers, marsha blackburn, jen psaki and amanda carpenter. congressman, let me start with you. nobody dies because they dont have access to health care. true? >> we all know that individuals have and need access to health care and that is one of the reasons were trying to get in this process and clean up what has happened through the affordable care act and the marketplac...

Direction of a system that works for patients. >> as you know, a lot of working class voters went in there in november and pulled the lever for president trump having heard him say that he was going to keep their medicaid, save their medicaid, without any cuts. cbo says this is an $880 billion cut, and i asked you at the top, and i wonder if if you can just directly answer this. because one of the frustrations people have with how obamacare was sold to the public is that politicians werent strai...

Everybody ought to have healthcare. and i think philosophically what did the republicans have to offer? the obamacare bill said universal healthcare. the bill that ryan was offering was, how could you, other than we made a promise we want to keep it, what was the essence of it? there wasnt. and secondly, there was the technical issue. which is that ryan crafted a bill to fit the technical requirements of what was called reconciliation in the senate, which is why he could not include in the bill ...