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Steve: be involved in this flawed system. brian: i want to build on what you said. this is exactly where it went off the rails and gets political and gets people confused. the insurance companies were losing money, so they called on congress to give the insurance companies more money to subsidize. marco rubio stepgd in and said, listen, we have got to stop this. we cant keep writing blank checks to a program thats note successful, which by the way, should have been sustaining itself by now. and ...

Big problems. the system is imploding. and which is going to add a bit of urgency to it which will help propel the senators to do what they want them to. the early signals are right now there will be no insurance coverage in portions of tennessee and also iowa and it looks like they are going belly up with premium surges in virginia and maryland. and so when you put that in front of people like look, we have got to do something the people of maryland and virginia and iowa and tennessee have no c...

I was so excited last year and planning it and i found out you took the day off. thats what caused a big fight last year kind of when you never tell us when you take a day off. brian: the feud america cant get enough of. i had to move my son out of school. ainsley: home now glad to be back. ainsley: isnt it fun to have him back at home? brian: were not sure yet. steve: 6:00 in the east. he will be up at noon. ainsley: before we get to the news though, what did you do for your birthday? brian: i ...

Find unacceptable. it keeps the obamacare subsidies but just renames them as refundable tax credits. >> reporter: then there is the restructuring of medicaid, a hot button issue across the country given the programs expansion many states took under obamacare. four gop senators said they will oppose any bill that doesnt protect enrollees in their states. >> what were trying to do is what we pledged we would do. its not pull the rug out from anybody. >> reporter: and, jake, i got into journalism e...

This is exciting. this is what weve been dreaming about doing. >> weve only had this bill in public for 36 hours, and to try to rush it through this week and then vote on it within the next few weeks really does harken back to some of the problems obamacare was created under. >> this is unified republican government at work, fulfilling our promise. >> nbcs chris jansing, peter l alexander at the white house, kasie hunt on capitol hill and also analysis from michael steele, msnbc political analys...

This route from koch brothers from american prosperity, a football field way from the capital building. >> they are going to have the shortest lived majority in the modern era if they fail to fully repeal obamacare. >> reporter: moderates have long been wary of looming democratic attacks on how many people the bill will actually cover. something sources tell cnn the congressional budget office has told gop leaders will likely fall far short of obamacares projections. is it your view that the m...

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