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Mean tweet, it diminished as the political reality set in, no matter what you think of obamacare, theres no way donald trump is going to be a guy to go out in private or public and articulate an argument for this bill that would move the numbers that would make sense. the emperor has been buck naked from the beginning. as ezra noted, i have talked to members in the meetings, basically, this guy has no clue, whatsoever what hes talking about. hes more comfortable being a presidential truck driver...

Lose your seat. the polls said the opposite. if you vote for it, you are taking an extreme risk with your seat. >> this was an exten shl choice for those guys where donald trump did not overperform. these guys were looking at number where is this bill was in the mid-20s to high teens in almost every case for approval. the fact of the matter was, the pressure on these folks from donald trumps minions and the mean tweet, it diminished as the political reality set in, no matter what you think of ob...

Is a question about the bubble. is donald trump running on a bubble about how this is going to work and does reality set in. take women, who are the majority of voters. the republican health care overhaul here according to the ap, a one-year freeze on planned parenthood funding, it bars the use of new federal tax credits to purchase plans that cover abortion. you have losing potentially the medicaid there that you see on the map that would affect women all over the place and particularly women w...

Day americans are facing the harsh realities of the current health care system. the uncertainty of whats ahead and the fear of not having insurance coverage in the future. bren traveled to knoxville, tennessee, where a major insurer about to pull out of the states obamacare program. watch this. >> for melissa and her fiance, this mobile home is their means to living out the couples dream of driving cross ko-country. recently, a new reality set in. >> i was diagnosed with leukemia. >> an incurabl...

Means to living out the couples dream of driving cross-country. recently, though, a new reality set in. >> i was diagnosed with leukemia. >> reporter: the incurable form of cancer, a basket of prescriptions keep her going. >> now im a sick person. before i wasnt. >> reporter: now her treatment is covered under the affordable care act. humana is pulling out of the program leaving 40,000 customers in the knoxville area, leaving nance without coverage the end of this year. >> i battled cancer and s...

Remember, we had this conversation back when the iraqis were promising they would retake mosul by the end of the year, and none of us believed that, and i think that reality set in once they actually started the operation. and as barbara said, this two-week lull was actually a reset, and theyre calling it phase two. in reality, they were stopped. isis put up a much more difficult fight than everybody thought they would do. iraqis took more casualties than they thought they were going to, and now...

Its considered a last resort by firemen standards but one they knew they had to do. within seconds, jim lee was being lowered down, scaling the burning building. >> go to your right, jimmy, go to your right. >> he was burning, you could with hear him yelling. i remember seeing him look up at me with that hood up and i said "lets go." >> reporter: with the hope holding them beginning to burn -- >> lower it down nice and easy, lower them down. >> reporter: the team of firefighters successfully low...

Situations. brynn gingras with five of new yorks bravest who went beyond the call of duty. >> every out of the building. >> this is the type of job you see once in a 20-year career. >> reporter: as a manhattan apartment building ig fighted in flames, more than 200 members of the fdny raced toward it. these five men among them. >> the roof was on fire, there was fire coming out of the shaft. there was fire all around us. >> reporter: firefighters never met before but that day an 81-year-old man t...

Played greg brady as we learn and celebrate the life of florence henderson as she passed away overnight at the age of 82 years young. also ahead, its being called a miracle on 93rd street. you will see this daring rescue from a burning building and the dangerous technique these firefighters rarely use. >> the roof was on fire. there was fire coming out of the shaft, there was fire all around us. ve seen such a change in einstein since he started the new beneful recipe. the number one ingredient ...

I just have to ask you, so you get out of the theater, and you get a sense of whats happening, whats going through your mind? >> scared. very scared. it was like reality set in real quick. >> yeah. >> did you know immediately what had happened? did you know there was a gunman in the theater next door? >> yes. because like i said the lady sitting not far from me had gotten word there was and right after she said that we heard screaming. so we all just kind of panicked. there were seven or eight o...