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Though -- because i know even president obama during the transition had -- spoke privately with the president was able to acknowledge there were room for some tweaks. do you think there is a missed opportunity on the table in washington for democrats and republicans to have made some iks fixes things to have made obamacare more sustainable would you have been open to changes or improvements in obamacare. >> absolutely. for example for an insurance company going to a new market it has to have rei...

>> gosh, it sounds like everybody is passing around the book, "art of the deal." do you think he wishes to have a bill passed or he wishes to bring a bill up for a vote to say hey, i tried and it failed? >> there is a lot of speculation on it. honestly, i dont know, as you know he and his party have campaigned for seven long years on repeal and replace obamacare. and on one level, i think he would certainly like to get this done. its what they promised to voters. its what the base wants. but thi...

>> douglas: i am mystified by the health care debates in this country. the one thing i do know is that this politicization of absolutely everything thats going on in your country and my own is really disheartening to the general public. we really are seeing people making accusations like that. just to be some decency in the debate. can there be some recognition of what happens. the politicization of everything. its one of the status developments -- status developments of our time. >> eboni: sinc...

Will contain. how do you debate what you dont even know exists. why are we the people, this is one piece of legislation that affects us all and will affect our children and maybe our childrens children. we dont even get a chance to see a good debate on it. shove it down our throats. obamacare. now they want to shove reformed down our throats. >> kat: they spent seven years criticizing the democrats for forcing obamacare through without -- doing it quickly and not worrying about how good the plan...

That. so many. hes the guy who is not the politician, right? >> eboni: and positioned to learn the lessons of obamacare is controversy, that that didnt work out so well. maybe we can do better. >> eric: there is no feasible way to put together a national health care system this way. douglas will tell you -- we are headed toward a single-payer system at some point unfortunately. >> eboni: weve got to go. we have to circle back with our specialists, douglas murray and curtis sliwa. stay with us. t...

Refugee crisis in syria. the continent of europe. >> douglas: that is only one component of our crisis. people are coming from sub-saharan africa, north africa, middle east. camps. >> curtis: that is why you have a no-fly zone with the russians and americans cooperating so refugees can stay in syria so when the civil war is over they are not coming here. they are not going to europe. they are staying in syria. >> eric: im not the guy who says lets take out assad. up next, seven republicans racin...

Your income. if youre 60 years old, your premium might be $12,000 and get a $4,000 tax credit that wouldnt cover the premium. >> one example with the cbo, when they put it out, a single 64-year-old making $26,500 a year would have to pay more than half of his or her salary in premiums. that is unaffordable for a lot of people clearly. i want to talk more about the aspect of this republican plan, the medicaid funding, a big concern for governors like john kasich who athena brought us in the last ...

A democratic control of congress that was much bigger than republicans have now. you had for the first year until teddy kennedy passed away in massachusetts, you had 60 votes. you had a filibuster-proof majority in the senate, in addition to democratic control in the house. and a very popular president. and it still took until march of 2010, so another word it would be like passing something not this march, but a year from this march, taking 14, 15 months to pass it because even though you have ...

Working relationship with congress. touching on a few different themes, we just want to remind you as he started out, the conversation with the comment, nice to win. that is how he started, and speaking about his win as president, but also the win and the great state of so crucial in campaigns year after year. he also talked a little bit about obamacare, saying this, remember obamacare is a disaster. we have to take care of american people immediately, and that was a theme that he touched on rep...

Wants a 200-day agenda because theyve got so much to do. tax reform is part of it, they also want to have a repeal and replace obamacare bill or law are ready to by the end of february, may be into march. they do have a lot of big plans, can they accomplish them? >> i think really what youre saying, chip is right, what you are seeing is that difference between, donald trump ceo, he is used to walking in. if he wants to buy the durell country club, he tells his team to go buy it and they do. and ...