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Gives him as much wiggle room as possible because at the end of the day he is a deals guy and everything is sort of a transaction. i think they will probably get there because they have made the c calculus that you need to do something. to not do something would be worse for republicans. yes it is a political calculation because they have campaigned on repealing obamacare cycle after cycle. >> the other thing the president campaigned on was saving medicaid and medicare. he said it over and over....

Ugly. uglier than i can remember in any other election cycle. can we be hopeful at all that now we can have a debate about budgets, about taxes, about entitlements that perhaps this is going to be a campaign of ideas and some of that negative nonsense weve been seeing frankly from both sides will start to fall by the wayside? >> im not going to pretend or suggest that the negative attacks are going away. to the point, i think we will see a fundamental big debate about the direction of the countr...

Trail. >> save medicare, medicaid and social security without cuts. >> im not going to cut medicare or medicaid. >> reporter:. >> this is barbaric. this is what oligarchy is all about. it is the wealthy and powerful saying we need more tax breaks. >> reporter: president obama is criticizing the gops latest plan to repeal his signature domestic achievement writing in a facebook post the senate bill unveiled today is not a health care bill. small tweaks over the course of the next couple of weeks ...

Health care, this does not do anything like that. >> why not? >> first of all, obamacare only effects about eight percent of everybody who gets insurance in the united states. everybody else will feel no relief because it is not directed at them. they are targeting a relatively small portion for political reasons. this is mainly about restructuring medicaid. we will hear all the details on that. worth pointing out aarp is against this, the american medical association representing the doctors in...