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Health care, guaranteed income. i think a lot of people who are populist, they would identify with sanders and trump would say yeah, those are things we want. >> chris: absolutely. in fact when we talk about the shifting political dynamics inside the country, one of the things going on is the big move of poor and working-class white voters away from the democratic party into the republican party. they are going to bring the same demands with them when they get there. for those voters, things lik...

Confused. harris says mcconnell confuses her. >> harris: how do you find out what the president wants? you ask him. would you sign this? >> lawrence: no, and this is not we sent him down there to d do. >> kennedy: this is where i agree with you on mitch mcconnell because this thing does not extract. why are they extracting more concessions? the democrats lost 1,000 seats on obamacare. why we are not the drivers seat on this when this whole mess is their fault, i dont understand this is where we ...

To put it on the floor immediately this week. it will pass and it will pass by a large number of votes. >> sandra: mcconnell says he only put alexander murray to a vote if the president will in fact find it. >> what im waiting to hear from president trump, what kind of health care bill might sign. if there is a need for some kind of interim step here to stabilize the market, we need to build the president will actually sign. >> sandra: meanwhile, president trump says the alexander-murray bill is...

>> kennedy: welcome back. ive missed you so, so much. senate majority leader harry reid making a surprise appearance at the full meeting over the weekend. slamming president trump on several issues, including his push to rollback obamacare. saying "health care is basically been ruined by trump." also bashing white house chief of staff general john kelly for getting involved in president trumps feud with frederico wilson. saying "i would hope that they would stop sending this four-star general ou...

Rollback obamacare, et cetera, et cetera. i think and i think the ambassador knows this more than i. his impact could be foreign policy. going beyond four or eight years. what we saw was clear. donald trump does not believe or at least rhetorically speaking in the post world war ii u.s./europe alliance. there are many things he is willing to say. nato dues. things on trade. climate change. he is not willing to go along. the whole make america great again slogan was focused internally, domestical...

System, the fatal conceit of obamacare is that were going to make everybody by our health insurance at the federal government level, young and healthy people are going to go into the market and pay for the older sicker people. the young healthy person and it is going to be made to buy health care and for the person who gets breast cancer in her 40s or gets heart disease in his 50s. take a look this chart chart. the red slice here are what i would call people with pre-existing conditions. people ...

Premiums are spiraling out of control and the insurers are losing so much money that theyre pulling out of the marketplace. call a death spiral. it is an actual collapse. thats what america is facing today. if we simply do nothing, just washed our hands of it, if we in the majority party said the democrats give us obamacare, let them live with it, the collateral damage in this country would be awful. more and more people would see even higher premium increases in 2018, more and more people would...

That the reason people like obamacare is that it provides them access to care that they didnt have previously. if youre going to talk about reforming health care, lets be clear. even barack obama himself said that obamacare, the affordable care act is not perfect and its going to be retooled and tweaked over time. no legislation is perfect when it comes out the door. what we have right now is on health care bill, its a tax bill at the end of the day. once again, as most tax bills due under conse...

House because we are following regular order. at lower costs more choices, not less, patience and control, access to care. use of the four driving principles that we are focused on. it lower in cost, giving people more choices, having patients and control and universal access to care. let me walk you through exactly how we propose to do this. these are long-standing, conservative principles that those of us who have been working in health care for about 20 years have been fighting for, dreaming ...

>> jon: as you watch republicans try to dismantle obamas former legislation, what you think about the struggles in their own party? >> i think its ironic, because as we seem at this his political party, this is another pain point theyre inflicting on themselves. they didnt have to do it this way. theres no reason to wash this through through at this moment and undo obamacare as we know it now. lets think about this, lets take a step back. this is a campaign promise has been in the making for six...