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His response was he understood that it probably wasnt going to help them all that much and he was open to something else. so i think there is a path forward here if the republicans are willing to start over. >> you know, you said a picture is worth a thousand words. i will remark that that photo of the president being flanked by senators murkowski and collins was quite telling, considering that those were two of the biggest opponents of the senate bill among the republican caucus, within the sen...

Found there was only one group in america who is made better off after you account for tax credits and other things, 18-year-olds in a certain income range are the only people made better off by this. everyone else would pay more either in higher premiums or high out of pocket costs. its an absolute lie. so basically, this law is making health insurance more expensive. if you want to actually fix it, you have to go so radically far away from where it is now, its not a tweak. you have to rip the ...

Votes in the senate. rk sill ya reconciliation wasnt used in 2009. it was all democrats but it wasnt reconciliation. democrats want stability for these exchanges, republicans want more flexibility on the exchanges. they want perhaps nor product that has less requirement and protections built around them. i think theres a conversation to be had between stability and flexibility but that cant happen if the goal is to move millions from the ranks that are insured. we have to make sure our goal is t...

>> so they just werent happy. >> this is the bus they get thrown under. pool video shows the president flanked by susan collins, lisa murkowski and dean heller. then came this tweet "trump says senate has chance to pass important health care bill. if it fails, he wont like it and thats okay. >> we have really no choice but to solve the situation. obamacare is a total disaster. its melting down as we speak. rates are going up. in fact, its very interesting, lisa, that youre sitting next to me bec...

They want to make sure that no federal money is going to be used to provide abortions. they also want to make sure theres less money in the tax credits to go to low income people who need to buy insurance. they say thats just another entitlement program the government doesnt have money for. on the other side, moderates want more money from medicaid spending. this is the program that helps low income people access insurance that was expanded under the affordable care act, and they want more money...

This. >> let me bring the white house dynamic into this because the president thought the house bill was too mean and it sounds like in trump language rand paul wants to make it more mean. >> i think that that is a correct assessment and i think youre going to hear moderates say that the draft of this is too mean. i talked to a couple of them, senators murkowski and others out of the capitol. if they try to move this closer to the conservatives well push back really hard. but i do think at some ...

We have heading to the white house. you have really a mix of essentially all the different constituent groups the president needs to wrangle if he hopes to get 50 votes. senators rob portman of ohio and lisa murkowski. susan collins of maine. many listed have concerns. rob portman, for example, about medicaid and cuts to that. senators murkowski and collins known to have concerns about cutting planned parenthood funding. its possible that there is no way for republicans to get 50 votes in the se...

Schools help educate kids with disabilities, where that money comes from. you had a surprising -- senators murkowski and collins from alaska and maine, two republicans coming out, saying they werent going to support her. that set the stage for high drama today with a 50-50 vote. vice president mike pence coming up here to capitol hill to cast that tie-breaking vote. hes then, of course, been kind of back and forth in the hallways here, having some meetings with other members of congress, with th...

Vote away from blocking that nomination. lisa murkowski is one of those and she explained why to andrea mitchell a short time ago. >> i recognize i represent a state for whom a strong public education system is an absolute must. so many of alaskans communities will never have an opportunity for school choice because they are too small, they are too remote. >> brandy winegarten, american federation of teachers union and spoke at the march in washington. thank you for joining me. >> i saw you -- i...

You offer your super bowl pick and president trump has shown quite an affinity for tom brady. >> i think you know where i come down on that one. yeah? >> sean, senators murkowski and collins say theyre going to vote no on betty devos nomination. senator pence would have to cast the tiebreaking vote. how confident are you that you have all the other republican senators locked down? whats the level of concern in the white house that her nomination will fail? >> zero. i have confidence shell be the...