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We could cut health care spending from $3.5 trillion to $1.4 trillion a year. >> those numbers dramatically underestimate the increased spending associated with providing everybody free care. >> reporter: both the conservative leaning mercades institute and a left leaning institute estimated a medicare plan for all would cost $32 trillion in new federal spending and taxes over the next decade while saving only $22 trillion in the private sector meaning sanders plan needs to come up with funding ...

Central to his campaign and how he thinks a front-burner issue again. hes got a real opportunity to get some kind of funding for some kind of barrier, slash wall, slash, steel slats, whatever. democrats have to look at it as an opportunity for a long-term deal on dreamers. think there is an opportunity for this. i dont know if its at the level he wants. it may not be at the level democrats want. i dont think either side -- i heard jonathan martin make this point earlier. democrats have supported...

Its a wall. >> the 147th time hes undercut his own advisers. not surprising in that sense. it does speak to the nature of his presidency, the stream of consciousness, watching tv, responding to something he sees on tv. also the fixation he has on getting this wall which has become so self-reinforcing that hes boxed himself in now. it will be hard for him to do what i think a lot of folks thought he would do last year which is ultimately declare a victory somehow. get some money for border securi...

Lake michigan is one of the fifth biggest lakes in the area. this is brutally cold. the midwest is dealing with winters punch. a brutal arctic freeze sweeping over nearly a quarter of the country bringing the coldest air in a generation to the midwest. >> its freezing cold. my face, toes, everything. >> reporter: with a low temperature of negative 23 and a wind chill of negative 52, the windy citys temperatures lower than parts of antarctica and alaska causing ice breaks to blanket the river and...

He said large sections of wall have been built and much more either under construction or ready to go. renovating existing walls is a plan to properly secure our border. the wall is getting done one way or the other. on the one hand hes saying i have already won. making it easier to make a deal maybe. he beats himself up with the other hand. >> theres a 180. >> not a lot of consistency there. that hallmark of his com strategy. this is the whole thing. the democrats and republicans supported phys...

The one thing from the daily caller interview that surprised me was trump seemingly saying hes going to let this investigation continue. hes not going to interfere. to me that showed uncharacteristic restraint since trump generally doesnt miss an opportunity to take a punch when one presents itself. >> interesting. we should note the president is now five days without a public schedule. hes made a bunch of statements online. jonathan martin, there is one thats interesting to me. i feel as if kel...