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Trump. he used every tool in his arsenal to get, as you said, those 217 votes and closing it in the other day with the upton amendment was what it took to do it. hes given everybody, as you described it, a little band-aid, a little cover. some of these members there for that photograph have very little cover. theyre going to see whether this photograph today ends up in the stuff thats been, you know, put up against them when theyre running again. but the point is, he managed to give everybody th...

Lower chamber, miss pelosi there, spending a few minutes railing against it. we will continue to listen in. lets bring in anton, former director of external affairs for the department of health and human services under president obama, phil klein, managing editor, columnist for the washington examiner, larry levist, senior vice president of the kaiser family foundation which focuses on health policy and jonathan grish is with us as well, professor of economic at m.i.t. a lot of folks who call hi...

Experts and ive studied this the last two months say we need close to $200 billion to be able to pay for the high risk pool. were going to charge seniors five times more. seniors arent people in the 50s. this is a bad bill. i wish it the -- this isnt a war between republicans and democrats. its about real peoples lives out there. i hear from them every ta. is the affordable care act perfect? no. lets work together to fix those little problems and not destroy a bill that is a major health care co...

House correspondence dinner is to hold up the first amendment. you bring the leader of the free world and pillary him. every president except when reagan was shot has sat there, taken his lumps, and said yes, we have the freedom of the press. we have freedom of speech and expression in this country, and it even rises to the occasion that the president of the united states can sit there and be a big boy and take it. the issue of fake news isnt what the white house correspondence dinner is about. ...

>> yeah, i think so. and just to go back, the upton amendment that you mentioned was $8 billion. thats $8 billion additional ear marked to help people with preexisting condition. the overall number is closer to $130 billion over ten years. so theres a big difference there. so, yeah, look, i think richards point on the senate is correct. what you have to remember is reconciliation is this tool that the democrats used to pass obama care in 2010. its a budget thing. a budget maneuver. that means be...

Getting used to having that luxury. steve: key is as you look at and that is party of the upton amendment right there. the key is getting rid of all those -- a lot of regulations and a lot of the taxes which many small businesse businessesd with they will be out if it passes the senate. the question is will donald trump sign it? of course he will. ainsley: i dont think thats a big question. brian: its amazing you talk about middle east peace and got totally swamped by everything else yesterday. ...

Visits of members up to the white house, meeting with president trump in the west wing. they are desperately in need and desire this victory. this legislative victory. it can demonstrate to their constituents when they go home after today for another week-long recess. were into procedural votes here in the house floor. there are three measures theyll be coat voeting on today. first o all, fred upton, the member from michigan who got the $8 billion t help pay for those with pre-existing condition...

Names and i feel like i can hear exactly the same criticism coming from democrats today. what is the deal, congressman? theres no cbo score on this bill. this was a party line vote. a slim majority at that. sweetheart deals. we had the upton amendment, $8 billion yesterday after upton met with president trump. 50% of americans are not confident in this bill it sound just like what your republican leadership said back then. >> i couldnt disagree more. weve been on this bill for over six years. ev...

Amendment just yesterday, which put $8 billion more into stability funds and a high reufb pools that will help people with preexisting conditions. that number is $130 billion in aggregate with this bill. and so it took a number of different sticks and carrots along the way to bring various elements of the party. when you look at those who voted no on the republican side, many of them are moderates from top districts but some are conservatives saying this is not a full repeal. this does not go fu...

Have recklessly and some would say fraudulently claimed that trump care covers americans with preexisting conditions. it does not. it does not. as robert gaboys at the conservative center said about the upton amendment the $8 billion amount is a pittance, spread over five years it is a fifth of a pittance as karen from the kaiser family foundation said the upton amendment would cover the cost for 1% of the individual market. others have given it up to 5%. 1 to 5%. does that mean covering? no. fo...