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Lynchburg. the white family tackles everything at the dinner table from projects to politics behind the controversial firing of fbi director james comey. >> those who are, which is the majority here, those who are pro trump voted for trump, i think something like this doesnt, isnt going to shake them one bit. >> reporter: larry white and his wife kathy are raising their family in lynchburg, in the center of virginia but leaning right more than 50% of the city voted for donald trump. >> we all ba...

Today. >> theres actually a lot of -- you know this. theres a lot of regional variation in the health of the system. but i hear republicans saying its collapsing all the time. cbo concluded its not in a death sprieiral. and the american academy have concluded its not in a death spiral. so are they getting it wrong? >> yeah, in my view they are because theyre basically saying as long as the united states government is willing to dump unlimited amounts of money into it, it will stay afloat. >> but...

Change? >> some senators do want to start over, they want to start their own bill. the main way to get it out of the senate is to use whats called reconciliation, which means it has to be a budget tax and spending kind of bill and other policy issues shouldnt be there. in order to do that, you would expect things that one over the freedom caucus to allow states to opt out to change the rules on pre-existing conditions and allow more flexibility. those of the kinds of things that might not fit in...

The last ten years. you just gave them a huge tax cut -- the house republican caucus. why was that so important? >> well, i think frankly tax reform is important. but i think we can do this more efficiently. again, the system may be well funded, but it doesnt function very well. >> no, you by mean you just voted for a tax cut for those folks. >> well, i voted to repeal a failing health care system and replace it with something that i think will work better. >> right, but you voted for a $600 bil...

In 2011, 35 states used some variation of this high risk pool method. for my audience, throws the states on yellow states with high risk pools kons sfwoogs 2%. nongroup is if youre not part of a company or youre not part of a group policy. an individual policy. in florida it was much lower. >> is there any reason why, if states elect to take this waiver, they dont to have cover everybody with pre-existing conditions, that the numbers would be better now than in 2011 or before that? >> i cant ima...

Is because i lose all the deductions. they have deductions on top of deductions. they have hundreds and hundreds of deductions. >> he is going to get paid less in taxes. he denies everything. the point is that this is about the economy and not about donald trump or mnuchin. in terms of the economy, small businesses are greatly disadvantaged. they have to pay much higher taxes than corporations do and there is an effort here to level the field. we are not going to end up with 15% corporate rate. ...

Its part of our commitment to being americas best first job. ♪ this morning the house approved a continuing resolution to keep the lights on for another week, and hammer out a budget deal. the senate approving a short time later. the fight is far from over. republicans hope to revive their health care plan and also hope to make a run at president trumps tax proposal or a variation of it. congresswoman jackie speier joins me. is the house close to a budget deal? >> i think the cr will be vote...

There. meanwhile, let me start you with one of the questions that he is likely to get or at least a variation of that question, do you believe that this white house is stone walling this investigate as congressman cummings charged this morning? >> thanks for having me. always a pleasure to be on with you guys. theres already an fbi investigation into this. there is a house intel investigation a senate intel investigation. i think that this is highly politically charged, of course. i would like t...

As an offset to pay for that. >> i think it would help middle class people and ordinary people and i think we have to remember that were cutting the corporate rate, however we cut it, in the context of international competition. we have a much higher corporate rate than everybody else. that wasnt the case when ronald reagan was cutting taxes in the 80s. we have an uncompetitive tax system and we have to bring it in line. >> peter, our average is 22% which is below the average. >> i understand bu...

The context here is back and forth betwee>qke(srton and robbie mook in terms of the way they each see the campaign. mooks response to bill clinton was always a variation on the same analysis. the data runs counter to your anecdotes. bill liked data but believed it was insufficient. for him politics was just about finding people who agreed with you and getting them to the polls. he felt that it was important to talk to voters individually to get a real sense of what they were feeling. he also bel...