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Just the medicaid expansion. i think they are also at real risk of losing senator lee from utah and senator cruz from texas, for different reasons. we have talked a lot about repeal and replace. but there is emerging some -- the right place for republican senators to be in the camp of what i call, denounce and preserve. you attack the bill from the right, so no one can say youre a sellout or a rhino or a squish or anything like that. you attack it for maintaining a lot of the architecture of oba...

The fwoft will always estimate theyll buy it. i just think thats bogus. >> conservatives remain increasingly skeptical with the refundable tax credits that would replace obamacare subsidies in providing aide for individuals without provider insurance to purchase plans. then restructuring of medicaid. hot button issue across the country given the expansion many same vp states took under obamacare. four senators said they will oppose any bill that doesnt protect enrollment lees in their state. >> ...

Skeptical on the tax credits to purchase plans. then the restructures of medicate, a hot button issue given the programs expansion many took under obamacare. four senators will oppose that bill in their states. this is the moment when white house muscle will be needed. president trump today meeting with top house vote counters and urgent support for the house plan. >> i believe we the have tremendous support. im seeing the support not only in this room, but everybody. i got elected to a certain ...

House speaker paul ryan says he has spoken with both president-elect trump and vice president-elect pens, they are in sync and want to move carefully to get it right. >> that is going to take time, that will take a transition. we want to make sure. we dont want to put peoples mind at ease, they are going to lose their health care, some february day. >> trump has been consistent on this health care ball struck the campaign and transition. >> itll be repealed and replaced. it will be essentially s...

The endorsement which will mean that paul ryan will not be speaker. is that correct? >> you will have to ask the individuals involved. my understanding was the requirement there be an endorsement by the tuesday group, constitutionalitiy economiee and free. im a member of the tuesday group and member of the study committee, a member of the texas delegation, and paul is meeting with us tomorrow morning. so well see where all that goes. people around here, theyre good vote counters, and they genera...

Im a member of the tuesday group and member of the study committee, a member of the texas delegation, and paul is meeting with us tomorrow morning. so well see where all that goes. people around here, theyre good vote counters, and they generally can tell the way things are going to go. >> what was your reaction? from the outside, and i have no dog in this fight for a variety of obvious reasons. the whole thing looked to me like watching two people talk themselves into a relationship, that is go...

Strategy is just purely on a basis of winning and losing obviously has been successful. what you are saying, charles krauthammer is saying to the world tonight is that liberals are morally bankrupt. they dont believe in anything. they dont believe in helping the down trodden. they dont believe in protecting the defenseless. they dont believe in anything. they are a bunch of cynical vote counters who will do anything for power. that is what you are saying? >> no. thats what oreilly says that krau...

Mccain, questioning why he would trust the word coming from the ayatollah versus the words coming from a decorated war veteran like secretary of state john kerry. thats the way the president characterized it during this press conference. but, you know, this is an issue that is going to follow the president right into next week as congress comes back hearings will be held bob corker chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, will be trying to move his legislation forward. and our vote co...

On this. because of this, they decided to go ahead and postpone that vote until later on this morning, 10 cln 30 this morning. thats when they were making the case that this extension is only for another three months. the republicans are saying, wait a minute this is going to cost $3.6 billion. the president saying hes only going to take a part of these benefits. late yesterday, our vote counters over in the cnn unit over on capitol hill said that senate democrats may be one vote shy of the 60 v...

>> chris: senator durbin you and senator cornyn are the whips, the vote counters, know whether or not there are are enough votes. are there enough votes when this comes up this week for you to pass the manchin toomey compromise on expanded background checks? >> i think john will concede that pat toomey of pennsylvania is one of the most conservative members of the republican senate caucus and joe manchin one of the most conservative members of the democratic caucus. the two have come up with a b...