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Frustrating or you could say i would do something differently in sometimes passionately would say you can do something differently, at the same time -- this president signed more pieces of legislation his first 100 days than the last many, several administrations. he got a supreme court justice on to the court there have been a lot of executive orders but not a lot of congressional -- >> no. 40. >> law wins. >> 41 bills signed by this president. he signed more bills passed by congress than the l...

Finance budget and banking committees. senator, good to have you this morning. i have to ask you first, where are you at with this? where are negotiations at as of this morning? >> sandra, im having some audio difficulty. im only hearing a little bit of what you said. but i think the question is where are we right now on our bill? and the answer is its still a work in progress. there are a handful of republican senators who are not on board with this draft. theres a big effort to get everybody o...

Repeal and replace, thats still a work in progress. we dont know if theyre going to get to the finish line. tougher trade deals, were awaiting announcements on that. there has been progress in the crack down of illegal immigration. tax reform infrastructure, and two other big campaign, legislative promises or tbd, they havent even started that. but are some of his promises, is some of ignored? >> you have recognize neil gorsuch is huge conservative -- the nominees he put forth on that, its going...

What obamacare does is provides a subsidy so more people can buy health insurance in the same overpriced market that the rest of us are in. thats why the republicans are struggling to come up with an alternative. thats the plan they wanted. the only reason they hated it was because it had barack obamas name on it. >> the cbo scored earlier in the week when it put the senate bill close to where the house was in terms of numbers. it was a work in progress. about 32 million people would lose their ...

200 commercial. 180 airlines. 280 airports and 105 countries. that is enormous job. >> its a lot of flights. it will be ongoing work in progress to enhance security at all 280 last-point departure airports. remember, the 10 that we identified most high threat areas have an outright ban. i think the secretary made the right call. but i think to ban all incoming flights its all threat-based. as that threat evolves, and if we get intelligence, these other airports may be threatened. we likely could...

On that and saying, look, we ka cannot have these big slashes to medicaid, we cannot sort of sustain these types of numbers here of uninsured. so it was -- it went like that for about an hour and 15 minutes or so, and john mccain im also told, he raised some deep concerns about the secretive nature of this whole process here, so it was a venting session. he was designed to unite republicans. thats a work in progress to see if that will ultimately happen. >> do you know -- i mean, did senators in...

If this becomes skplau sarah huckabee sanders basically said during this so-called off camera briefing that she wasnt sure how the president felt about that and what kind of changes he would agree to. and so this is still very much a work in progress over here in the white house is trying to put its best face on what was a pretty awful day yesterday. >> all right. jim acosta with the assessment twofold. thank you, jim. were going to broaden out and let me just tell all of you, senate republicans...

Cautionary subsidies, the deductibles and coinsurance, we are not going to enforce the mandate by the president, that create uncertainty. the insurance companies increase the premiums. one of the reasons we have -- the uncertainty crated by the republicans. >> martha: i have to leave you there. thank you very much. lets bring in florida governor rick scott. got into politics after a career in health care, and he was in meetings all day on capitol hill. good to have you. this is the opposite of w...

Ep low income. this will impact even more than just planned parenthood. 13 million women could lose maternity care. >> what is the message you want to give to people? >> we want our supporters to to up and keep the calls coming into senators and their health care should not be blocked. i stand with pp.org and be heard. >> thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> to get another perspective, i want to bring in james capretta, also the project director for obamacare watch -- not here to talk about p...

Tell you what happened, this is still a work in progress, leader of u.s. senate is very good as establishing coalition to see that legislation passes, but there is still a lot of work to be done to determine whether or not it getting to 51 votes. >> what is your gut? do you think it is this week, what does your gut tell you? >> this is difficult, and that you know, i hate to say this, i dont know whether the votes will be thereby the end of the week. it took a bit longer than was expected. >> wo...