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CNNW New Day May 5, 2017

For you cnn talk is next. For u. S. Viewers, what does this Health Care Bill mean to you . We have the answers. Lets get after it. Were going to take care of a lot of people with health care needs. If the bill became law, thousands of americans would die because they no longer have access to health care. I dont think this bill will go anywhere in the senate. We have a lot of work to do. One thing is clear. Republicans are committed to keeping our promise. I didnt come here to take away peoples rights. Im not going to. This is repeal and replace of obamacare. Make most mistake. The ayes 217. They have this vote tattooed on them. This is a scar they will carry. This is new day. With chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. Welcome to new day. President trump celebrating his first legislative win in the house, but the fight to repeal and replace obamacare shifts to the senate where it faces an uphill battle. Some Senate Republicans are rejecting the house bill. They want to write their own. The president taking a victory lap from the white house to new york. Democrats vowing republican lawmakers will pay when people head to the polls next year. They were doing the hey, hey byebye. Why didnt you sing it . My voice can change your day for the worse. I know that. We have it covered. Lets begin with Suzanne Malveaux live on capitol hill. Reporter House Republicans took a significant step to fulfilling a promise to the American People in passing Health Care Plan on the house side. There is a significant way to go before it becomes law. Senate republicans rejecting key provisions of the bill. Some even vowing to start from scratch. I think well get it through. Mitch mcconnell knows. Reporter the republican effort to repeal and replace obamacare now in the hands of the senate with the controversial bill that narrowly passed in the house and faces an uphill battle. It could change. It could get better. Reporter senate aors vowing do things their way. Mr. President , this bill in its current form is not getting through the senate. No way. No way. The senate will write its own bill. I dont think the house bill necessarily predicts. Reporter the legislation passed in the house. Eliminates the tax penalty for americans who choose not to buy insurance. Replaces the generous subsidy offered under obamacare with tax credits. And rolls back Medicaid Expansion in 2020. It also increases the limit on what insurers can charge older enrollees and allows companies to charge more for preexisting conditions. Among those to lose the most, those with preexisting conditions, elderly and low income americans. While younger americans, healthy and middle and upper class and Insurance Companies stand to benefit. Hey, hey goodbye reporter democrats taunting republicans after the vote which they say is a political liability in 2018. Some of you said they will fix it in the senate. You have every provision of this bill tattooed on your forehead. You will glow in the dark on this one. Reporter republican senator Lindsey Graham stressing the bill should be viewed with caution because it was rushed through the house without cost and impact estimate. We should have had a cbo estimate. I dont always agree with cbo. I quite disagree. We should still have assessment. Reporter some House Republicans admitting they havent read the legislation before voting yes. I will admit, i did not. My staff did. I would be dishonest. Reporter Something Congress member paul ryan blasted democrats for back in 2009. I dont think we should pass bills we havent read. We shouldnt rush this through. Reporter cbo score is expected to take several weeks. Of course, Senate Republicans saying it will take several weeks for them to go through the deliberative process. It is a process that is not going to be rushed and it will also consider compromise and that bill will go back to the house where the debate will start all over again. Alisyn. You will cover all of it. Suzanne, thank you very much. President trump is taking a victory lap. He is riding high on the first legislative win in the house. And declaring obamacare dead. He made head scratching comments after the vote. Jeff zeleny has more on that. President trump is waking up at the golf course in new jersey after spending a little more than four hours in new york city last night. It was his first visit back to the hometown since taking office. Welcome by protesters which is why he did not stay longer. He arrived with a sense of satisfaction about the Biggest Campaign promise is one step closer to reality. President trump savoring a victory. The first major legislative win. Presiden presidency. A new era of confidence after House Republicans united to repeal and replace obamacare. Republicans came together all of a sudden two days ago and it was like magic. They came together. They are very, very united. Reporter the president meeting with australian Prime Minister malcolm turnbull. Premiums will come down substantially. Deductibles will go down. Reporter the president making this offhanded remark. I shouldnt say this to this great gentleman from australia. You have Better Health care than we do. Reporter democrats point out australia has universal health care. Mr. President , you are right. In australia and every other major country they guarantee health care to all people. They dont throw 24 Million People off insurance. Reporter delaying the first facetoface meeting with the Prime Minister after a victory lap in the rose garden. Surrounded byes hou e e e es ho republicans. We get this passed through the senate. Reporter promises on health care can be hard to keep. Just ask president obama. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor under the proposals we put forward. If you like your private Health Insurance plan, you can keep it. Reporter under his watch, democrats lost control of the house and senate. Largely over health care. The question voters will ultimately decide is trumpcare better than obamacare . We suffered with obamacare. I went through two years of campaigning and im telling you no matter where i went, people were suffering. Reporter the president basking in the moment. Vindication from failing to pass the bill a month earlier. How am i doing . Im president. Can you believe it . Reporter the president has no Public Events on the schedule today as he breathes a sigh of relief. There is an uphill battle in the senate. A white house official tells me the president learned a lesson and plans to be more personal involved in the next phase. The reality is he owns the reshr reshaping of the American Health care system. It is on him. The politics and policy of trumpcare. Lets bring in the panel to discuss. We have cnn analyst abby phillip and Maggie Haberman and chris cilliz cillizza. Are they starting from scratch . You heard them say we will not pay attention. You are not seeing the process that we are used to of reconciliation where you have dual tracks in the same direction. There is a lot going to be tossed out. We will see what it ends up like when they try to marry these bills. Make no mistake. You have senators from purple states or red states where President Trump did well who have a lot of working class or rural voters who do like obamacare. Obamacare is not a slam dunk for a lot of voters. I heard voters complain in the 2016 campaign and premiums had gone up. Enough of President Trumps base of support and swing voters favor it. It is not the easiest thing to take it and get rid of it. The provisions that those voters like in many cases are not in the house version. If they didnt like obamacare, it is hard to argue they are better served under what just passed as trumpcare in the house. Mr. Cillizza, the idea of the president looking at the australian leader and saying you have Better Health care than we do. You have universal health care. Which is what the implication was from that. Is this donald trump trying to be complementally and not knowing what is in the health care or admission on its face he prefers the democrats version . This is a larger pattern of anytime he goes off script he does stuff like this. I do not think he knew what he was endorsing there. I think he has a tendency to tell people what they want to hear. Particularly in a public setting. Thats what he was doing here. I dont think he my guess is he did not study up on the Australian Health care system before doing that sit down. Again, the more he talks, i think his 100day mark was a bad one because he gave so many interviews. I counted 12 or 13 interviews. He just talks and talks and talks. It is almost always, maggie and abby can attest to this. It is almost always off script. This is like reading jack kerowac. He says stuff that he heard. That is not good it is not good as a statesman. When you are the most powerful man in the country. Even with the House Republicans. Am i president . Huh, huh, huh . Im not sure thats the best thing to be doing when you are trying to reform Health Care System lots of people are worried about. By the way, this is not the first time he has endorsed universal health care. In his book, he was all for it. Let me read a passage. Im a conservative on most issues, but liberal on this one. We should not hear so many families ruined by health care expenses. We must take care of our own. We must have universal health care. Obviously he seemed to like it yesterday. In terms of what republicans are thinking with this bill it would be political suicide if it was all bad. Clearly they see some advantages in what they passed in the ho e house. You are right. The universal health care thing is one thing trump held on to perplexingly over years. As recently and a few months ago, he wanted everyone to have insurance. This plan clearly does not accomplish that. There is a disconnect here between trump wanting people to have everything that he thinks is good for them. He wants them to be covered and he wants preexisting conditions to be covered and political reality that is not really possible in a republican house. I think if trump is going to move forward here, it will be with a bill that is going to be substantially changed in the senate and republicans are actually you heard mark meadows saying i think the bill well get better in the senate because they dont think that the substance of the bill is doing what they need to accomplish. The tax credits are not high enough. The Medicaid Expansion process does not work for the states. Theres a lot they have to fix and republicans in the house are hoping for that. It would be interesting if this gets exposed in the senate process as naked political play by those in the house and if they get punished. And another piece of sound. Ryan hanging this as victory as speaker. We got it done. This is the right way to do it. Here is what he said about obamacare. Last week, in a stunning and revealing statement, Speaker Pelosi said quote we have to pass the bill so you can find out whats in it, end quote. This is the transparency that the president promised. T this is not just a simple fixer bill. This is a lynch pin for health care. He went on to say we shouldnt have done this before we knew its impact. He just did. Obviously hypocritical move. He is being celebrated for it. Maggie, explain. I think it depends on who you see doing the celebrating. We saw the white house celebrating and members of his conference. You saw democrats waving and saying na, na, na, goodbye. Republicans are looking at a mirror version of what they complained about democrats doing. Remember, obamacare was debated over many months. This was not rushed through in a couple of weeks. There was a longer process. To be clear, you can have complaints how the bill went down, but it was thorough. There is no cbo scoring yet. You had Chris Collins acknowledge he wasnt familiar in the bill and hadnt read it. The sound you played is the type of campaign commercial you can expect to see in another year or so. Obviously not against paul ryan, but against the moderates in swing districts who are vulnerable with voters. When you take things away from people, it harder. You have to explain it to them. You cannot just say, oh, your preexisting conditions were here yesterday, but they are gone tomorrow. We wont tell you how the process will work. It is the gamble they are playing here. Thats why the republicans were so opposed to obamacare in the first place. You give people entitlements. Taking it away is hard and unpopular sgrch unpopular. You have a slice, chris, that is zeroed in on trumpcare. 1. 5 million to 2 million individuals in the individual market with high deductibles and high premiums. That is the gamble. How big are the stakes . That is huge. 1. 5 million to 2 Million People. We dont have a cbo score. We dont know how much it will cost and how many people are going to be missing coverage as a result. The problem for republicans is were going to find that out. The cbo will score this almost certainly before the senate does anything with it. My guess is you will have more than 1. 5 Million People or 2 Million People not covered. 24 Million People when the cbo first scored that had coverage under obamacare that would not have coverage under the house plan. I think abby makes an important point. When you take something from someone that even if they didnt like it, they had it. It is very hard politically speaking. The explanation for democrats now is you had this. They took it from you. You dont have it anymore. The explanation for republicans. You dont have it anymore, but let me explain. That explanation goes longer than a 30 Second Television commercial. The democrats explanation takes five seconds in a commercial. You play a clip of Chris Collins say i didnt read the bill. End scene. That to me is the problem. I dont there are real policy impacts here for people with preexisting conditions. If the medicaid funding freeze goes through. From a political perspective, this is a much easier sell if you are a democrat running against a republican who just voted for it. You make a good point. Hands off my stuff. Even my bad stuff. Thank you, panel. The house bill promises to give states more control of health care. You have been hearing a lot of people talking about what governors want. You have not heard from governors. We gave you a democrat in virginia. Terry mcauliffe. 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Find your awesome with the xfinity x1 voice remote. I could tell you three members of my family, including me, that would be dead or homeless if it was not for aca. I am angry. An angry constituent. You work for us that was in february. One angry arkansas voter taking on senator tom cotton at a town hall. Now the republican controlled house voted to dismantle key parts of obamacare. Governors are used as a reason for many of the changes. This is what the governors asked us for. Now, what does that really mean . We have not heard from governors. We will hear from one right now. Arkansass governor asa hutchinson. Governor, thank you for joining us. I do not want to ignore a very pressing situation going on with flooding in your state right now. We know especially in northeastern reas northeastern regions theres a problem. How great is the need . I did a flyover yesterday and saw the flooding region. The water, thank goodness, is receding in parties. We had broken levees. It will impact our farm land and we will have significant damage. We will ask for a National Declaration down the road. Right now, it is all about recovery and saving property anand s lives. Thank you. The concern is real. We are here to get out the information as needed for what will be done to help those victimized in arkansas and elsewhere in the flood region. Lets use that as a pivot point to your job. Being governor is taking care of those in need. What do you say to your constituents in your state about what trumpcare, this bill just passed, means for them . Whenever we pass the bill in the house, yes need we need to d it is not the completion of the proper cys process. There needs to be more changes in the senate. What we have from the governors standpoint in arkansas is not manageable over the long term. We cannot afford the system. For example in arkansas and Medicaid Expansion, we estimate at 250,000 would be on the program. It is increase over 320,000. That is one of the things we started doing in our reform in arkansas. Asking for waivers from the federal government that we could not get under president obamas administration. There needs to be change. It started in the house yesterday. It gives us more flexibility to manage our Healt

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