Good, why dont they want their names on it . Can they shuffle . The chairman of the Democratic Caucus weighs in. And strike zone. What are the consequences of the new autonomy on drone strikes . This is mtp daily, and it starts right now. Good evening, im katy tur in a snowy new york. In for chuck todd today. Welcome to mtp daily. In politics, whats bigger than a promise from your president . They are backing a plan that could break those promises. So what now for the white house and the gop . Just moments ago, President Trump was scheduled to have a call with speaker of the house paul ryan and Majority Leader Kevin Mccarthy to plot a way forward amid the drama. And this afternoon, skeptical gop senators, including ted cruz are meeting at the white house to try and hammer out a compromise. Earlier today at the White House Press briefing sean spicer was pressed on this subject multiple times. Here is some of that exchange. President trump has said that under his plan there will be insurance for everybody. How do you square that with the cbo numbers andishat a promise he can keep . The cbo number, a record that doesnt matchup with the ability to count people. Pretty good at dollars, not as good as people. When you look at the additional phases or prongs of this whole comprehensive approach, that actually changes the equation a lot. Its looking at one piece of a threepart plan. Will the white house commit that after these phases two and three, if they are implemented, if they are offered publicly that there will be health care for everybody . If everyone who wants to get health care, the financial ability to get it is what the president is trying to achieve through this. And this is the system that will get them there. Tom cotton is dismissing it as mythical legislation. That will fail in the senate. Spicers comments today come amid a slew of promises that the white house has made about their health care plan. You heard one mentioned in that clip, just five days before taking office, President Trump vowed for Health Insurance with everybody. There was a philosophy that if you cant pay for it, you dont get it. It was a promise echoed by his Top White House aids. Those relying on coverage will not lose it. That promise stands . Yes, it does. But according to to the cbo, 24 Million People will lose coverage over a span of ten years under the White Housebacked plan. Heres another white house promise. I firmly believe that nobody will be worse off financially in the process that were going through. But according to to the cbo, premiums are going to spike 20 to 25 for Older Americans under the gop pl. Heres another white house promise. Youre going to stay on medicaid, covered on and employeesponsored plan, youre going to continue to be covered under the employeesponsored plan. It will drop and medicaid spending will decline by 880 billion. Im joined now by republican congressman kevin brady of texas who is the chairman of the very powerful house and means committee. Why are you standing by this plan . Because it delivers on our promise to give people Affordable Care thats personalized for them. Not for washington, and thats what cbo said. We also promised we are going to make sure americans arent murdered by the nearly 1 trillion of taxes on their jobs, on their Health Care Plans and on the economy. We also said restoring control out of washington, restoring it to the states and the individuals so they could choose a plan thats right for them, thats why this plan is so important and by the way, while we are doing it, americans have said we dont want to be forced into buying health care we cant forward and cant use. Confirm that in the report let me ask you about what the hold on. Cbo said next year when the obamacare stays just as it is today, medicaid just as it is today, 11 million americans who no longer are forced into health care are saying, thanks, but no thanks, i dont want to be there anymore. It confirms what americans can be saying all along. The. If its such a great plan, why would 24 Million People walk away from it . Ask the question why . Why theyd walk away from it. Reporter its the gop plan. Why are they walking away from dp. Exactly right. Or are they being forced out . No, maam, if youll let me answer your we, i will. Cbo had an answer for that question, why dont they want to be covered . And the sans they arent forced into buying health care they dont want, dont need, and cant use. The bulk of americans who wont be covered are because they choose not to be covered. Starting as early as next year. Who will be covered are those today, in fact, whove found a way to be exempted from obamacare and high premiums. Who with a personal credit they can use to take from job to job, state to state, home to start a business or raise a family. Choose a plan thats right for them, whether theyre very young or very old. Those are the americans who are going to have opportunity to have access that frankly they dont have today. 1700 for health care, under the gop plan, that person would be paying over 14,000 for health care. How is it affordable for that person . Well, under those assumptions it wouldnt be. Those assumptions arent good. Look cbo made its best faith effort to figure out who might or might not be covered. Thats a challenge. Even more challenging are the premiums because they only got look at one part of this picture. They didnt get ahance because of the way this bills Going Forward without phase two or phase three. Truly look at the low cost, innovative personalized plans that states can approve Going Forward. In seniors premiums skyrocketed according to this plan are going to skyrocket. Well and i respectfully disagree one part of the cbo and tout it and say its totally on the money. Talking about no, and i didnt say that. What i said was in your statement. Cbo had to estimate two major things. Coverage and premium costs. We think they had more information to be able to try to do their best on coverage. The premiums are very tough to assess and they will tell you, it is very difficult to get it right there. So, what im saying is, i think one is much more challenging for them to estimate and i still believe at the end daft day with the right tax credit to buy real Authentic Health care that we can help people of all ages get the health care they need and deserve. Lets talk about promises. In the gopbacked plan, everybody will not be insured. So how do you square that circle . Are House Republicans just not on the same page as president obama . Nowhere close. Every american who wants to have Health Care Getting a chance to do that. Whether youre at work through job, government program, but in this area, for those who dont get at work, oftentimes Small Business people and people work for Small Businesses as well as entrepreneurs and families between jobs, they will all have access to health care in a personal credit to buy the plan thats right for them. I believe he said specifically they would have health care period, not access bring on his promises. I dont remember him ever saying i think the president is delivering as well as republicans. No few youre looking for some kind of metric that says if government can force you into the most expensive plans with the most expensive subsidies and frankly you cant use it because the out of pocket costs are so high for seniors and others, frankly that, american publics already weighed in. They dont want that anymore. T abt the other prise that the president made . He wouldnt make cuts to entitlements, social security, medicare, medicaid, quite a bit of money is cut from medicaid in the gop plan. Well, and heres why. Because for the first time governors will have the choice to actually apply med daddy to their state, to design it for their communities, not the way washington wants to do it over time that does go against what the president promised. But that doesnt mean there is anything less than Higher Quality care. What it means is washington wont be telling governors you have to do it our way, because we know, theres a difference between manhattan, kansas, and manhattan, new york city, and nrk should be designed differently to reach families in those comment community. Kevin brady, thank you for joining us this afternoon. Thank you. Theres ban noticeable divide within the gop on how to handle the cbo score. Some are bashing the agencys credibility, others as you just saw are touting aspects of it at least. I think if you read this report, im encouraged by it and and exceeded my expectations. Which is does not do enough to drive down premiums. Im encouraged, this is only phase one of the three phases. People are going to have more choice. More people are going to be encouraged around the health care. And the health care they choose to have. We disagree with the report that was put out. We believe that our plan will cover more individuals a at lower cost and give them the choices that they want for the coverage that they want for themselves and for their family. Not that the Government Forces them to buy. Joining me now, democratic congressman joe crowley of new york. Hes the chairman of the house Democratic Caucus. Congressman, thank you for joining us. And left Democrats Holding the bag. Do you think he has a point to say that . I think enacting this bill would be worse than letting obamacare implode. The fact is wed have 24 Million People under the republican plan that would lose insurance over the next ten years. Thats catastrophic. But the law isnt working as democrats had promised it to work. You want to answer the phone . Its not mine. The law isnt working as it was certainly advertised. Keep the doctor that they wanted to keep. And, you know, theres been some issues with the courts. The law isnt working as it stands. What are the democrats going to do . Just fight for it until they cant fight for it any longer . Katy, interestingly enough, you mentioned the courts, the republicans brought the lawsuits. Democrats arent helping make our bill work . Well the reality is, they havent asked us for help. They never came to us do they need to come to you to ask . Hey listen, ive got an idea and let me propose something for this plan. Is that the way it works in congress and one has to ask nicely for help. Katy, typically when youre in the minority, you dont really have the ability to initiate, at least on the floor. Thats controlled by the republican majority. And when they were putting together their plan in the secret, in the darkroom and we were down looking for the bill, it was under lock and key with security guards. Capitol police guarding the room, we asked for an opportunity to review the bill. They denied it to us. Upon reading it, we realized just how bad the bill is and how the cbo score comes out, it was what we were saying all along. 24 million americans thats not a responsible answer. We to want make it better. We havent had a partner quite frankly we were in the minority then, but the republicans continuously for 60 votes, voted to repeal, without replacing, they never offered a plan to replace it. They scuttled together to try to figure out something in the very last minute here because they were under pressure. Its not even what President Trump has supported quite frankly. So, you know, were not going to apologize for people will suffer. Off point that the republicans spent eight years saying no to this bill and vowing to take it down. It sounds like the democrats are in much of the same position right now, vowing to take the Republican Health care bill down. You criticize them for not coming up with their own plan. Cant that same criticism be lobbed at you . Where is your plan to fix things . We believe, we believe that passing this bill you know, some of the issues surrounding the Affordable Care act. It would be worse to pass this bill. You know but why not come up with your own plan that says here is how we are going to fix it . And present it to the American People and say, hey listen, heres what were going to do, heres how we think question make it better. We want you to see our plan so you can go to your congressman if theyre republican or democrat. The reality is we have to work with the republican colleagues. If they ask us to come into the room. And right now, we went to a markup last week for a 19, 18 ways and means committee, the e energy and commerce committee. We tried. We offered memt aemts they were turned down over and over again. It was accepted by the republican side of the aisle. Take this as your opportunity to reach tout to your fellow republicans. What would you like to see this bill have . Look, what i would like to see is a bill that would pass, that would help all of us be able to afford insurance. Pass a bill that helps us really bend the cost curve. Keep those costs coming down. You know, the rate of insurance has gone up, but its gone up slower than any type in the past 20 years. We have to continue to help keep that cost down. We have make sure that whatever is passed, gives people more coverage for less costs. Thats our goal. Right now under the republican bill, it will cost more for them to get less. And thats simply unacceptable. If that happened, would the Democratic Caucus vote for that . We have said over and over again, repeatedly, ive said it. If they present a plan that covers more americans, that lowers the cost and gives them real comprehensive coverage, not fake coverage, we would support that. I will support that. And what if you were to go to the white house and the letter to the white house saying wed like to come up with a plan that meets your standards, President Trump, one of universal health care, one where you do not cut entitlements, how do you think thats going to be received . Have you tried that . Well, you know, the president has said that. He also said he wants to negotiate directly with the pharmaceutical industry on the price of prescription drugs, yet we dont have any of that in the bill. And he says he loves this bill. He loves this bill. It is not about universal coverage. Its not about making sure that every american who wants coverage will have coverage. Now theyre saying its about access. They tend to emphasize different words depending on the week were discussing this issue. The one thing we do know, this is a very, very, complicated issue. It was complicated seven years ago when we enacted this law. Its as complicated today and im glad the president is realizing that. Thank you, congressman crowley for joining us this afternoon. Coming up, well dig deeper into the republican rift on health care. And look at why no matter who wins, House Speaker paul ryan might still lose. Stay tuned. Dear predictable, theres no other way to say this. Its over. Ive found a permanent escape from monotony. Together, we are perfectly balanced. Our senses awake. Our hearts racing as one. I know this is sudden, but they say. If you love something set it free. See you around, giulia heres to the wildcats this i gotta try. Bendy. Spendy weekenders. 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