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Welcome to fox news sunday. Is this latest effort to replace obamacare helping . We are days away from a final vote, and were trying to win over the alaskan senators to get there. As you know, theres no democrat support for it. The last time in the senate the vote of 52, we need 49. All 48 democrats oppose. We need to make sure these last couple of republicans are john mccain, lisa murkowski, Susan Collins, and rand paul. That is a victory. Chris john mccain is unknown. Are you expecting rand paul is a no . With rand paul, he has very particular on health care. We want hit support, because when else would he get the opportunity to vote on a bill that actually provides real entitlement reform . When will be get a chance that doubles the ability to double to your Health Savings account. When we get rid of the individual, employer mandate, and those are things that are important to rand paul. This administration stood for life, in this per protects life. He can say it, i protect life and instead, i went the other way. Chris rand paul has made it clear, he wants to repeal obamacare. He says the bill doesnt leave a lot of obamacare including all of the taxes in place. He calls it obamacarelite. The support that rand paul has given, we support as well. There was a vote on a simple repeal measure that failed 4555. The president said he would have supported it, but our choices are to continue obamacare, continue crushing the American People with higher premiums, less coverage, what is the option of a new path . You have covered the amount of rate increase arizona, alaska 200 . Half the country has one insurance left. Next year, it is always delayed. An extra, new taxes will be in place, everybody who has a Health Care Plan gets another tax added on. Chris lets assume they mean what they say, and john mccain and paul are nos. Theres a number that are committing like Susan Collins, and heres what President Trump said on friday. The most will be our art one or two votes. You cannot quit when you have one or two votes. They will not be liked by the communities they come from. Chris you have one week left. You have until next saturday. Are you going to change the bill to try to persuade some of these uncommitted to come back, and if so, how will you specifically change at the bell the last few days. Legal we have continued to talk to various senators but ways to refine the formula. We have to do is take dollars out of washington, d. C. , and sending it out to the states. How each state gets those resources is trying to protect that for me. We will to continue to have conversations with Susan Makowski to make it has proven to be a disaster. We want to look back to the states, which is why we think every state is a winner, including maine, alaska, because their governments have the ability chris 34 states get less money than they currently get about 13 or 14 get more. I want to go to the merits of the bill. Latenight tv house jimmy kimmel has been a big part of this debate. After he talked about the fact that his son needed major heart surgery. He said one of the bills sponsors, the grahamcassidy bill. Cassidy is misleading what is in the bill. Here he is. He says he wants coverage for all, no discrimination based on preexisting conditions. Lower premiums for lower class families, and no lifetime caps. Guess what, the new bill does none of those things. Chris marc . Grahamcassidy does none of those things. No, bill cassidy is of dr. Become his wife is a doctor, they know how they structured this. Bill cassidy is exactly right. His chris, it is not a level plg field. Chris 34 states. Florida and texas get less than 10 . It is not equitable now, chris because states are very few to expand medicaid paired that was a decision. 34 states will lose money. That is not accurate. When you actually distribute the dollars, based on population, do our states that the obamacare already made winner or losers. We are leveling out the playing field. That is not what i am saying here. Chris they are getting less money than they would have from obamacare and the reason they are going to get less is because is not that obamacare chose winners and losers, it was at the state chose. They decide whether to go going with obamacare or not. I want to press on this point of preexisting conditions. The republican bill says states can get away, put it up on the screen. States can get away from obamacare protections if they explained to federal bureaucrats how the states will maintain access, and a key phrase, adequate and Affordable HealthInsurance Coverage for individuals with preexisting conditions without ever explaining what adequate and affordable coverage is. In the very next page, the grahamcassidy bill says, yes, states can increase premiums for people with preexisting conditions. That is a loophole large enough to drive a tank through. Those are two separate questions. Do you want washington, d. C. , choosing all the rates across the country. That is a different question. The bill guarantees preexisting conditions. Chris it does not. It says that all they have to do is get a federal waiver it that they have adequate and affordable coverage without explaining what that is. That is not a guarantee. Adequate and affordable coverage will be guaranteed. Its built what does it mean when a state can raise premiums . That is a separate question. You want washington, d. C. , dictating across the country what those rates are for everybody regardless chris what good is coverage if you cannot afford it . Because you are having support to the state so they can make sure those states have rates stay low. Even those with preexisting conditions. We went chris it says states can raise premiums for preexisting conditions without any guidelines. If there is no question that is going to be higher in some states than it was under obamacare. Darr going to be some states higher, some states lawyer. Give states that are higher, youre out of luck. The vast majority of americans are going to benefit from having lower cost. Does that mean every individual has a lower premium. That is not what washington, d. C. , is doing. Chris i am going to switch to another subject. Congressional republicans are rolling out your tax reform plan this week. I want to ask you about two specific items. Senate republicans have agreed to a tax cut that would amount to 1. 5 trillion in lost revenut three years. What happened to the party a balanced budget . It is in the white house. To bounce over ten years. This administration continues to be committed to making sure youre being fiscally responsible. Chris a tax cut that adds 1. 5 trillion to the National Debt . It allows for a shortterm decrease in order to provide growth will bring in more in the long term. Theres a large debate between scoring. The dynamic scoring will show much more of significant growth, but thats what not not congress uses. Luppercaseletter for that the short term. We want to see the economy grow it has been struggling for way too long. We need to turn it around. Were going to go by turning away the regulatory states, and we will seat the economy grow with rates. Chris the president also said coming wants to cut the taxes in the middle class, not necessarily those for the wealthy, but there is a new report out this month that this plan is going to cut the top rate for 35 why do those of the very top need another tax break . We do not think they do. The president is focused on a tax break. Chris argued cutting the tax write . When you have all the inductions at the wealthy take advantage of. Our tax code picks winners and losers. By getting rid of those deductions, people at the higher income will have to pay more taxes. Therefore, we are lowering the rate in the inductions were getting rid of. Chris 35 . There still to be made with the final numbers. Chris i want to ask you about this racial controversy the president has gotten into this weekend. I was at the friday rally, where the president went after players like collin kaepernick, who take on the during the National Anthem to protest the Race Relations in the country. What you love to see one of these nfl owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, get that son of a [bleep] off our field. He is fired. He is fired chris and the the president pulled back an invitation for mba when they win a championship , and lebron james treated this. You will come a bum. Stefon curry already said he is not going, so therefore, there is no invite. Going to white house was great honor until you showed up. Does the present regret opening the racial wounds after trussville . I dont think he is. There are two separate issues all across america nfl players are getting punished for leaving their players and prayer. Asking and then the nfl call players who take a knee over a flag that many of our generations proceeded died to pick the freedoms based on martyrs on the media. They have a First Amendment right to do that, but nfl owners also have a rectifier those players. Happily, lets talk about the curry invitation. He already hosted the cubs, boston tigers, patriots. Steph curry is a phenomenal basketball player. Hes a role model for young kids. My son wears his jersey around the house all the time. He went to a small school when schools overlook them. Chris hes one of the best n the nba, but he put politics into the invitation to come to the white house. Thats what the president reacting to. Other National Champion teams have come honorably. Theyre trying to make a political issue. The president said, find it. Do not come. Chris this obviously has a racial component. These are black players talking about these are black players talking about the state of Race Relations in the country. They are not burning flags. Theyre not chanting. Theyre simply taking a knee. You can argue whether or not is the right or wrong thing to do. Their way to show your reaction without having to do senator flake. I think the president is making the case saying that there are plenty of africanamerican athletes that he welcomes to the white house. Those are the ones who want to make a political issue out of. Chris i want to put up one more tweets. This is from the president and a 2013. Lets put up on the screen. This was the controversy with the Washington Redskins. So, at a time when youre trying desperately to get votes for health care, at a time when youre rolling out your tax reform, does the president really need to get into a fight with lebron james and steph curry . We have a lot of priorities. It is not just health care, a lot of Foreign Policy issues. I think the president s focus on these issues and continue to make sure the white house is. Chris should he take his own advice that he did to barack obama . I think you should decide what he is tweeting. Theres a lot of people in america that condemns the president s tweets, but they have proven effective so far. Chris marc short, thank you for joining us. I appreciate it. Chris will bring our sunday group to discuss the fate of repeal and replace. More controversy that the president stirred up over players kneeling during the National Anthem. Listen up, heart disease. You too, unnecessary er visits. And hey, unmanaged depression, dont get too comfortable. Were talking to you, cost inefficiencies, and data without insights. And fragmented care, stop getting in the way of patient recovery and pay attention. Every single one of you is on our list. 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Opening of the racial controversy since we have seen in charlottesville. Mr. Trump has kept at it. This is what he tweeted. If nfl fans refuse to go to games until players stop disrespecting our flag and country, you will see changes take place fast. Fire or suspend. Where is is headed . You will see more protests today as we go into the nba season, i would not be surprised if there will be some kind of expression there. I am not only going to say from players but from fans who recently in boston, somebody hung a banner that said racism is as american as baseball. It is up platform for the discussion of race in the country. Of course, the owners have the right to fire or not higher in the case of kaepernick, however they choose, but for the president of the united state to speak up about firing an espn anchor, now about an nfl player, to diss invite steph curry, it seems to me he is now injecting himself in sports in a way that we have not seen recently. We know about Mohammed Muhammad that just are made by kaepernick is not popular. He can be affective to a group that thinks kaepernick is wrong. I think that kaepernick is disrespecting the fight for it is not something i would do. But his right and the fact that he is speaking out about something of substance and terms of the relationship between police and the black community, the black lives matter movement. It seems to me that strikes a chord with people while trump is playing politics in a way that i think is very divisive. It hurts especially after charlottesville. Chris i think it is fair to say that mr. Trump has gotten some of his lowest ratings in public polls in his handling of Race Relations during a time that he is pushing it desperately needs to get a win this week on health care, when he will roll out his new tax plan. Does he really need to have this . This was not the best time to have the fight. He has health care he has to focus on tax reform. We have been seen, he is out there doing this push for tax reform in particular, importance of the role of the president keeping an american in the country focused on the spaghetti behind republican hungers and doing it. That being said , i dont think this is President Trump talking about race. This is an issue, 7030 issue. Americans do not like to see people kneeling and disrespecting the flag. Hes talking about this in terms of the flag. Chris we are talking about black players making a statement about black and Race Relations in this country. It is a race issue. Except, many more people think as disrespecting the flag. Yes, i get the racial issue, but as marc short said earlier, either other ways you can voice your disapproval with the racial diss racial issue, but the people empowered to dont. Chris people who are protesting, what is a right way to go . I am not saying they do not have a right to do it, but the fans are not obliged to like it. And go to the games. And watch tv. The president has two very valuable assets, time invoice and voice. He wastes things when he talks about things like this. We had an argument over will melt in this fight much to his disadvantage. He is in big demand the middle of two fights. There better ways for the president. I was struck by a line in his in new york last week. At the u. N. He said we aspire to the approval of history. What instead of swearing at them, he said, i understand that you have a right to do this, but we stand and respect our flag, not because of americas imperfections, but because youre constantly as a nation aspiring to the approval of history. We salute the flag, because the struggles and the sacrifices of generations of americans to make this a better country. That is why we stand and salute our flag and why we put our hand over our heart. He could have come away the winter. Instead, he is walking away from this loser in the minds of the American People for exactly the reasons you pointed out. He was against the federal government interfering and telling the Washington Redskins what their name should be. Now he is sane, fire those people if they do not stand and respect the flag. He ought to be an aspirational figure. Chris lets talk about health care, which is the real focus is seems to me, and the president stepping on his own message here. Heres what the president said friday night about john mccain delivering a real blow to this bill, saying, he will not vote for. John mccain, you look at his campaign, his last campaign, was all about repeal and repla