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>> herman: i hate to say but i am starting to agree with rand paul. i hate to say it. the mess they have now is nothing like the train wreck if they eek this out and send it back to the house through the freedom caucuses that were not going to prove it. >> eric: i saw an interview with dave bratt, freedom caucuses member. professor, knows his numbers. neil cavuto asked him, if you get this bill that come are you okay. are you okay with holding your nose and agreeing to this massive investment tax? he said yeah, i can do that. what goes on? you get to d.c. and your principles and values go off ...

Me views and there has been a vigorous exchange. >> is one fix and would it be enough, eliminating the tax cuts on the wealthy and using that money to restore the medicaid cuts? >> it certainly would be a step in the right direction to not repeal that 3.8% increase in taxes that -- on investment income that was passed as a part of the affordable care act. that is worth something like $172 billion and if that were plowed back into the healthcare system that would make a difference. i want to distinguish that there are two kinds of taxes in the affordable care act, some of them such as the tax o...

Republicans want to to eliminate them, they should do so with broader reform and changes in the tax code, anything but medicaid cuts for the poor. paying for a massive tax cut for the wealthy with cuts to health care for the most vulnerable americans is morally reprehensible. again, i'm not quoting paul krugman here. i'm quoting former speech writer for george w. bush. what do you say to that critique? >> that could have been a quote from members within our own conference, me included. it's one of the areas that we've discussed making changes on. i do give the leadership a lot of credit becaus...

Era tax, we would have $172 billion available that we could reapply back in to perhaps fix some of the issues that have been of concern to people around the country. so i think that's on the table. >> interesting. >> and one of the items we share here -- i give leadership a lot of credit. if we hadn't scored that and laid that out separately, we wouldn't know how much we have going forward. it's one more bit of information that's very important to the senate. that's what this is about. this is policy driven. we really want this to be a good policy change for a lot of people out there. that's w...

Over 50 employees right now. they have already had to insure their ploirsz or pay that penalty. if that happens and obamacare is repealed, the small business owners are not going to go back and say, you know, just kidding, we're not going to insure you anymore. the employers would have massive uprising and go to bigger corptions who can afford to pay competitive benefits. hopefully this does provide big texas cuts to business owners. some of it is already so entangled and entrenched it's hard to get out from under it. steve: heather, i think you touched on it earlier the man democrats. if you ...