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Jealous he doesn't own his own romper. ainsley: trying to talk the guys into to wear one of those. brian: like 1920 beach wear. steve: have yoentertained the ie should wear one of those on friday? brian: i don't think so. yesterday we had a chance late in the afternoon. just as the cbo was coming out to visit the speaker of the house. he invited us down to washington so hopped on a plane, went down there, and here's part one of our two-part interview with speaker paul ryan. >> mr. speaker, while you were in your series of meetings, the cbo came out with a score. you ne knew it was coming out ...

>> reporter: the number of gop senators currently opposed to the legislation has grown to six, with at least three others expressing concerns. leadership can only afford to lose two votes to pass the bill. >> my state is medicare expansion state, and so we have a lot of issues. >> reporter: the cbo report also estimates that over the decade the senate bill would reduce the national deficit by $321 billion, largely by slashing medicaid funding by $772 billion, leaving 15 million fewer americans covered under medicaid, hitting older and lower income enrollees the hardest, while providing a $541 ...

Used to advise the trump campaign and andy slaft, once the acting administrator for the centers for medicare and medicaid services, he managed the affordable care act in the obama white house. you guys are numbers guys so let me throw a few out there. we have the cbo score that came out yesterday. 22 million more americans, it says, will not have health care in the next decade under the current senate plan versus what is current law, obamacare. also said $321 billion will be reduced from the deficit. so conservatives like to hear that number. but steven, one of the big questions is how is this...

3 $321 billion the deficit reduction in this bill. the house bill has a baseline of about $133 billion. the senate has to at least match that. so they have matched that about they have about $220 billion to work with. when you look at moderates who are concerned how deeply this bill comes back on things like medicaid, mitch mcconnell has a pot of money to work with. but as is always the case here, there's a push and a pull. if you start spending such of that money on say opioid recovery grants, you have conservatives who are concerned about the spending and the medicaid phaseout as is. they mi...

Rescues enough americans? >> well, it clearly takes the mandates they are living under. there are 19 million americans who chose not to subscribe to or pay the individual or to adhere to the mandate. they pay the penalty, 6 million pay the penalty or fine for not getting insurance. 13 million found ways to get waivers and ways around it. there are a lot of mandates the american people were asking to be rescued from. if you look at the impact of what this has had, even those able to get insurance, the premiums are going through the roof. they have doubled in the last four years and you have ded...