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Here, katy. and look, this is really a fundamentally a dins of priorities. and so you're seeing them on your screen there. 24 million more uninsured people by 2026, yes, the deficit would go down $337 billion, but when you break down where that's coming from, basically they're saving $1.2 trillion here by cutting medicaid by $880 billion and combining that with cults to those subsidies that people who fall into that gap, they don't -- they're not poor enough to qualify for medicaid. they make too much money to afford health insurance. the government currely helps them out to the tune of about ...

We're back with democratic congressman jim himes. the nonpartisan congressional budget office released its analysis the republican plan to replace obamacare. it says it would result in 24 million more people here in the united states becoming uninsured over the next decade while slashing $337 billion from the federal deficit. much more on that coming up. but first today is also the deadline for evidence of president trump's claim that he was wiretapped by president obama. our senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny is joining us. jeff, the house and senate intelligence committees, they've...

Will seize on the number phil was talking about a second ago. $337 billion in deficit savings. they believe that that is a good step forward here. they believe that that could help get some of the outside conservative groups more in line on board with this. but the question here is, how does the white house address the ceo? the cbo. you did not hear either the secretary or omb say they were not believable. they did not attack the cbo per se. that is because the head of the cbo, keith hall, was appointed by secretary price as phil was saying right there. the white house is still going to make a...

>> they are. when they looked at obamacare, they saw that obamacare put healthy people and sick people in the same insurance pool and told them to pay the seem premium. that's why premiums doubled. 5% used 50% healthcare. so individuals that were healthy paid their premiums, never met their deductibles because all the money was going to the small number of very sick people. they ignored the impact of that rule under obamacare and they're ignoring the fix for it in this bill. >> this is a politically very important report that we've just got here. i'm going to take a moment to repeat the three ...

The republican plan. the effects on the federal budget. g.o.p. bill would reduce federal deficits by $337 billion over 2017 to 2026. largest cost comes from repealing many of the tax increases in fees under obamacare. revenues would be reduced by $0.9 trillion. these are the numbers democrats are jumping on. 2018, 14 more -- 14 million more people would be uninsured. 2020, goes to 21 million. 2026, 24 million more uninsured. you have a lot of numbers there. cbo report affect on premiums. 2018 and 2019, this bill would tend to increase the average premiums in the nongroup market. average premiu...