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Work on this. if you're a democrat you're hoping that you're still nine votes short and that this fails and that we still have the affordable care act as pretty much the law of the land. >> which is what president trump has said will happen. by the way, this is not about the changes made last night, it's about the last set of changes. interesting result. it shows basically no change in the number of people who will have coverage versus the first draft but less of an impact on the deficit. in fact, less of a reduction in the deficit. in the original bill, $337 billion deficit reduction in this ...

Bill that would reduce the federal deficit by $337 billion over the next 10 years. the democrats pouncing on the fact that 23 million people will be uninsured under the republican plan. what should we make of the numbers? douglas was the director of the congressional budget office under president george w. bush. he is now the president of the american action form. welcome it is good to see you. >> thank you. >> paul: let's step back before we get into details. for a lot of viewers who do not understand what the role is, i think they wonder, why should they determine policy and why they so impo...

Alluded in his priority private meetings about, again, negotiating. again, you talk to some of these prominent tea party members and they have concerns about how this institutionalizes some of the taxes, such as the cadillac tax. so when you look at the nonpartisan congressional budget report, republicans like the fact this is going to create a $337 billion offset to the budget. they don't like the fact this would, in the first year, cause 14 million americans to lose their health insurance. this is the time for vice president mike pence, as well as the apparatus surrounding him, to get to wor...

Policy standpoint there's stuff in the legislation the white house likes considering the fact that the nonpartisan congressional budget office will return $337 billion to the government. there's also a lot that folks don't like, people like senator dean heller a moderate came out against it and said wait a minute, 14 million americans could lose health insurance within the first year. this is a tight, tight tricky issue for this president that he's going to have to play political referee on. >> susan, how does the gop get this past? what can they do. >> step by step. if they can get it to the ...

This is before we get to phase two or phase three. >> heather: some of what he is talking about in that cbo report although the good part of it said that $337 billion in a reduction in the federal deficit over the next 10 years but it predicted that 24 million fewer people would have coverage for a decade from now if the aca stays intact. uninsured jump to 14 million after the first year a lot of those on medicaid. >> offer more choice. catastrophic options. maybe more young people will buy. in 45% right now are taking the penalty. in terms of medicaid, i want to keep the expansion. i would li...