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Major changes are made, if this -- the concerns about the coverage numbers are not assuaged at any point. that more than anything else why you see republican leaders telling the white house, look, you need to stay unified with us, you can't freelance because those are the members that in the end they believe will be the hardest to bring around. >> phil mattingly, thanks. back with the panel. you have to white house pushing back on the cbo report but only kind of part of it, embracing other aspects. >> they like the deficit reduction part of it because it reduces the deficit $337 billion over t...

>> phil mattingly, thanks. joining us is david walker, former head of the government accountability office. let me start with you. what do you make of how this is all playing out and particularly how the white house, they're blasting the cbo report except for the parts that they like. >> the fact of the matter is the cbo is the honest broker. they're the ones who keep the score, while they do a better job of estimating the financial impact, you've got to make estimates on how many will be covered in order to do the financial impact. the good news is you'll reduce the deficit, $337 billion over...

Part of it they embraced. >> they like the deficit reduction part of it because it reduces a deficit $337 billion over 10 years. much comes with cut backs in medicate. that's what the moderates are upset about. i have to ask a question after listening to phil. if you are a republican house moderate, why would you go out on a limb and vote for this bill if you know it's going to get changed in the senate and then you will be on the record voting for something ha is unpopular in your district and mitch mcconnell said this is not going to be the final bill. unless they can get together on what th...

>> you don't even have the president in your corner on this. he says he would keep everybody with coverage. that's what he said. and that is not what you're doing in this plan. maybe that's why we're not hearing more from the president directly about this. usually he argues right to the people about what he thinks they should do. he said this was going to be great cbo score. certainly doesn't show that. >> well tcbo score does show $337 billion of savings. >> you're putting less money into it. there's no question about that. the cbo and you're hearing from republicans as well, you're getting c...

Phil mattingly has the latest. let's talk about the headlines from the report. >> start with the context. republican aides knew this was not going to be a great number. they did not know it was going to be this bad. and you hit the top lines. 14 million uninsured after the first year. by 2026 that number jumps up to 24 million. those are huge issues right now. they knew it was going to be a bad number. they knew the numbers wouldn't match up with obama care, but that's a real number with real policy repercussions. on the positive for republicans. there's a $337 billion decrease in the budget b...