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10%. >> and house speaker paul ryan describing this as good news. >> actually, i think if you read the entire report, i'm encouraged by it. it exceeded my expectations. we are saying the government is not forcing people to buy something they don't want to buy. if we end the mandate, guess what, people won't buy that. >> the cbo score wasn't all bleak for republicans. the appeared plan would lower the deficit by $337 billion over ten years. the score is putting republicans on the defensive and emboldening democrats for 2018. cnn's phil mattingly has the latest. >> reporter: republicans knew the...

He knows a lot about music. steve: spent a lot of time on the bus. republicans wanted to wait until the congressional budget office scored repeal and replace plan. although not repeal her say. >> yeah. steve: good news it would save $337 billion over 10 years, cut the deficit but the other headline 14 million americans next year would be kicked off of health care. the politics of that not really good. >> i think what, i know newt gingrich blasted the cbo. i think he makes some great points. i have a slightly different take though on this. the narrative is so important and it's critical that re...

Joins us now. let's talk more about the headlines first of all from the report. >> anderson, start with the context. republican aides knew it was not going to be a great number. they did not know it was going to be this. you hit the top lines. 14 million uninsured after the first year. by 2026, that number jumped to 24 million. those are huge issues right now. they knew it was going to be a bad number. they knew the numbers weren't going to match up perfectly well with obamacare that is a big number with very real political repercussions and very real policy repercussions. now on the positive ...

They still have big problems. it needed fixing. now you have 52 million. the numbers are daunting, abby. but can anybody be surprised? if you're cutting the amount of money that the individual gets, whether you call it a subsidy or tax credit, if you cut the amount of money that goes into medicaid, whether you pass it on to the states or not, you're going to have less people getting covered, because the money won't be there. >> that's right pip mean, this bill is designed to sort of thread this needle between being too expensive and doing what it's supposed to do, which is stabilize the insura...

Conservative republicans like about this plan, the $337 billion in savings that will go to the deficit. so there's not a lot of wiggle room where they can make conservatives happy without alien netting others. >> shepard: there's a few things they could do. not everybody would be happy about it. they save about $900 billion with the new plan. but they aid in about $650 billion in tax cuts, largely for wealthier americans. they could eliminate some of those tax cuts. >> that would eat away at the deficit -- the savings in this bill. that would upset conservatives. it would perhaps mitigate the ...