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Be left with no coverage after the president promised there would be healthcare for everyone. even though he admitted it was not a very republican thing to say, as he put it. now our capitol hill team reports there's news. there's about to be a big meeting. amendments to the bill may be in the works. president trump, the house speaker, paul ryan and kevin mccarthy are scheduled for a phone conference less than an hour from now. they need a way to unite the party because democrats are in lock step against this bill. the president says he's proud of it, but the congressional budget office brough...

Bill. looks improbable. >> jon: they say it will save $337 billion. you can buy a lot of healthcare with that. >> i would say that -- the house republicans, democrats are saying this is a tax cut. the house republicans love those numbers. internally the real problem that we're seeing down the road here is that there's the house and senate are completely divided. even in the republican leadership. there's divisions. the house freedom caucus is pushing outside consumer groups are pushing the senate to blow up their rules. they say they are hiding behind their own senate rule and overturn the par...

Plan, guess what? people won't buy that. >> the cbo score wasn't all bleak. the plan would lower the federal deficit by estimate $337 billion over ten years. the score is putting republicans on the defensive. emboldening democrats who smell blood in the water for 2018. cnn's phil mattingly has the latest. >> reporter: christine and dave. republicans knew it would be bad, but not this bad. 14 million uninsured by 2018. 24 million uninsured over the course of ten-year period. that is according to the congressional budget office. that is creating a problem the republican party was not already uni...

I don't think people can drop their insurance policies because they choose to do so and if people would drop the insurance for their families, it's because they can't afford it and not because they choose to. if you have $337 billion worth of savings, some of that should be invested to pick sure you don't get a huge drop off. right now do you. one of the things i have a major problem with, when people look at the plan, you argue, i don't believe this number. when you have good things -- you can't cherry-pick and you have to take the whole plan. the premiums are coming down by 2026, but that do...

Does, when you have competition in any industry. what happens? they fall. >> here's what republicans like about this, $337 billion savings by 2026. they like that figure, but at what cost? >> sure. >> of this savings. >> we're about half of the savings comes from the wealthy, from the affluent. we cut their taxes, and then guess what, a lot of people who are poor or not affluent, lose their insurance. is that really what the republicans want to go to the can't with. i don't think they can cure it rhetorically, if they have additional plans like medical savings accounts. bring them on. >> let's...