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These are our families that are being impacted, so let's please get it right. >> reporter: the number of gop senators currently opposed to the legislation has grown to six, with at least three others expressing concerns, leadership can only afford to lose two votes to pass the bill. >> my state is a medicaid extension state, and so we have a lot of issues. >> reporter: the cbo report also estimates that over the decade, the senate bill would reduce the national deficit by $321 billion. largely by slashing medicaid funding by $772 billion, leaving 15 million fewer americans covered under medica...

Whom weighed in late tonight. so a lot to get to, starting with phil mattingly. what else is in the cbo report? >> reporter: you start with that tom line number, anderson. you know it's important, particularly for moderate senator. several pointed to the coverage number before the cbo report released and said their vote may be contingent on that. 22 million fewer would have insurance over the course of a ten-year period. the senate bill takes a different approach than the house bill to try and address the house bill's coverage problems. the house bill had 23 million. the senate has a more robu...

Down economics, if people had more money in their pictuocket would spend it. i don't see a parallel between the tax cut for the wealthy resulting in more boom to our economy. unclear to me. >> the interesting thing about that particular way of looking at things, when you give tax cuts to people who live close to the bone, don't have a lot of income, that tends to get used in the economy, a dollar of a tax cut to somebody who is living close to the national average gets spent in the money. a dollar given to somebody at the top 1% doesn't have the same effect. >> that person close to the nationa...

The severity of this and then you leave the plolitical snark o sean spicer. they have this in reverse. it's totally upside down. >> jeremy bash, we appreciate your coming on this morning. we need to move now to health care and the cbo's assessment of the senate health care's plan that is making it that much harder for republicans to push it through. the nonpartisan group found that over the next decade 22 million people -- fewer people would be ensured compared to obamacare. and that deficit savings would largely come on the back of cuts in medicaid spending, $772 billion. of the 15 million pe...

>> reporter: the number of gop senators currently opposed to the legislation has grown to six, with at least three others expressing concerns. leadership can only afford to lose two votes to pass the bill. >> my state is medicare expansion state, and so we have a lot of issues. >> reporter: the cbo report also estimates that over the decade the senate bill would reduce the national deficit by $321 billion, largely by slashing medicaid funding by $772 billion, leaving 15 million fewer americans covered under medicaid, hitting older and lower income enrollees the hardest, while providing a $541 ...