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Uninsured. remember, candidate trump saying no cuts to medicaid. well, that program sees $772 billion of cuts over the next ten years. democrats expected on the senate floor to protest the bill later this hour and plan to go way into the night. it's not only democrats. one prominent republican senator said about 22 million potentially losing insurance. >> obviously it's not good news. so there will have to be a factor. >> are you against it? >> it's too early. >> even before the cbo score, at least five republicans opposing a bill meaning it is dead in the current form. president trump taking ...

The senate republican health care bill. senate democrats planning to protest the bill deep into the night. late today the congressional budget office predicting it will cause 22 million people to lose health care by 2026. the cbo finding medicaid spending will be cut by $772 billion by 2026. this weekend before that projection came out trump adviser kellyanne conway saying this about whether it cuts medicaid spending. >> these are not cuts for medicaid. it slows the rate. it allows governors more flexibility with medicaid dollars. you keep calling them cuts but we don't see them as cuts. getti...

More every year. >> this really sticks the knife in all these republican governors especially all over the midwest people like john kasich, people like rick snyder, my home state of michigan. people who have taken the medicaid expansion, gotten the folks in their states who are working class, lower working class. they're expecting to be on medicaid and they're not going to pull the rug out from under neems and what's going to happen is they're going to force the governors to have to make choices inside their own state budgets. so the governors have to take medicaid away from people or they hav...

But this is an issue for the entire party. it's not about just the president and it's not just about mitch mcconnell or the house. it is about all republicans. it's what do we stand for. do we stand for reforming an entitlement, the first chance we've ever had to really reform an entitlement, $772 billion over 10 years. this is our option to do that. get people better health care options and better outcomes for them, and this is the moment to do it. we campaigned on it. we've got to do it now. >> just add one thing to what kevin said. yeah, what confidence do republican senators have to believ...

Which i happen to like, being part of the bill, is that going to help with some of the conservatives? >> yeah, you've already started to see senator cruz who had been calling this obama care light, start to come on, ron johnson from wisconsin, maybe mike lee from utah. so it is starting to assuage them. they have sort of given up some of their reservations about this bill. as you said, it is not root and branch reform, but it is a net improvement and directional progress. >> but you think it's actually a pretty important reform? >> i think it is pretty important reform. what james is talking a...