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>> look for more money. it's critically important. we have done some research, not only for medicaid, it covers more than 70 million low income americans, four in ten american children, 50% of children born in the united states. 10 million americans depend on medicaid that provides additional treatment all around. the senate bill will reduce to growth of medicate over 10 years by $772 billion. what would it take for you to go ahead and say that i can live with a reduction in medicaid spending, how much would they have to improve that? >> i don't have a dollar figure

Issue like health care. >> do you agree? >> i think infrastructure will be something we can join together in, i can see why she's saying that, i thought yesterday the president was very engaged in, because i think he realized how different the factions are within our conference. and i think what we decided was if we put more money into the program to help people at the lower end of the spectrum. >> your republican colleagues don't want to put more money. they want to save money. >> he promised repeatedly during the campaign, there would be no cuts to social security, no cuts to medicaid, didn'...

Want an easier phaseout or fewer cuts or reductions in spending in the program. $772 billion would be removed over the course of ten years through this bill on medicaid. on the other side of the spectrum, you have conservatives who want to significantly ratchet back the regulations that are included in the affordable care act. kate, what that means is they want to go after the regulations that in some cases protect pre-existing conditions or protect the price protections for pre-existing conditions. you have two groups of senators on the opposite sides of the spectrum with ideas and plans and ...

Medicare cuts choose between five days of school or four days of school. you have a child special needs you have to worry what you're going to do with that child because of medicaid cuts. you have to worry about hey do i get the castro pullout cuts for grandpa coming home from the nursing home, and that's state after state after state. >> i go with the convertible. >> better than the castro? >> but we're quibbling over details here. >> i have one in my rooms. >> very nice. kasie hunt, how this could be pulled together for republicans or maybe it can't. you tell us. dean heller, susan collins a...

There's damage to the tree. people don't want to damage the tree. they want everything. they want to be able to say obamacare's gone but they want to have the coverage and they want to have the rules that they like like no preexisting conditions gets you coverage. how do you pull that all together? mcconnell is a legislative wizard but we haven't seen a lot of magic. >> 17 americans approve of this plan, so what are these senate republicans do? >> only slighter lower than donald trump's own approval rating. >> he would say to you who cares what polls say. i'm the winner look at the special ele...