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What are you hearing from your constituents? what do they want to see happen? >> well, people really just want to figure out how are we going to control costs. i hear again and again and again people don't want to roll back coverage. almost everybody knows somebody who's got a disability or chronic illness. a lot of these people, they're not just in cities, they're rural areas, in the suburbs, and i think what we're getting to and i think senator alexander and senator murray are working on a bipartisan bill which is a lot of what us bipartisan governors have been recommending to really figure ...

Aswag lisa murkowski's concern. >> former president, obama, weighed in on the health care bill. >> reporter: this is the corner stone achievement of president obama's eight years. there's no shortage of frustration, listen. >> when i see people trying to undo that progress for the 50th or 60th time with bills that would roll back coverage, raise costs, the cancer survivor, expecting mom or child with autism or asthma, for whom coverage once again would be almost unatinable, it is aggravating. >> it's frustration and attack osthese efforts you're hearing from democrats rights now. this is impor...

Senator murray's committee was clearly making progress, five governors who testified a couple of weeks ago, three republicans and two democrats and the questions from both republicans and democrats to the governors were piercing. they were focused but not critical. everyone there trying to understand stability to the private market, to really focusing on what kind of reinsurance fund would really work so we don't have a small number of -- tilting cost of insurance for everyone way up. those solutions seem to have pretty bipartisan support. when senator mccain talked about coming back to regula...

A high probability it's going to roll back coverage and shift costs to the states. >> what are you most concerned though about this specific bill? why are you a definite know on this? >> certainly from the point of view of colorado, it's $800 million a year, maybe a billion a year of additional cost for the status quo, but on a larger scale, it's almost like groundhog day, going back to all of the republicans to focus on trying to get one big without any bipartisan support done so they can check, we've got a political victory. >> do you think this is more about a political victory than it is a...

Congress. if it comes to a government shut doup, do democrats stand to benefit politically? >> oh, i don't know. i don't even -- you know, i worry about that kind of -- that hyperbole. i mean, i think it's very unlikely it's going to happen. probably they would benefit, but i think the focus is we should be trying to do, whether we're democrats or republicans, trying to do what we can to keep moving the ball down the road and find that -- those places where we can find agreement. i mean, while we're squaulk in washington, the world is moving forward, right. >> yeah. >> and we've got to continu...