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Trying to get to some of our members today. i know tomorrow macarthur is doing the same thing, trying to really thread the needle. you're talking about a waiver. if a governor of new jersey wants to keep obamacare just like it is with the very few exceptions that were in the base bill, they can do that. but a governor of another state, whether it be texas, nebraska or florida, can waive out of some of those things that drive up premiums. it's the best of both worlds. it's a compromise. it's not a perfect bill. it doesn't fully repeal it. in talking with the senators in the upper chamber, some ...

Them gone and some people wanted them kept? where are you now with those? >> i think that's one of the objects under discussion. look, i'm for giving governors more flexibility in states. i'm for all of that. that was a big part of medicaid reforms tackled in the bill and giving governors flexibility of block grant, capital allotment, threading the needle between medicaid expansion states and medicaid nonexpansion states. so all of that was very important groundwork, which was done in the base bill. i have not had a lot of governor's offices calling and asking for waiver for essential health b...

Obamacare, let the states do what they wish. >> we have to do what the voters sent us here to do and that's to repeal it and replace it. >> what do you say to them? they say anything short of 100% repeal is a nonstarters. i know you, for example, want to keep some of the popular parts of obamacare, like allowing adult children to stay on their parents' plan. they are republicans you just heard. they say no. >> you know, last year we put a bill on the president's desk to repeal obamacare. it passed with all the republicans supporting it, the house and the senate, the president at that time, pre...

Because of the one out of ten brave souls who did report these cases, 62% were retaliated against. so you have a culture, and unfortunately a climate within our military where there's too much fear to be able to seek justice and it's so broken. even the commandant of the marine corps says the reason they don't report these cases is they don't trust us they don't trust the chain of command. >> there has been some reform. what are some of the reforms -- what has been done recently? >> as chair of the personnel subcommittee, we moved forward into the base bill a lot of reforms that will make a di...

Already been passed through the committee into the base bill. every woman in the senate feels passionately about this. and together we have elevated the issue. we actually are -- it is a number one national issue across the country. so women's voices matter and that's why i spend so much of my time politically asking women to participate, to vote, to be add voluntary cats and then help women get elected. they bring a life experience, that sensibility, that extra emotional intelligence to an issue where they may see a different part of the solution and that combination of male and female voices...