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Maine and we're talking about -- well, 8 in our 16 counties, the hospital is the largest employer and they're all telling me they would at least have to downsize, if not close. and that would be an economic disaster on top of the human disaster that this bill or something largely like it, would impose on maine people. so, if you want to stop talking about dismantling medicaid, which is a life line for millions of americans, and instead let's try to talk about what we can repair and make the affordable care act work better, then, you know, i'm all ears, as the man says. but if we're talking abo...

Have health care and it can't be obamacare, which is melting down. the other side is saying all sorts of things before they even knew what the bill would be. great if we get it done, and if we don't get it done it's just going to be something that we're not going to like and that's okay and i understand that very well. but i think we have a chance to do something very, very important for the public, very, very important for the people of our country that we love. >> reporter: and the reality here there is that he was talking several times about how obamacare, in his words, has melted down. but...

Trump invited you to the white house, senator, to discuss health care solutions, would you accept that invitation? >> it would -- i think the precondition would be that we stop talking about repealing and severely crippling medicaid if we're talking about improving the affordable care act. and if the president really -- somebody asked me the other day, what's your position. i said it's just like the president. i want everybody to have health care. i want reasonable premiums and deductibles and i want no preexisting conditions. that's what he keeps saying, but these bills, the one that passed t...

Republican senator susan collins said she's not sure from her, quote, tinkering, in her words, can address her fundamental concerns about the bill. are there changes that the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell could propose, do you believe, that will change the calculation for senator collins and others who are still on the fence? >> i don't think so because the fundamental thrust of the bill is a huge tax cult for tt for te who least need t a huge cut in medicaid and support premiums in the affordable care act. which by the way disproportionately hurt seniors. i think senator collins is l...

For whatever reason, there's a lack of trust on both sides about whether there will be a bait and switch. we can start to reform obama care and improve it but then they will pull the rug out and just repeal as part of a senate maneuver. there's a big distrust here. this permeates every debate we have in washington. we have lost trust. the two parties don't trust each other. average democrats and average republicans don't trust each other anymore. >> they don't trust their president. >> and they don't trust this particular white house. >> the republicans don't trust their own president. >> this...