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Health care bill. now to see you. >> great to see you. >> what tool do you need to use? seem like the republicans are doing the bill in themselves. >> i think they concept of cutting and capping medicaid is not the way to go. i think throwing people off of health care that would raise premiums for people in the private market is not good idea. we do want this idea really thought through and exposed. the notion that you might not have the votes now but come back in a week, very problematic. we want to stop it. >> what do you see as a solution? being reasonable, recognizing we got a republican, ...

But in most of his primetime address, the president struck a more optimistic note. >> a new national pride is sweeping across our nation. and a new surge of optimism is placing impossible dreams firmly within our grasp. >> reporter: but it remains an open question whether it was a lasting pivot or a one-night performance after a rough start to his presidency. in either case, his wish list is an expensive and complicated one, even among republicans. not to mention democrats who are largely resisting the trump agenda. from health care. >> we should ensure that americans with preexisting conditio...

This congress to repeal and replace obamacare. >> we got a big, big wall, isis, obamacare, immigration reform. when you think we're talking about this a year from now, what do you think we'll see real progress on? >> we'll get this is a classic trump opening position in negotiation. everything we know about the way he negotiated as a business person was he asked for it all at the beginning. after a couple of months he finds out what's doable and what's not. one thing, you know, know has been talking today about how much less shrill and less harsh and dark he was in his inaugural speech or firs...

Dire and everyone knows it. i have my prop here. the issue is, if we don't raise the debt ceiling, the government cannot issue new debt. the problem is we take in 60 cents for every dollar we spent. we spend 40% more than we take in. at that point, the government has a choice to make -- not pay the interest on your current debt, which amounts to a default. how would the markets react to that? >> that's bad. >> we think so. currently the u.s. is used as the safe haven. would markets continue -- we don't know. the second choice is even more scary to me. that is if we choose not, we have to cut s...