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Briefings, listening sessions, conferences, committee hearings, and we've got a lot of feedbecome from members over that process. our chairs, walden and brady and ways and means and commerce got feedback from members on two provisions. whether we have a cap on the size of the credit or whether there's a cap on the exclusion. those two concerns were addressed in the latest draft of the bill because again, this is a participatory process. a bottom-up process. those are the concerns that were brought to the committees or jurisdiction by lots of members. not just conservatives but lots of members ...

Shouldn't i be part of the process? i was elect today represent my state and i'm not allowed to read the working progress so i comment on it? >> why not putting it out there? >> i think it will be put out there. typically we get a bill to review as it's about a couple of days from what they call mark-up, the committee level. you generally are not going get a bill before that. i think the difference here is given what nancy pelosi in the past, feeling burn on vote on it and then you can read it, what the speaker has said i promise full transparency in this process, we are going to have it out t...

Conservative movement which eventually led to the tea party. do you see similarities now? >> yeah, i mean, you know, dissent is part and baked into the american political system. that's a good thing. we want to have that. and in fairness to the republicans out there, and in fairness to paul ryan and leadership, this has been a bottom-up process. unlike with due respect to the affordable care act, when it went in straight line party vote, little debate and sort of read it and you can discover what's in it approach, it's been approach of senator paul and i, for instance, have a plan. there are a...

Earlier, is this outpouring of citizen action. the marches we saw in washington and new york, all around the country after trump's inauguration, it was just a powerful sign of people wanting to be involved, saying, hey, this is our country too. yeah, there will ab fight in the senate and it will be pretty predictable but more of a bottom-up process for the democratic party. democratic party needs new leadership. there are tired and familiar faces on chiapitol hill and i think that process of change is what the party needs. >> exactly right, david. that new leadership, i think, has to bubble up...

Our allies on this rogue regime. so i think it's a little early to say exactly what the response ought to be until we get all of the facts in hand. but it does clearly look like this is what took place. >> one of the complaints from democrats is that you're putting forward this repeal bill before you put forward the alternative it promised. why do that? why not just put up an alternative? >> just wait. >> you were asked about your agenda for this year, the tax reform and health care replacement that you wanted to do. he said oh, so it's going to be like contract with america which makes it sou...