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Going to have to sway to try to terrify him. >> nancy pelosi was talking about obamacare how the republicans don't have any plans to replace it. kellyanne conway answered that as well. >> one of the big priorities for president-elect trump and the republican congress would be to make it easier for americans to purchase health care across state lines. we also were talking about more patient-centric care. >> there are some aspects that donald trump has praised. easy committed to maintaining those parts of the law? >> he is committed to retaining most pieces that his advisors say are working. >> ...

Doesn't have a lot of details. a lot of people are losing their coverage. that has a tendency to raise insurance costs and that will adversely affect the affordability. for a man that campaigned about affordability that seems a strange pass forward. >> bank was passed with a bare majority under the budget rules, reconciliation. they only need 51 votes to get this passed. that seems to be -- >> well, let's be clear. that's not completely true. in reconciliation there are only certain things you can deal with. those are things that affect the budget. and so parts that don't affect the budget can...

Conservative hard liner. that's what they are looking for as they push to repeal the health care law. they will try to make changes. what's being discussed among republicans is it's easier to repeal the law than it is to try to put something back in place to fix it. there are pieces that protect people with pre-existing conditions that allows them to continue to get insurance. there is a balancing act they have to figure out to repeal the law. they can do that with 50 votes in the senate. passing affirmative legislation is trickier, potentially more likely to require 60 votes. it's harder to u...

We need to think more creatively about portable benefits, workforce training. i'm not sure where these fall democrat, republican. if we don't address that anger and angst that was heard last week, then i think we're not doing our duty for america. >> what focus does that place on the tax cuts, for corporate america, for the wealthy, the president well, i believe under budget rules be able to pass with 51 votes? >> what it's going mean somebody who has spent much of my first term in the senate desperately trying to put together the bipartisan group, i was the gang of six that tried to work on t...

Before the house committee. a.b., it just doesn't get more fascinating than this one, i don't think. >> i know, it's interesting. in the years between 2012 and now, he had a lot of fun talking about this behind closed doors. >> and got a lot of money. >> he must have. and now he's been in trouble with the contract he had with the state of vermont and a recent e-mail turned up where he said he gave one interview apologizing for it but since then he's been laying low because he doesn't want to fan the flames of the haters, so it's really interesting what his interpretation of the damage is. it w...