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>> it's driven by the three big entitlement programs that are very popular, medicare, social security and medicade. that's 70% of what we spend every year, the funding of the government is about 30% of what we spend. there's been a bipartisan reluctance to tackle entitlement changes because of the popularity of those programs. hopefully at some point here we'll get serious about this. >> dana: entitlement spending. we've talked about it for a long time in this country. i read it again this morning. you conclude one of the things in your conclusion is that we have to deal with this issue. how s...

The senate. >> ron, are we about to see chuck an nancy part ii, is that what's going ohappen here? >> it's an interesting idea. it will be more complicated on the democratic side. what they saw and the criticism they received was by making the deal on the fiscal side, they cleared more space for the republicans. more time for the republicans to immediately launch this one-party again effort to undo obamacare. i don't know what's more striking, that john mccain in the end would say he is unwilling to vote for a bill that would recon figure one-fifth, one-sixth of the u.s. economy without commit...

Legislation unless it protects those with preexisting conditions. >> reporter: democrats are blasting republicans, accusing them of rush, trying to get it done by the end of next week, perhaps without a full accounting of price and impact. >> they just took the congressional bug office and threw it out the window with our economy at stake and millions of people's healthcare at stake. that's outrageous. >> reporter: the rush is, of course, that the leadership only has until the end of next week to pass it with a 50 vote threshold instead of 60, harris. >> harris: republican senators to watch in...

People appointed in previous administration to be asked for their resignation. across the federal government there are no longer people who have jobs. what is unusual ab this though, with bharara is the fact that he was asked by the then president elect back in december to stay on. and then wasn't kept on. then why the president decided to call him. i don't believe he called any of the other u.s. attorneys. came to the point where bharara consulted with some colleagues as to whether or not he should call the president back. so still a lot of unanswered questions about this particular one. lot ...

Important to understand, this bill has to be done in the phases it has to to address the repeal part of it and the replace part of it. there are only things we can do through reconciliation. and then through action, the secretary is empowered to do under obama care. and then third is an additional piece of legislation that addresses things. there are cost saving measures that in competition aspects of this that have to be included in phase two or three because they are not allowed in the reconciliation bill. because of the nature of how reconciliation works on capitol hill. i think that one of...