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Estimate, i think. >> so, a lot of focus from the white house and mulvaney there on the part that they got wrong. and the cbo was wrong in estimating how many people would insured under the obamacare exchanges, right? it was about half of their estimate. but they were spot on when it came to how many americans would be insured total by 2016. they predicted, you know, 89% and it was 89.7% of americans had insurance last year. they've been wrong, but right, too. >> this is a very complex kind of issue. you have to guess how employers are going to respond. and they didn't drop as much insurance h...

Things like cross-state competition, et cetera, for insurance. and i think in that third tranche is where we actually deal with a lot of the truth in billing issues, the back room, how do we rice thprice this, ho competitively shop. that's where we hope to bring in some democrats. it's not the best headline in the world, that's for sure. but there are some good things in this cbo score. they did get a lot of stuff wrong with obamacare. and frankly, this is one of three things we want to do for health care. >> they got how many people would be covered wrong, but there were reasons for that. the...

Big melting pot. abby, your point's right about people being slow on this. and that which we ignore, we empower. kathy, abby, thanks for being with us. appreciate it. pop? >> important conversation. coming up for us, crunching those health care numbers. after the congressional budget office scored this gop health care plan, how do the numbers all add up? our chief business correspondent, christine romans, brings us that, next. ( ♪ ) it's off to work we go! woman: on the gulf coast, new exxonmobil projects are expected to create over 45,000 jobs. and each job created by the energy industry ...

They're great at what they do, but sometimes they're unable to ask what we do. >> that is what they do. joining us, someone who knows that charge very well, robert raushauer, he ran the place under george h.w. bush and president clinton. nice to have you here. let me get your reaction to what some very close to the president are saying about this score from the cbo. tom price, hhs secretary, calls it just not believable. newt gingrich called for the cbo to be abolished after this number came out and said they're corrupt and dishonest. mick mulvaney, the budget director says this assessment is ...

Turning to politics now, 24 million more americans will lose their health insurance over the next decade if the republican plan to replace obamacare becomes law. this is according to a brand-new report from the nonpartisan congressional budget office run by a guy the republicans put in to run it. these numbers not even close to what the white house were hoping to see. this as we enter day 54 of the trump presidency. even hhs secretary tom price says these numbers are, quote, not believable. but he was one of the main guys to put in keith hall, who runs the entire cbo. >> reporter: that's absol...