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>> of course. it's just a continuation of the dishonesty we've seen from day one of this administration, chris. it's extraordinary. but, look, it tells us a couple of things about the west wing. first, it shows the abject incompetence of this white house. second, it shows the complete recklessness involved. that the nation's highest secrets are being entrusted to people who seemingly cannot pass fbi security clearances. they cannot obtain the top secret clearances required to work in the west wing of the white house and handle classified information. of course the aforementioned dishonesty. bu...

Election to get those clearances into place. some 13 months after the inauguration, some 15 months after the election that they don't have permanent security clearances would suggest to me that they're unable to clear the fbi full field background investigation in the white house security office will not grant a permanent top secret sci code word level clearance that is necessary to operate in these positions. anybody who cannot pass that background check has no business handling, seeing, being privilege to the nation's most closely guarded secrets. it threatens our intelligence cooperation wi...

Would pass that. that's exactly what we should be doing. that's what i would vote for. >> shannon: you know the skepticism of the american people. now many of your colleagues don't seem to have the same fortitude. >> that's exactly what i'm pushing for. there's a lot of people expressing skepticism. you don't know what cannot pass. it's unknowable unless we take that vote. the republicans would campaign for the last seven years did so on the promise to repeal obamacare. we have to do that now. thank you. >> bill: much more on the health care debate today. john boone has a big voice on

Ron, is this a president who just wants to pass something, anything? >> i think that's abundantly clear. i mean you know first of all, if you kind of think about all the ways in which this -- it's hard, i've covered washington since the early 1980s, it's hard to think of another bill that does as much harm to a party's core voters, as this. i mean you know, if you look at what it does to older and lower-income americans, particularly those in the last two decades before retirement, those are, two-thirds of all americans between 45 and 65 are white and most of them voted for donald trump. but t...

Problems that obamacare is having, that would be better, particularly for voters at the core of their coalition. when you look at the shifting goalposts of the president, it's pretty clear they just want to be able to notch something on the scoreboard. i would say normally that's going to give them legislative momentum. this is a bill that's looking at 20% or less approval in public opinion polling. so it's not clear that success is a better option than failure for the congressional republicans and the white house. >> reed, let's turn to one more thing here. this is i guess it was borne out of...