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Do the deficit and if i could just spend a second on that to show you what i mean. >> martha: sure. >> the cbo estimates that the senate bill is i think at no 1.4 trillion to the deficit, the house is 1.5 trillion add to the deficit. that's really not completely accurate because of a thing called current policy. this in essence mean that hidden in that deficit number are $400 billion of offsets if we just simply let some things expire as they are supposed to expire. that will reduce the deficit to roughly about a trillion dollars over the next ten years. the federal government is supposed to t...

Defeating this who rehorrendous attempt for people -- >> do you think that's extreme to say people are going to die if they don't have their health care? >> access to health care extends your life span. people who don't have health care have less time in life. people who don't like to talk about it are budget numbers and cbo estimates. this affects people in real ways, and if you saw the press conference the senator had a couple weeks ago, a young woman with her child who makes the choice between medicine for her child and medicine for herself, these are the kind of impacts that go on in these...

Malveaux live on capitol hill. >> reporter: good morning, chris. senate republicans obviously achieving a victory, important legislative victory, but the challenge of uniting the party around replacing and repealing obamacare very illusive. the first proposal offering $100 billion in medicaid to satisfy the moderates and bear bones insurance plans to satisfy the conservatives, well, it went down in flames. the republican effort to broker an agreement on health care suffering its first setback with the senate decisively rejecting the gop's most comprehensive replacement plan. nine republicans v...

Replacement plan, nine republicans voting against the measure. the senate expected to take up today senator rand paul's proposal to repeal obamacare with the delay on the replacement plan for two years, a measure the cbo estimates will leave 32 million more americans uninsured and is also expected to fail. >> this is just the beginning. we're not out here to spike the football. this is just a long way, we'll finish at the end of the week hopefully. >> the senate with a tie-breaking vote with vice president mike pens. >> the vice president votes in the affirmative. >> reporter: pence casting th...

Analysts, including our own charles krauthammer. listen. >> he's not going to own it, which is strange because when the house version passed this spring, the president was eager to moan that one. he threw a big victory celebration of the rose garden. >> this is an epic fail, this is historic. this is seven years down the drain. >> jon: one of the things that gets talked about a lot is that millions of people at the cbo estimates would be caps off the roles of the insured if these various plans were put forward, but according to the irs, there were six and a half million people who opted to pay...