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Bite them on the policy side when this is actually implemented and a lot of people are affected by it, including a lot of their roervoters and tha what the cbo talks about so it will be interesting to see after this meeting if he's able to have some sort of substantive conversation with these senators and address the real issues, the real problems that they have with this. i think they're seeing the ro problems with the bill. >> julian is also with us. when you look at the bill and you look at just the complicated issue of health care in america, we know it was complicated for the democrats, b...

Statement for public release. >> i can tell you that leadership from the state department, d.o.d., dni, the cia, as well as members of the administration within this building were part of that process from the very beginning, and fully aware. >> can you give us a time line from the very beginning, was that a yesterday -- >> i'm not going to walk through the detailed process of a time line on how that was released for intelligence purposes. >> and on health care, you just said you accept or find valid the cbo numbers on the budget side. is that true? >> they're -- i mean, they're a budget -- th...

Of that could be people who choose not to get health insurance. >> well, look, i think let's just look at a couple ways. first of all, let's stipulate that nobody can predict the future and the f it's not 22 million, if it's 18 million or 15 million, it really doesn't matter. conclusion's no different. there's a lot of people that are going to lose coverage. most of the people that lose coverage in this bill lose it because they lose medicaid and medicaid goes away. so these are low income people, they're kids, they lose coverage. and then the second reason is because the cost of insurance spi...

The cbo score that they pointed out was that it would cut deficits by $300 billion and cut taxes. i think those are good things and i think when they focus on the budget side, that's probably a good thing and i think you had a second part. >> syria. the warning to syria, what's your message to the international community, and also to the american people who may be concerned when they read a headline like that, that they're thinking we may be hurdling towards a situation that involves the u.s. in that part of the world. >> i think that the message from the statement yesterday was extremely clea...

Very likely that that may harden the positions of susan collins, dean heller, who are in the no column right now as well, and likely to not be persuaded by those kinds of changes to the bill. so this is the problem that mitch mcconnell, as he says, the discussion goes on, and we are continuing the discussion, this is the problem he finds himself in. it's a push and pull with very, very little room for error because he can only afford to let two votes go. >> but does he have some wiggle room because of the cbo score that says that the senate version of the bill would reduce the deficit by $321 ...