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People earn. they haven't decided yet what the income requirements are going to be. >> that's the big question. why is the past-through rate so important? and how they'll enforce it also. >> well i don't know about the enforcement angle of that. the past-through rate is something that is very good for entrepreneurs. >> small business? >> small business. they have an llc or limited liability partnership. or llp. and they are paying their taxes through the stated individual rate. so you lower that pass-through rate to 25%. top rate was 39.7% in 2017 so that's a 14-point deduction. or discount. >...

Transfer of financial risk from the federal government to the states in our country's history. >> isn't that what they want? federalism? >> yes. that's the chief argument. >> the medicaid directors are saying wait a minute. that's what it would do. republican leaders still don't have the vote the but senator lindsey graham is feeling confident. >> if you want money and power out of washington and you want to end the march to single pair health care, this is your last best chance. this is the biggest change in health care in my lifetime this. is federalism versus socialism. i think we're going ...

It with these sorts of changes. there is going to be a robust amendment process once it gets on the floor. under the reconciliation rules which is allowing the republicans to avoid a democratic filibuster, you end up with hundreds of hamilton being proposed in an open -- hundreds of amendments being proposed in an open amendment provides. we call it a vote-a-rama. there are competing forces here. the more pragmatic republicans are concerned about what this is going to do for coverage and coverage protections. the more conservative republicans that want to see a more aggressive repeal of the ob...

They didn't want to do. that i think they wanted to fight with the white house and the state department. i think mr. gowdy's chief argument is i don't want it to be run like the benghazi was, that was a political instrument. >> that would be the worst thing possible for this administration to come. >> congressman, richard haase here, do you think they can claim the legitimacy here and the perception they can carry out a investigation or do you think it's been taken out of the game and it's up to the senate or some other mechanism. >> it certainly hasn't been taken out of the game. we are fully...

Policy positions. single payer abortion, recent past as a hillary donating obama voting democrat. none of them matter to his supporters and because the chief argument requires you to believe in the republican party as a vehicle for something different than the democratic, a fact that's no longer an item of belief for many voters. ben? >> well, i appreciate you quoting from one of my favorite writers. but i think you're completely correct. i think this is a scenario where essentially the rules don't apply to trump because the base of support, the republicans have counted on for so many years no...