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>> that's right. >> it's an important public service announcement. i encourage everybody to watch at 8:00 and 9:00. this is usually ari's hour. who can do it like ari? i wish you a happy holiday. you made it through two hours of a holiday rock block. >> did it. >> i'm sorry we're not in the same studio. have a great, restful, well-deserved holiday. >> enjoy your rock block. i will. thank you all at home for joining me this hour. i'm not ari. i'm alex wagner. this is the beginning of a two-hour rock block thick with news. we begin here. it's a moment that you are forgiven if you d...

No outline has been provided to us. >> now, i know you had a meeting with vice president pence. look, this has got to be, he's got to be pleading with you as a republican, i'm sure, and i know the two of you maybe don't necessarily see eye to eye on what the substance of the bill would be. but how close are you and vice president pence when it comes to the substance? >> he -- the vice president listened very carefully to my concerns. i went through my concerns about the cut in medicaid, what the impact would be on some of the most vulnerable citizens, our rural hospitals, our nursing homes. we...

Immediate politics of trying to stop or start this bill this week and get to the substance, that's a down the line question for next month at the earliest if they finish it this week. >> the political reality republicans are grappling with and karoun hits it exactly is the idea of deficit reduction, appealing to many fiscal conservatives, but really sort of, you know, a generalized amorphous idea, the deficit is big, we need to get it down, important for the future generation. 22 million fewer people having coverage is a much more easily understandable hit you in your home, know someone who lo...

To get out, get out of what? there is actually no mechanism that forces people to do what the treaty requires and it really is not about climate change. those who are worried about that issue should want it to end because it gives a false impression about the issue. it is an economic issue. >> i will bring the train back to the coverage issue. more on the politics of the climate issue coming up. back to ellen. coming off what tammiy said. looking at the white house press briefing and scott pruitt comes out has been a hostile press corps and there is the reporters sitting and waiting. the first...

Conservative republicans like about this plan, the $337 billion in savings that will go to the deficit. so there's not a lot of wiggle room where they can make conservatives happy without alien netting others. >> shepard: there's a few things they could do. not everybody would be happy about it. they save about $900 billion with the new plan. but they aid in about $650 billion in tax cuts, largely for wealthier americans. they could eliminate some of those tax cuts. >> that would eat away at the deficit -- the savings in this bill. that would upset conservatives. it would perhaps mitigate the ...