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Reflections on the conversation you have been listening to around appropriate mitigation measures around, for instance, face coverings, when a country like england is seeing a spike in cases? well, i do, actually. reflecting on the conversation, i was eavesdropping on the conversation you were just having, i don't quite see why we wouldn't continue to recommend the use of masks, especially when we know they work, the use of distance, ventilation, hand hygiene and disinfection and avoiding crowds when we know that these are proven effective measures to save lives. at the same time as increasing...

Senators who are expressing concerns. senator ted cruz joined this group today, saying the bill does not yet have his support. let's bring in athena jones. with six senators expressing concerns, two voting no, does this leave the attempt to repeal and replace obamacare dead? >> reporter: hi, fred. supporters of this bill will say it's not dead yet. we heard from senator collins saying she's leaning now but she's waiting to hear the score from the congressional budget office. she went on to say during that interview that she is concerned about the impact on costs and on coverage levels of this ...

The the same law, they're warming to it. that's why i can't conceive why president trump would come to kentucky to undermine it. so that's kind of interesting that pence would come here. >> vice president pence the one visiting kentucky. back when democrats were trying to pass obamacare, nancy pelosi had that sort of now infamous quote about you have to pass the bill so we can find out what's in it, now there's criticism for republicans for moving too fast on this. isn't that hypocritical? >> we had 79 hearings. we had numerous estimates of what the cost would be, what the coverage levels woul...

Detail stuff. i am told that the president is very concerned mainly about coverage levels. he wants to know that that number of people that are covered under health insurance when they're finished making changes to the plan does not drop under his watch. other than that, they're allowing the hill to do the big lifting and the president is also, you know, in meetings one-on-one with, you know, governor kasich on friday and others over the weekend. governors last night and today is taking in information about this so we really don't know whether he is going to personally weigh in on some changes...

The governors almost to a man and woman are saying we don't have the money. they heard presentations from other organizations that said if you pull the expansion money right now you're going to lose coverage. if you do tax credits instead of subsidies which a lot of republicans want to do, you will have people lose coverage, is that acceptable? >> well, we're going to find out. the president is concerned about coverage levels. he's going to be disappointed. republicans on the hill are less concerned with coverage levels than ensuring that people have access to coverage they want if they shoes ...