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Point that this thing may not even make it out of the house depending on how certain members are feeling. >> reporter: first and foremost i'm trying to grab movie quotes to catch up. in speaking with house leadership aides, they realize one crucial component every action taken to the bill causes a reaction, so if you change it to address conservative concerns all a sudden the coverage numbers become harder to come by, same thing with the medicaid expansion from the current level of 2020, if you do that the coverage numbers drop further and moderate republicans will flee in mass if you do that....

Doesn't believe in the coverage numbers will be all that bad whereas paul ryan is talking about a different set of metrics for whether or not this bill is going to be a success. will the president speak up? everybody is waiting to see whether he exerts any influence over this process over the next couple of days and weeks. >> he has been more quiet than usual this past week but if the cbo report said that 24 million people were going to gain coverage, i'd almost be assured we'd be hearing from the president already. thanks you guys. new fall out after leaked tapes of speaker paul ryan separa...

All right. 4 past the hour. joining us director of office of management and budget mick mulvaney. very good to have you on the set with us. thank you for coming in. >> happy to be here on a beautiful, warm, sunny day. >> horrible out. >> it's sunny and 74. >> sun is coming up behind the blizzard. so we are looking at the cbo numbers and republicans have in the past supported cbo numbers. is it safe to say you have in the past supported cbo numbers? >> i think what you're seeing is something we have in the past. you have to sort of rely on cbo to count money because that's why it's there. we've...

Introducing the secretary of health and human services and the director of the office of management and budget, getting their reaction to the congressional budget office report. >> we'll obviously have more tomorrow as we go forward. with that, let me turn it over to dr. tom price, the secretary of health and human services. >> thanks, sean. thank you so much. it was a good cabinet meeting that we had. during the meeting the cbo report came out. i think it's important that we ask the question compared to what. and the fact of the matter is that this is about real people. it's about real people...

>> mike barnicle? >> mark halpern, you just heard the speaker of the house saying seven years running and rereplace and can't tell us what it costs today and the cbo might estimate what it will cost later today. you heard senator tom cotton saying pump the brakes. how wide is the gulf, if there is such a gulf, between the senate version, a few republicans in senate, and the house intent on getting this thing slammed right through? >> today, it's so wide, it's unbridgeable. the health care before confusing and experience. what republicans are proposing, confusing and expensive. and when the cbo...