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Spending going out of the treasury. to satisfy the requirements of this reconciliation procedure, the bill must save $2 billion over the next ten years. that's what cbo is going to say yes or no on monday. how many will take up the subsidies, how many in the medicaid programs? and they'll have supplemental information about coverage. i fully expect there to be a vigorous debate about those coverage numbers. in part because if you look back at the that, there were different coverage numbers. and the cbos weren't the ones closest to the marks. we're just going to revisit what is an old research ...

The fact is that people should have the availability of coverage if they choose to seek it but they should not have the internal revenue service chasing them down and forcing them to buy something that they don't want or cannot afford. >> yeah but access doesn't equal coverage and in fact the s&p global rating says 10 million people could lose their coverage under your gop plan. that's 20 million that gained coverage under obamacare. so how do you take away their coverage now? >> simple fact is that you're not. of course the congressional budget office overestimated the number of people that w...

New health care bill. that's his word. let's get to the cnn political analyst, mark preston. the president had been asked, do you think you will be able to keep people covered? he said, yes, yes, very important. it's almost impossible to read this initial proposal and see it as covering everybody. it's almost certainly going to reduce the coverage numbers. what is the plus/minus. >> the plus is the republicans said they would repeal and replace and the minus is it's not going to be as inclusive as you said. they talk about access to health care and not necessarily coverage of health care. the ...

Line and you get shades of this all the time the way they are operating that. >> thank you so much. we are following a lot of news this morning, so let's get right to it. it is obamacare gone. we repeal all those taxes and mandates and subsidies. >> we have seen some republican opposition to it saying it doesn't go far enough. >> they are going to come far short of the coverage numbers that obamacare provides. >> no question something happened. is it surveillance or a tire tap. >> if it's true, it's earth shattering. >> and there's no reason for us not to have trust and confidence in direc...

Obviously, a number of states took the medicaid expansion that was offered in obamacare inshrewding a number of red states. how this would work would be those roles would be allowed to grow till january 18th, 2020. the program, the spigot wouldn't immediately be shutoff. those states that didn't take the expansion would get money, as well so wouldn't be punished. trying to split the difference as they try to reach out to as many constituencies as possible. >> democrats are saying this will not come near to covering as many people as obamacare does. >> they're right. we haven't seen a congressi...