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♪ >> neil: we are beginning to get the first lashes on the congressional budget office grading on the senate measure. that pretty much is like a house measure, according to congressional budget office. 22 million fewer insured. they added about 24 or 26 million under the house plan. there's no way to know, because you're basing that on expected enrollment growth as things stand out. versus the measures that republicans are taking, where you have no longer a mandate where people purchase the insurance. no deficit implications. the house measure, dave water savings from upwards to 800 billion....

And said we're going to go repeal obamacare, weave never done it before. we've done it 30 times. that's what i don't understand about the dynamic about these guys, particularly the mod rates opposed to it, these guys have all voted for it before. this is nothing new. >> lanhee, would you agree with one of the definitions of hypocrisy this week has arrived with the health care proposal on the one hand and the tax reform proposal on the other. so you get republican governors like greg abbott saying no medicaid expansion is going to bust the budget. the tax reform, the one-page tax reform proposa...

For itself. that's opt mission tick. look, there are other republicans like paul ryan long taking a more responsible approach which is to say in order to actually cut the tax rates, we have to significantly reform the tax code. that's why they wanted the border adjustment tax to help pay for it. without that this will have deficit implications. the question is are republicans willing to look the other way? >> some $10 trillion. still ahead on "morning joe," the state department reportedly at odds with un ambassador nikki haley. why it wants to improve all her public comments on hot button is...

Means simplification and overhauling how you pay your taxes, what kind of deductions you are able to claim and all of that. if they don't propose something specific and expansive in terms of how you alter the structure of the code, it is not really tax reform. the one reason i'm sus pirgs is reform is how you pay for it. and without that, we're not really dealing with tax reform. and if we are, then it's very, very complicated on the hill. if not, it's still complicated because of the deficit implications but it may be easier to create consensus because every republican is in favor of cutting ...

Point, incress in the interest rate would increase our debt burden by $1 billion. >> there's something else here, excuse me for interrupting, jared, and that's the debt ceiling fight shows that the republicans have one idea, and that's to cut spending. they don't do that when george w. bush was -- >> i thought their one idea, david, was cutting the deficit. >> that's -- they say that's the case, but it really is they want to just talk about spending cuts as if that is going to help the economy. and any mainstream economist now tells you that you may have to do that in some ways for long-term d...