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Buy now and options that aren't there. i think there are options that they can't have. we do look close at the spending numbers. those are the bigger issues for us. >> i was going to ask you, this deficit number is $119 billion. i think there was a time when many of your colleagues thought, if did you a repeal and replace of health care, that you would get a deficit reduction number closer to $500 billion that would give you more wiggle room on tax reform. is this a disappointing number to you? >> i'm still going to go through that. there's quite a bit that has to be done as you've seen from t...

Doesn't curb spending according to the cbo. >> old trick and numbers loopholes are in this. one of the reasons there is momentum for the president and i think they are going to get what they are looking for. i think they are going to get with the flips that we have already seen kucinich yesterday. guterres today. i think if the president is two votes down as he is in our tally, he is going to make it. and i think in part it's because you have got the presidency on the line here. with all the powers he has you got a large majority of democrats in the house and the senate and i would add another...

Previous version and what they said is we will not include that in the bill an ignore it and pretend like that huge pile of red stuff is not a problem for us. and, then, the other kind of -- what other tricks do they have in order to keep the total amount of the money at 940 and to keep the so-called deficit reduction number at 130. it was 110, i believe in the previous version and if you -- for example, $52 billion in payroll taxes, for social security, as paying for currently health care expenditures, and, 72 billion dollars worth of premiums for long term care, paying for health care expens...

That original estimate was this, shepard: 10 years, $132 billion worth of deficit reduction. now the congressional budget office says no it's going to be less than that, $118 billion. there is interesting footnote, shepard. there is unaccounted for costs that have to be paid that will probably reduce that deficit reduction number. what are they? the internal revenue service will have to spend anywhere from 5 billion to $10 billion over the first 10 years just to admin stir its side of health care reform. so the department of health and human services. and there is an extra $50 billion in unacc...

More than $300 billion that could be in play because that is the deficit reduction number. there are goodies that can be passed out to some, that may not bring over the more hard-line fiscal conservatives, though, you got rand paul who is one of the leaders of that pact at the white house right now. kristen, there is going to be arm twisting and a lot of dealing, wheeling and dealing there too. >> absolutely. don't forget the president has been working the phones on this over the weekend. yesterday we anticipate he will today as well. and vice president mike pence, andrea, has been such a cent...