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Let me go to the panel. thank you, hallie, garrett. we have a super sized panel. editor at large at the weekly standard, bill kristol. hugh hewitt. host of saturday mornings on msnbc. maria teresa kumar, msnbc contributor. if we don't have a plan, we don't know what they're going to vote on and they don't have a plan that has enough votes, what are they doing? >> well, i think they're going to get to the bare minimum that they can agree 50 votes on, that will include repeal of the individual mandate. probably the back signing of the device tax, and whether -- that seemed to bring back lisa mur...

Are closer to the state legislators and local officials and they can try to make change there. >> so, the issue again, that i've been trying to get at, maybe you don't have an answer because it wasn't in the house bill. there were roll backs by the way on the taxes on the wealthy in the obamacare taxes that have been imposed on high earners in the house bill. the senate makes some of those refunds -- those return of those taxes retroactive. how do you sell that to your constituents? >> well, the thing that bothers me about the device tax, i don't really have any great affinity for medical devi...

Talk about the individual mandate tax removed. steve: gone. >> corporate man democrat removed. steve: gone. >> device tax. list in tiny font we h almost a trillion dollars. ainsley: 12 different tax cuts. so, if you didn't like obamacare because it was not affordable, now, according to republicans, it's going to be much more affordable because all these taxes that went along with obamacare gone. pete: if you voted for president trump, even if you didn't, this is the guy you thought you were going to get. he made promises, bold ones on the campaign trail. he said i'm going to keep them. i'm goi...

Getting subsidies. >> they are in late middle age. part of the problem is, republicans were disunified about their priorities. that throws the power to democrats. >> they couldn't get 218 republican votes to pass the budget. >> or 60 votes in the senate. it will probably avoid some sort of crisis. >> what about the obamacare? some people say it's a tax on insurers and medical devices and on high-value health care plans, so-called cadillac tax. these are delayed now. some republicans are saying, look, this is a problem because it make it is harder to repeal obamacare down the road. do you buy t...