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Stabilize the insurance markets that are collapsing under obamacare as well and policies contained in the discussion draft will implement stabilization policies to bring financial certainty to insurance markets and hope to americans who face the possibility of limited or zero options next year under obamacare. and ultimately transition away from obamacare's collapsing system entirely so more americans will not be heard. we also agree on the need to strengthen medicaid, preserve access to care for patients with pre-exiexisting conditions and w parents to stay on the health insurance through the...

It is thursday, june 22nd. joe should be back with us tomorrow. still with us, mike barnicle, sam stein, elise jordan, and joining the conversation in washington, jake sherman. good to have you on board, jake. we're hours away from seeing the draft health care bill. many of those voting on it are still waiting to read it. they want the details. and yet, majority leader mitch mcconnell will seek a vote before the end of the week. -- end of next week. a discussion draft of the bill is reported to include deep cuts to federal medicaid funding, a repeal of all aca taxes except on high-cost cadilla...

House could not say how much the president knew about the contents of the health care bill. according to the washington post, a discussion draft circulated yesterday among aides and lobbyists. republican senators, they will receive the legislation in a meeting at 9:30 this morning, which lindsey graham commented on just yesterday. >> no, i'll see it and we'll know if it's a boy or girl along about 9:30. >> support among the republican caucus appears to be waivering. the "wall street journal" finds opposition coming from both conservatives and centrist senators, many of whom feel they are left ...

Surrounding nancy pelosi and current democratic leadership. obviously, you're in a different chamber. is she the right person to be leading house democrats right now in your view? >> i think leader pelosi is doing a great job. i must tell you this, though, our challenge is to point out to the american people the danger of mr. trump's policies and to try to work for the betterment of our country, i'm involved in national security issues. and i will continue to work with republicans in order to advance that. fortunately, we have a lot of republicans who agree with us on that. so i think in the h...

The room when karen handel won. the republican health care bill is still secret this morning but not for long. senate leaders are prepared to release what they're billing as a discussion draft it's what top republicans hope will be a final push to a vote on repealing and replacing obamacare before the upcoming congressional recess, that's just over a week away. the latest from capitol hill. >> reporter: well, we have a date for the bill. the bill that's been crafted behind the scenes, the bill that we still don't actually know what's inside of it. we do know according to senate majority lead...