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Concern, a worry, a fear from folks on the left, folks on the right and a lot of folks in the middle that say our government isn't addressing their concerns. and so they're doing what they can to try to make their feelings known to congress. and you're ending up in this gridlock. the most frustrating part about this from my perspective is on a lot of these issues there are in fact sufficient votes in the house of representatives to move issues along that actually address the vast majority of these substantive concerns. we can't get there. there are plenty of democrats that have made a pledge t...

Single republican proposal has been so far about setting up a system for the healthy and wealthy and another system for everybody else. with the proposal of skinny repeal means if you are healthy and well off, maybe you don't need insurance right now, but for everybody that does, your premiums are going to skyrocket. it's indicated that by some estimates cbo has said 16 million people would lose access to their health insurance. and premiums grow by as much as 20% year on year. that is not the way you actually address the real health concerns that americans have across the country. and there a...

The latest version of their plan is something called the skinny repeal. this is something we would see them vote on potentially very late tomorrow night. the idea here is to just keep stripping things away from the repeal and replace plan until they get something that 50 senators will vote for. what we on the capitol hill team are hearing, what we think that would likely be would be getting rid of the individual and employer mandates and maybe the medical device tax. this doesn't touch medicaid. it doesn't touch a lot of those hot button issues. but stephanie, it's unclear if even that can pas...

Commission, you're going to have more democrats than republicans. they'll get the most moderate republicans they can and it gives the president cover to raise taxes which he now says in a bloomberg interview that he's agnostic about. >> this is about raising taxes. it's not about cutting taxes. the plan he signed today, it sounds so good, we're not going to spend money that we don't account for with cuts in the budget. but the truth is, very few things are even on the table to be cut. so what it means is, the only way to fix it is to raise taxes. >> in their minds. the way we would fix it as a...

>> you have to have more democrats than republicans you get the most moderate republicans you can and it gives them cover to raise taxes which he says in a bloomberg it is agnostic about it. >> the pago plan he signed today which got a lot of attention and sounds so good we are going to spend money we can't ask for with cuts in the budget. there are things national correspondent able that can't be cut. the only way to fix it is raise taxes. >> the way i would fix it is i would cut taxes. >> you would cut taxes but the pay go plan doesn't touch 40 percent of the budget doesn't touch military ed...