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Finance very long-shot candidates. that's a pretty privileged little elite. why should we spend $600 million when it doesn't educate one american, it doesn't build one mile of road, it doesn't defend the country, doesn't educate a kid? >> reporter: the public financing system was born out of the watergate scandal, a way to clean up washington. taxpayers are asked if they want to donate $3 from the u.s. treasury to fund the presidential races. candidates who accept public money also must accept spending limits. cutting the program would save taxpayers $617 million over the next decade. accordin...

And legislators who represent those areas are aware of that. the bill doesn't go far enough for people on the republican right in terms of dismantling the aaffordable care act affordable care act, it goes too far for suburban moderates, couple of dozen representatives from suburban districts concerned about what it does for medicaid. great deal of concern on both sides of the republican family if it were. more like simpsons than a normal family. lot of fighting going on there. >> okay. >> at the end of the day, i think this is a heavy lift. and argument that paul ryan is making and trump is ma...

And so there's a great deal of concern on both sides of the republican family, as it were, more like the simpsons than a normal family, a lot of fighting going on there. so i think at the end of the day, you know, this is a heavy lift. and the argument that paul ryan is making and that trump is making to the republicans is, you promised this, you're going to get punished if you don't do it, keep it going, don't kill it here, keep it going, we can fix it within the problems. t process. the problem is a lot of people don't trust the senate to make it better in their perspective. >> i have to ask...