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Concerns about that. look no one within our association has any interest in violating anyone's second amendment rights. that's not what this is about. but when a civilian is armed with a firearm and they're proficient with it, there's an idea there and it's an appropriate idea that they might have it for self-defense. and, again, an appropriate idea. but when we're dealing with an active shooter situation, we need people who get on the offensive and are chasing down that situation, engaging it, ending it. think about a teacher maybe being armed and having to leave a classroom to go and do that...

They are responding there or they may have gotten, you know, heard from dispatch or et cetera reports of shooting taking place. does that prechewed the officer from entering, not hearing it, but knowing there is active gunfire? or an active shooter on the scene? >> yes. just understand what i was referencing was an sro that's on campus or in the building and hear's that gunfire. the responding officers are a different matter. certainly if they're dispatched on a shooting at a school, you've got to assume with the history that you could be dealing with an active shooter event. and there's no ti...

That might hurt themselves or hurt others for a period of time while we investigate. there is -- as you mentioned, a doubling of school resource officers. then there's all sorts of new programs for mental health. you're talking about $160 million for new mental health programs. and so, you know, this say complete package. you have to look at it in its totality. i can tell you as one member, i am not going to vote to keep guns in the hands of 18-year-olds. i am not going to vote to keep guns in the hands of people like nikolas cruz. if democrats have indigestion about the bill, it's probably a ...

See premiums rise in 2018 and 2019 by 15 to 20%. the cbo also says because of provisions to pay insurance companies for people in my high-risk pool, premiums will go down. paul ryan saying positive things about the cbo estimate. we will see what the omb director and hhs second have to say. the caveat that the republicans are putting out there is this is phase one and a lot of a lot of the cost-saving items will not come in till phase two and phase three. doing things to lower the cost of health care in total. we will be hearing more about it in the next couple minutes. >> health and human serv...

I don't think the cbo numbers really help. it's hard, paul ryan is trying to sell it all day long but this shouldn't be that type of -- that tough of a sale. republicans need to deliver. this is catastrophic for the party if they don't get this pushed through in time, 2018. >> dana: greg, i was thinking earlier today about obviously there's pressure on any president. particular pressure on president trump because he can communicate to people like nobody else, but as he said last week, health care is extremely complicated. they are asking him to shoulder a lot of it. >> greg: cbo stands for con...