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Line, subsidy lowers their average deductible to 255 bucks a year. americans could see huge increases next year. the president threatened to stop payments for months. cost men to hike rates. 43% by more than 20%. some major players dropped out. insurers didn't price in loss of subsidies could sue or raise rates. all of this a new problem for obamacare, less than three weeks before open enrollment. >> what happens now, there is no way, i guess congress to approve money for this. but that's not likely. >> the argument from the white house now is they say payments are illegal, that congress shoul...

Maybe even better, which struck me. the issue to david's point is he can take it down, a lot of it down, but can't put it back up alone. >> that is a real issue. i think what he is trying to do here is prod congress along to get back to the table. if you look at the republican party, a lot more trust what they hear trump say than they hear out of congress. he is using that leverage and capital with republicans to get their republican representatives back to work on obamacare. signing executive orders, making speeches for him is a new strategy to try to put more energy back into the idea that t...

Markets, maybe some bipartisan fix. unclear if democrats will agree on that. they have to get hard line conservatives that don't want any kind of fix in the next month or two. >> nia, democrats call it sabotage, what the president announced. a federal court did rule in favor of republicans who sued over this saying payments were against the law. so which is it, sabotage or following through or both? >> i think it is both, right? i mean it does go a long way in terms of undermining the affordable care act. open enrollment starting in a couple weeks, see what the markets look like, what insuranc...

>> the president tweeted this this morning. i'll read it. the democrats' obamacare is imploding. massive subsidy payments to their pet insurance companies has stopped. dems should call me to fix. are you ready, you and your democratic colleagues, to call the president to fix obamacare, improve it and make it better for millions of americans? >> look, we always have been. if you look at what was going on in the senate, we had senator lamar alexander pushing a bipartisan bill to actually help stabilize the markets. the democrats have offered many, many amendments to the affordable health care ac...

Of payments, we have to up front acknowledge this is an illegal propping up of obamacare to begin with. and the president has to respond to that issue. >> hold that thought, let's listen to the the united states. ♪ >> thank you very much, tony. thank you. [ chanting "usa" ] >> thank you very much. you know i have been here,