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Voters and democrats, too. shouldn't be partisan about this. to me it will be a catastrophe. i am glad folks at the value voters summit enjoyed it. he is such a godly man, he embodies christian values of faith and hope and charity and prudence and compassion, all of the things christians believe in, he is the exemplar of that, but going to screw them on health care. >> scott, you're joining us from kentucky today, aren't you? >> yes, louisville. >> let me ask you about kentucky. you have in it a state that overwhelmingly voted for the president, also a state back in 2008 had uninsured rate ove...

Forgot what their pledges were. we're going a little different route. in the end, it is going to be just as effective, and maybe it will even be better. >> this just hours after the trump white house deals a crippling blow to obamacare, cutting off subsidies to help low income americans afford health insurance. next hour, the president is targeting another obama legacy item, iran nuclear deal. he is expected to announce the agreement no longer serves america's national interests, but will stop short of scrapping the deal all together. let's again with the president as he wrapped the speech mom...

Plans in the transition period into the replace funded the csr subsidy for insurance companies as well. that's acknowledgment why this is important. conservative republicans don't want to do anything to fix obamacare, they're opposed to it, and think this is not only the right move, nothing should be done to prop it up. listen to what jim jordan had to say earlier. >> the csr payments are in fact illegal. the president said he is no longer going to engage in making these payments. let's move forward, do what we should have done a long time ago, what we in the house passed, let's move forward o...

Saying in that state where you are, brought down the uninsured level significantly. >> yeah, uninsured rate came down in kentucky because basically what we did here was expanded medicaid. i think 85% of everybody that got insurance because of obamacare did so because of the expansion in medicaid. it wasn't free market exercise getting people private insurance, this was putting them on medicaid. now the state budget here, you ask the governor, he will tell you, we're under massive strain because of that medicaid expansion and wrestling with that. that's what folks don't want to talk about. ever...

Saying associations and people can band together and sell and buy insurance across state lines that don't meet with some of the restrictions that are part of the affordable care act. that again is a blow. you have to look at those two things and really see that this will have a big impact in terms of how the affordable care act works at this point. one of the things you look for going forward is to see what the different states do. people like bassera in california, are we going to see that sort of thing where a democratic attorneys general in some big states try to see if they can go at this ...