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Going to touch medicaid. Exactly. Thanks. Thank you, rachel. Well, House Republicans passed a tax cut bill today in which health care for them was just collateral damage. For republicans, its really always, and i mean always about the tax cuts. People with disabilities and preexisting conditions would suffer under that bill that passed the house today if it ever became law. Some democrats in the house actually cheered through their tears when the republicans passed their bill because those democrats could finally see through this vote today the way they could win back the house of representati...

"With the Republican contests, the big takeaway is how Trumpy the entire field is," says one GOP consultant, as the 2022 primary elections get underway.

This. and what you just mentioned with congressman upton, he is in a position when he is asked to cast that vote, as we said, the first inning of this exercise. it's a less pressurized vote at that point because it's so much more distant from actually becoming law. this bill, if it passes the senate, goes back to the house in some other form. and all those fred uptons have another decision to make on a completely different document at that point. and that is a much more pressurized decision that's a round about way of me getting to the question of in your house experience, did you see house me...

Mitch mcconnell doesn't just engineer this so that a few republican senators get some window dressing changes and send it back. so bottom line, it's really important that everybody turn out to all the town hall meetings now, just as they did before. >> so senator, i want to take you back to your house experience, you're an expert on this. and what you just mentioned with congressman upton, he is in a position when he is asked to cast that vote, as we said, the first inning of this exercise. it's a less pressurized vote at that point because it's so much more distant from actually becoming law....

This gives them a lot of cover, frankly, to bang on the administration for a lot of problems that are already justifiable, but this really takes it out of a political context for a few days, which i don't think the administration is very, very happy about. >> i take a slightly contrary view on this. i think clinton's doing him a favor. in clinton's convoluted mind, he thinks it he's doing him a favor. >> how so? >> i think this is an escape hatch from the current predicament. never mind that it's from a policy perspective in the strictest way nonsensical at the moment because we haven't figure...