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The goal to not do any of that? isn't the goal to make sure there is a functioning system? we've already heard criticism from both sides of the aisle. maine's republican senator susan collins send ends cost subsidies would not just hurt insurance companies but detrimental to the most vulnerable citizens if the payments were cut off. bernie sanders echoing that sentiment as well, and arguing that the president should not be trying to sabotage health care. one more thing i want to mention, fred. you mentioned at the top, the president's tweet, how the republicans should go to 51 votes. that was ...

Please release these hacked e-mails. he is trying to divert the message by going and playing the very people who should not be talking to him about some of this tamp this down. they're very worried and i think they're preparing for stage one of their cover-up. >> oh, that's a little hand grenade you put out there. sara, you're a journalist and scholar and -- is what we're seeing now in the united states, does that follow patterns that you have seen in other pces around the world? >> yes, of course. they don't care about our national security. they don't care about public safety. they don't car...

Insurance. i'm actually involved in discussions with that because where i sit on the appropriations committee now to make sure that they have the subsidies they need to continue to provide plans. but the problem we have in my state is, look. this thing isn't working. we are one of five states and down to a single insurer for the entire state if you're on obamacare and your rates are going up 69%. it's not like standing around doing nothing is an alternative or there is a functioning system. >> congressman tom cole, thank you very much for being on the show this morning. >> thank you. >> wait. ...

That rates are always going up, right? the rate of -- >> not -- >> the rate of increase has slowed. >> not like 116% in, you know, in arizona, an average of 25% across the board. no, they're not always going up. certainly not at these rates. certainly not with insurers actually leaving the marketplace. so, choices have been diminishing. you have to recognize, number one, you're inheriting a system in crisis, not a system that was a functioning system. going to be sustained. number two, you know, i think the basic principles of what we're going to do, that is, a market-based plan, things that i...

Ther to forge a functioning system. it is political and economic stability. that is where this is potentially so danieling. >> phil black on the streets. thank you so much for your reporting there. >> a new poll shows americans are more concerned about isis than ever before. 80% say they think isis poses a serious threat to the united states. that's up from november. >> u.s. president barack obama has finally congratulated israeli prescribe benjamin nth