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Conditions. so i don't -- what the senator said was, although not surprising, terrible. a clear example of why americans hate congress. if you're going to go with that theory, why does that one matter? repeal and replace, and pre-existing conditions out of the president's own mouth, why doesn't that count we heard that the legislation does not mandate it. and to track with your state's argument, which i don't over all agree with the legislation that will give states the power to wave out of any pre-existing conditions in the bill. basic health essentials is a broad definition that we don't kno...

You've got to really be careful with this stuff, if you want to settle scores, fight with people, make sure that everybody knows you're right. if you want to maybe protect yourself legally, it creates a much better problem than you might realize. >> we asked jeff toobin whether spicer's notes would be covered under executive privilege. he said the key issue would be whether the information is central to the functioning of the executive branch against the competing need from law enforcement or congress. >> i think it would be very unlikely, this would end up getting covered by -- >> i have neve...

It's fascinating the degree to which. i don't think five years ago, anyone would have thought that or ten years ago -- i don't know when facebook started. but facebook would have such a role in a u.s. election? >> yeah, i mean, some people believe the 2016 election was the facebook election. the number of people who use their news feed to get all of the information for the day is huge. the total spending on federal campaigns in 2016 was 6.8 billion dollar they've identified $100,000 in facebook ads. proverbial drop in the bucket. however, it's important to identify it, and it's important to do...

It does nothing to address our national debt and growing deficit. the big problem here is it blows through the spend be caps that were put in place by the budget control act not too long ago that has been able to get a firmer hand on our increasing deficits and has been able to cut spending. that's a big problem. and also pushes our national debt closer to $20 trillion. which is also a problem. look, the biggest problem with this too, is that the deal was done behind closed doors, which is why so many americans across the country hate congress, because of these kinds of tactics. it uses budget...

Elephant in the room, which is the defunding of obama care, which is right there when you talk about opening the government. and you guys wanted to defund obama care. the government shut down. and the president says no way. i know you had a really nice meeting and you all like each other now and all the rest and you've stopped calling each other names. >> i didn't say that. >> but you've stopped calling each other names. but how do you get -- is defunding obama care off the table as part of the reopening of the government? >> well, you know that we passed four resolutions out of the house. >> ...