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That are on the plate. hopefully we can solve them in a rational way. >> welcome back. you heard him. that was president trump today mentioning the many things congress has to take on now that they're back from the august recess. on top of raising the debt ceiling, funding the government, passing relief for hurricane harvey and everything else this month, health care still remains a big priority. now the senate is doing something many lawmakers pleaded for before the republican healthcare bill imploded in the senate in july. a version of regular order. that means holding hearings and those hea...

Harvey aid, immigration, avoiding a government shutdown, tax reform some of the things that congress is dealing with but something else is on the agenda -- health care. >> this hearing is about taking one small step, a small step on a big issue which has been locked in partisan stalemate for seven years. >> lamar alexander holding a hearing with state insurance commissioners to talk about stabilizing the premiums. it's the first of four meetings planned by the help committee. the goal is to get a bipartisan bill, he says, he's working with senator patty murray on that. joining me is the former...

I have that bill just waiting to go if we can put this in committee. i think the next chapter after the result early this morning was the help committee can start taking up ideas. i have bills. republican members like susan collins and bill cassidy have bills. we should start taking them up aunds debating pros and cons and what we can do to improve health care. >> chuck schumer dug in and said under no circumstances will democrats be working with republicans on health care while they try to repeal. do you think that at this point there's going to be a willingness to go along with any kind of f...

Box, but it's not going to be debated. you remember when we passed the affordable care act, we accepted 150 republican amendments in the help committee, senator kennedy's committee that i sat on. we did weeks and weeks, months of hearings and discussions. people had a chance to thoroughly understand it. then we moved. this is t exact opposite of this, and they're going to jam the american public. and in my state as i said before to you, chris, 200,000 people right now in ohio are getting opioid treatment, and they are getting it because they have insurance from the affordable care act. a bunch...

Complicated and too long to really understand it. they didn't do a cbo score and they moved on it. it looks to be the same construct. maybe they'll do the cbo score so they can at least check that box, but it's not going to be debated. you remember when we passed the affordable care act, we accepted 150 republican amendments in the help committee, senator kennedy's committee that i sat on. we did weeks and weeks, months of hearings and discussions. people had a chance to thoroughly understand it. then we moved. this is the exact opposite of this, and they're going to jam the american public.