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Public service, and he is there to serve all of us. >> how does it help in negotiations when you're calling the other side treasonous? >> that's not exactly what i would do when you're facing a government shutdown later this week. >> donald trump is calling s-hole countries, trashing democrats on twitter, blah, blah, blah, blah, on and on and on and on. >> and he gets away with it, and it's really frustrating. >> and congress is despite all that trying to figure out a way to pass legislation. is he noise to everybody, including democrats? >> the difference in the health care debate when he end...

Obamacare, at least they have something on record saying, look, i did what i could. i put my vote on the line to change obamacare and make changes. president trump doesn't have that. he's not going to be able to say here is concrete evidence of what i did to repeal and replace obamacare. you can't blame it on the republicans or democrats. you can't blame it on the three republicans who didn't vote. they said we have to work together. republicans have to work together. the conservative and moderate republicans have to get together to move the ball down the field. >> he can and did blame three r...

We're seeing a lot of concern from not just republicans whose states expanded medicaid but those who didn't because the changes in the bill are going to affect a lot of different states. >> right. even though the president called the house version mean, the white house blasted the cbo score in a statement. they're pushing back, the cbo has consistently proven it cannot creately predict how health care legislation -- accurately predict how health care legislation will impact insurance coverage. it estimated 24 million people would have obamacare by 2016, off by an astounding 13 million people. ...

Living up to those campaign promises. >> a 70% increase in the medicaid budget is still an increase. it was previously planned -- >> overall, though, a cut. >> it's still an increase in funding and no one who is one w covered by the medicaid expansion today would luose tha coverage under bill. at the end of the day, we should all be judged not by how many people are using the system but how many don't need to use the system. that's what we need to do with a growing economy. >> i have to get you on this, the president acknowledged he called the house version mean after celebrating it in the ros...

Challenge, that president trump behind closed doors and then in front of the world labeled the house version mean, even after he held that celebration in the rose garden for it. this bill, i mean, how do republicans make the argument this is not mean, this is a nice bill? >> well, opponents, first of all, are bracing for the mean comment to be in every single ad in 2018 if this bill passes. the white house is working really hard to try to portray their messages and the outreach has been very popular. they talk about these wavering senators behind the scenes. susan collins and lisa murkowski we...