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Us. the briefing at the white house was quite informative and feisty in a spicy kind of way. let me ask you, guy, sean spicer, the press secretary, said this bill is going to pass. i don't think there's any consequence for him to be wrong. you have to say that if you're the president. what are you hearing out of the house freedom caucus this afternoon? >> well, what i'm seeing is the fact that first the freedom caucus went down there. now the tuesday group, moderates, are heading down to the white house. in my estimation, these things wouldn't be happening if house leaders felt confident that ...

Sort of an extraordinary thing to watch. >> dana: i have to say, i am impressed with your basketball reference. i do think those sports metaphors should be used in the appropriate season. so i congratulate you on that. >> unlike chris starwald, i can't make rodeo references because that's not my game. >> dana: you look like a basketball player. let me ask maryanne, what do the democrats want? i'm assuming they want it to pass so they can then blame everything that's to come on republicans. >> that's right. and i thought chris just made the exact point everyone needs to be watching. if trump cu...

Give them too much, do you freeze out people like congressman beutler who says, i can't do this at this point? do you lose some of the moderates? >> dana, the big news is that the moderates who were at one point willing to support paul ryan, willing to vote for compromised legislation, amid all this chaos have decided to come on record and say they cannot support whatever emerges this evening from the house. there are as many house republicans as there are members of the freedom caucus. ryan is in a no win situation. to appease the hard right members of his caucus, he's going to lose a lot of ...