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On premiums. >> i wish i had graphics for you, in 2018 under the new plan, premiums would be 20% higher than under obamacare. by 2019, they'd be 10% higher. by 2020, 30% lower. and by 2026, 20% lower. there's a piece of math you have to understand here, however. the congressional budget office has been calculating the basic obamacare silver package as being a value of 70%. called an actuarial value. what they're saying is under the new senate program so many things will be taken out like the possibility of guaranteeing essential health benefits that they're taking it from 70% down to 58%. you ...

Comes to health care has been a man without a plan. >> alex -- hang on. isn't john boehner on to something when he said at the beginning of this debate that once you give someone something it's -- i mean, if one person whose kid with asthma loses care that's a political crisis. and in this climate, it seems pretty untenable to drop 22 million people from coverage. >> right, the long term political problem for the republicans right now is that we are going to own the health care system regardless of what happens in the next week. if we don't pass anything it's our fault. if we pass something it...

They know how -- >> do you see some of the same -- i remember 2010 and there were grass roots emotions in opposition to obamacare but don't you see a parallel to grass roots opposition now against taking away the care that it provided? >> it's easier to be against something than for it. harder to make an argument against it than make the affirmative case for why this is good legislation. we have not heard the affirmative case for why this is better than the status quo. president trump has not given a single speech about health care in the last month. he hasn't made the argument. >> you're hold...

>> let me get you in. obamacare was never as popular as it became when republicans started messing with it. >> right. that's because obamacare was there to be a substantive policy. it had a coherent plan. there was a goal. >> was it sustainable? >> yes, absolutely. if we don't have the republicans sabotaging obamacare right now it would be in the peril overstated as that is by them. >> most democrats will admit it needed some tweaks. >> publicly most democrats would admit it. but this is why the cameras are off in the white house. they know that 22 million is the head line because those are pe...

>> let me read what i think was the president's attempt to give some cover i'm guessing to senate republicans. he tweeted this morning, recommend can senators are working very hard to get their there with no help from the democrats. not easy. perhaps just let o care crash and burn. he seems to be prespinning a predicted defeat. do you think he's bracing himself for this not to work out? >> i think -- i mean, this is something he's said previously for a couple of months now. he said this in the house bill when things looked touch and go. it's definitely his attempt obviously at blame shifting a...