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Graham, senator cassidy and others that have come together to keep the promise to the american people. as the president said, obamacare is collapsing. american families and businesses are bearing the burden. this president and our administration is committed to support graham-cassidy, move forward legislation and give the american people a fresh start on healthcare reform. not with government mandates but by repealing the mandates on businesses and individuals and giving resources to the states to create healthcare solutions to work for each individual state. >> for seven years repeal and repl...

>> thank you very much. thank you. >> is graham-cassidy going to pass? >> i think it has a good chance. obamacare is failing. people cannot afford obamacare. it's been a catastrophic situation. i believe that graham-cassidy will do it the right way. it is doing it the right way. tremendous support from republicans. certainly we're 47 or 48 already senators and a lot of others are looking at it positively. mike pence is looking at it. our vice president has done a great job with health care and knows healthcare so well. >> president trump made a commitment to the american people that we would r...

Be. [ applause ] >> the jimmy kimmel test should be no family denied care because they can't afford it. can that be the jimmy kimmel test? as simple as that? is that oversimplifying it? >> if that's as close as we get, that works great in government. >> and that was a very slippery politician's answer that jimmy kimmel's audience hearing there. he did not actually agree with jimmy kimmel's version of the kimmel test. instead, he said that the idea was on the right track and now that very same senator cassidy is pushing a health care bill that will repeal and replace obamacare and would complet...

Reuben for "the washington post" and, jennifer, you wrote about this cassidy/graham bill today for "the washington post" and jimmy kimmel tweeted the article to the 10 million followers and you make the point clearly in the article that the cassidy bill fails the kimmel test. >> that's right. one of the things it does, for example, is put a per capita, caps the medicaid for every state. so that people who are enjoying medicaid benefits won't in the future. we are not just talking about rolling back the extension of medicaid. we are talking about a worst cut for medicaid. we are talking about g...

Version of regular order if that's what they pretend to do? >> that's a great point. you think about it, think about what senator mccain's legacy will be if he reverses himself under something that he got universal play debts for and will be in a situation of passed the most partisan, one-sided bill by a partisan process only, of course, to have the democrats very likely attempt to do the next thing in the next election and so on and so on and so on. all due respect to his friendship of senator graham and his loyalty to the party, he would be setting off a wave of things long probably beyond t...