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Fatal. i love being solicitor general which is why i left judging. >> i'm glad you're not a judge anymore. you be one of a thousand and we never hear from you. it's very important that you're here to give commentary on what's taking place in washington. i've studied this, you've lived this as an independent counsel which was quite different. you had all these rules you had to follow as a matter of federal law and congress came to its senses and said we don't like this and they let it lapse. let's talk about coming to our senses. what's going on in the house of representatives today has never t...

About these folks? if so, maybe they will start to work with trump. >> a republican strategist has been a critic believes that letting it lapse is the wrong thing to do. >> it will have negative economic consequences for a lot of employers and a lot of people who benefit from having dreamers in the economy in terms of being taxpayers and consumers. >> in the election, canada trump railed against daca insisting for president obama to arbitrarily carve out an exception was unconstitutional. >> we will immediately terminate president obama's illegal executive amnesties in which he defied federal ...

Senate -- was to make a non- popular bill more popular. >> well, look, this is what i would say to answer your question. with respect to preexisting condition, as you know, most people with preexisting condition were already covered, one by federal law that if you were in a group plan you couldn't be eliminated and mostly by state laws that did what obamacare did. obamacare covered very few on that provision, number one. number two, you are right, obamacare dramatically expanded medicaid. i can tell you very few republicans want to expand medicaid, and in fact the provisions we're working on i...

Who are poorer, people who are older, and people who are sicker. think about the opposite of that, people who are young and healthy and have enough money, they are not as worried about this particular issue and they are also not ones who are accessing the health care system as much. but there are some 117 million people in this country who have chronic disease, chronic illness, and they are the ones who are probably paying the closest attention to what's happening right now. with regard to pre-existing conditions, basically what has happened here is they have said states can now decide whether...

>> that's up to cbo. >> we are looking at continuous coverage, this is not a novel concept, by the way. you can still find a similar version of this to cover pre-existing conditions and medical part b, medicare part d and in the employer market. we modeled it after that. one of the issues we found is that some people were gaming the system with guaranteed issue. it is not they had a pre-existing condition necessarily, it's that they paid for nine months of insurance, get 12, the other automatically come back into market. that's part of what's causing the spiral downward. what we want to make s...