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Efforts may be in vain. >> well, he's president until january 20th. after that, it is our turn. so we'll see what happens. he's going to protect what he wants to do, and perhaps you can say, his legacy. but, you know, if you look at obamacare, you have in many cases over 100% increase, it is unaffordable. it doesn't work. >> obama could encounter a heated battle on capitol hill over what republicans want to repeal and replace. let's talk about this with our political panel. i want to bring back brian morganstern, a republican strategist. and republican strategist ellis. president obama sent ou...

Significant changes may mean it puts them out of business and makes it more difficult for them to be able to afford to take care of people who are receiving care as a result of this affordable care act? >> there is no easy answer. >> people were sicker than they thought but when you don't have insurance for a long time, that's what happened. you become more ill. >> when you dump people off insurance, mom takes the kid to the emergency room, which is a terrible way to get care. the simple answer is there is no good way to do it. we could go to single payer. donald trump used to speak highly of ...

The gaps on the core issues and the mistrust. like rock and roll, the peace process may never die but it doesn't mean the two-state solution may survive. i think we're setting the stage for its demise. >> aaron david miller, thank you so much. good to see you. >> always a pleasure, fred. president barack obama trying to hold on to, among other things, obamacare. he's heading to capitol hill to meet with democrats this week. will they come up with a plan to stop republican efforts to dismantle his signature achievement? a look at the political fight coming up. eyes. same nose. same toughness....

Bunch of democrats who are up for election in 2018 in states that trump won. so they are going to be motivated to work with the republicans so they can go back home and say, you know, look, identify been able to work with this administration, even though i am a democrat and you voted for trump. you should keep me in there. they have a motivation to work with the administration. >> ellis, will it prove to be more complicated than it sounds on the surface? >> well, the politics are easy. the policy is really dicey. you want to throw 20 million americans who have insurance today off the rolls, as...

Votes on replacing it, repealing it. so why can it be an easy sell, that it is a matter of repackaging it and coming up with something better, if the attempt failed already? >> they had the namesake of obamacare in the white house. that made it awfully difficult. but some of the simple measures that have been campaigned upon by republicans for years include allowing -- opening up markets between states. that's something trump campaigned on. republicans across the board campaigned on. that's one thing. but having a cost structure that allows smaller and mid-market insurance companies to compete...