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Kushner may speak with the Intelligence Senate Committee about possible ties to Trump Campaign officials. John roberts is live at the white house with the very latest on this developing story. Hi, john. Eric, good morning. The white house hoped this was going to be a start to a new week. Theyre trying to figure out a way forward if there is one on healthcare reform and tax reform. The president has said that he wanted to do healthcare reform first because they would free up money that he could apply to tax cuts. The president warned republicans that if healthcare didnt pass, they would move on...

Group in yemen killing a former about making sure people dont fall through the cracks. Guantanamo detainee, why was he the last admission with back on the battlefield . Obamacare focused on vacation or it is all happening now. The underserved were part of the equation. What is the safety net to ensure jenna we begin this hour that people do not fall through with what is likely to come up the cracks beyond taxes and the at the briefing, House Republican leaders finally taking a big step toward underserved who many are now replacing obamacare appeared look into the second hour of part of program...

Great to have you here. we heard this term implode, explode, you two disagree. i want to start there. michael, why do you believe that is the case with obamacare, that the case is exploding? >> insurers have been leaving the market in droves. there's 1,000 counties across the country where there's one insurer in the exchange. in east tennessee, they're already facing that situation. 43,000 residents in east tennessee that have no exchange options after december because the last carrier has left. these are people with expensive medical conditions including people that had coverage before obamac...

Know what anything cost. like what it cost to go to the doctor for a cold or a flu or a broken arm versus a broken leg. will that ever be fixed by anything? michael, you first and then larry. >> there's a series of experiments that employers have done that shows when consumers are spending their own money, they demand price information and prices fall. that's the way that congress needs to repeal and replace obamacare by giving consumers control of the money, the money that their employers spend on their benefit so they can buy affordable health insurance and you have the cost consciousness th...

Employer plans. so this whole attitude that move along, nothing to see here is -- >> jenna: an interesting point. let's ask larry about it. if it's happening in tennessee, larry, that means it could happen anywhere else, right? one has to wonder, if it was happening in areas like washington d.c. or the state of new york where the media is based, if there would be a little bit of a different urgency around this. but because it's happening in a few key areas in the country, that maybe we think not too bad. >> look, it's unacceptable if people in tennessee have no access to health insurance if th...