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Attempt, obviously, three bills, different structures, they all failed. i think that right now, there is an interest and a concern given the reaction of americans, to what happened in all of this, wildly unpopular bill that they kept trying to promote. the that didn't work. let's work at fixing the problems. it's not -- it's not about rhetoric anymore. it's about health care. let's fix the system and i think there is broad bipartisan support to do that. >> how about the immigration bill that the white house just got behind? h do you think it has a chance of passing and makes the words fr from ...

The problems continue to come out. they are all going to have some tough votes ahead. >> senator cruz saying eventually they will get back to this. in your opinion, i know this is just spit falling, but at what point do you think they might get back to discussing this for all the americans were hoping we would have a repeal at least sometime soon and a replacement? >> i think that is a great question. we saw some of the back and forth there as senator mcconnell was saying. the next thing up as the national defense authorization bill about the pentagon. i think senator schumer stood up and said...

We're up to f, and you can't get much worse of a grade than f. they have been calling this the skinny -- the skinny proposal as you know, the skinny plan. to me, when you look at that cbo score today, the congressional budget office score, this is nothing but a skin and bones plan. that's what it leaves so many americans with. 16 million people would be kicked off their health insurance, premiums up by 20%. and not only that, one sixth of the american economy in complete chaos because there would be no end result because even if they passed this, they would then go home, and there would be no ...

Doing this when we have people that could work together. we have opened the doors and said, let's work on reducing prescription drug costs, strengthening these exchanges and making them more affordable. that's what we would like to do. >> i know that the democrats have been a united front on this. democrats have been voting no on all of these aca repeal bills no matter what they are. is it your sense, though, that the democrats -- sorry -- that the republicans are going to be able to put together enough votes to pass something? my sense is that they don't really care what they're going to pass...

>> well, i just don't think it makes sense to repeal now and then suddenly put 30 or 32 million people, you know, taking away their coverage, that's going to create chaos. and, you know, especially in rural areas, i know in colorado, when you look at rolling back medicaid, you look at the consequences of not providing, you know, stability to the private market, it impacts rural coloradans and rural americans much more directly and so these are many people who support the president, and i think they're going to hopefully they reach out to them. i know they have in the past, but reach out and sa...