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Republicans. i think it's the case as many of your commentators have noted, the bill is going to change substantially in the senate. you'll see provisions around medicaid to equalize the treatment of states that did the medicaid expansion and states that did not. more generous support for low income americans to purchase health insurance. the bill you see leaving the house will look very different than the bill that will return from the senate weeks, perhaps months from now. the process has long way to go. we shouldn't take away from the fact this is a significant accomplishment for the presid...

As we went through this process, and it took weeks, some people wanted it to take a couple days. we said we're going to take the time to get it right because it affects every person in the country. every change that was made along the way made this bill better. almost every change that was made along the way was focused on lowering premiumsism of course, you had a lot of other things wooec things we wanted to do. we reformed the medicaid program. so we actually give governors and states the flexibility to go and be innovative and do things that will -- in a much more targeted way -- help low i...

Throughout the entire election cycle, this is along with building a wall on the u.s./mexico border this is without question his biggest campaign promise. they are clearing one major hurdle in getting this through the house today. still has to go through the the senate. when you talk to officials, you understand that's going to be part of the process. heading into the vote, they weren't making assurances to house republicans, by the way when your bill gets to the senate it's not going to undergo major changes. it will. the question of course becomes when it comes back to the house after it unde...

Minute, how is this going to affect my state? how is this going to affect me? people need to start asking lots of questions about this. as you go into the senate debate on this bill. >> the victory celebration continues in the rose garden over at the white house. republican members of congress, they are speaking, celebrating this victory in the house of representatives. i want to bring in our senior political commentator, david axelrod. very quickly, do you remember after obamacare the affordable care act was passed in the house and then went on to the senate, was there a celebration in the ro...

Bring them into the white house. i want to meet with them. i want to talk to them about how we can lower premiums. president trump knows obamacare fairs. but it's failing because it's hurting people. ultimately, all of the meetings that we had along the way, that made this bill better were focused on those objectives. and that's why it's so important we got this first step done today. there's a lot of work left to be done. i look forward to the senate taking the action they need to take. ultimately getting a bill to president trump's desk that he'll sign that actually rescue families from this...