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Made a beeline to the restroom. unphilly unfortunately it was the door to the women's restroom. house speaker paul ryan has been trying to calm nerves by insisting the bill does not gut protections for people with pre-existing conditions. tweeted today, verified, macarthur amendment strengthens. but that is not verified despite ryan's use of the caps off button. his tweet contradicts the findings of really just about everyone who has looked at the bill including the aarp, which one hour after ryan's claim tweeted that it, quote, does not adequately protect patients with pre-existing conditions...

Preexisting conditions are actually going to be covered under the new republican health care plan. listen to a claim that the president made about it just this weekend. >> preexisting conditions are in the bill, and i mandated it. i said it has to be. >> one of the fixes that discussed preexisting was optional for the states. >> sure, in one of the fixes, and they're changing aand changing -- >> permanent? >> of course. >> joining us to discuss all of this, senior economic analyst stephen moore, distinguished visiting fellow at heritage foundation and former senior economic adviser for the tru...

Related information, you can be held accountable so enter here journalists who either fail to divulge their sources or publish or print articles that divulge national security information. that's how you can punish the media without altering the first amendment. >> so far all we've seen from the administration is huffing and puffing threats to press freedom that are only verbal, not actual action. we haven't seen anything done yet. hopefully that's all it becomes. >> you got an interesting discussion about this brian with a guy who knows a little something about journalism, about official pres...

Means that you have to not only stop insurers from excluding people, but you also have to stop them from charging people many, many multiples of those without preexisting conditions. the macarthur amendment would insist states continue to cover preexisting conditions but would allow the insurers in the states to charge those preexisting conditions $1 million a month. there's nothing stopping that. so substantively this new macarthur amendment does not include coverage of preexisting conditions. unless you not only mandate it covers them and stop insurers from price discriminating it's toothles...

Do they have any power? >> well, talking about with reince priebus saying look at the libel laws i'm assuming he read the first amendment a huge road block to any of this. every single state has a different libel law and in order for congress, a body that has authority over federal laws, would have to actually either every state change it or pass a federal libel law. even if they were able to do that the first amendment for the last 50 years in the supreme court there's very clear precedent that says look, especially for a public figure, you have an actual malice standard. very, very hard to p...