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>> martha, this isn't just the tomato-tomato debate. there are stark differences in how the g.o.p. bill is be covered today versus obamacare. for example, when the affordable care act passed in 2009, the three major networks called it historic. when the g.o.p. health bill passed the house last month, the same networks labeled it "risky." we are not think the g.o.p. bill is the magic potion for what ails the country but it is also accurate to point out that obamacare is struggling and the numbers bear that out. in october, president obama's own health and human services department estimated tha...

Here. this simultaneous replace and repeal that donald trump has referred to just can't happen. it's not going to happen unless remarkably they get some magic potion that convinces democrats to go on with their plans. even beyond that, the republican conference there's significant divisions about how to do a replace effort. even if they have -- they didn't have to deal with the democrat eck filibuster it would be hard to get united around one single plan when you have a range of ideologies and a range of policy preferences that can't necessarily be neatly accommodated in one single plan. >> th...

This simultaneous replace and repeal that donald trump has referred to just can't happen. it's not going to happen unless remarkably they get some magic potion that convinces democrats to gon with their plans. even beyond that, thds the republican conference there's significant divisions about how to do a replace effort. even if they have -- they didn't have to deal with the democrat eck filibuster it would be hard to get united around one single plan when you have a range of ideologies and a range of policy preferences that can't necessarily be neatly accommodated in one single plan. >> that'...

When the spigot stops on that that would be a big problem for the market and it created a somewhat fictitious image of what the economy was like. we heard so much about the success of the economic growth in this administration. are we learning the emperor has no clothes? >> we are so smart and so right. that's pretty much exactly what's going on. the market got way up ahead of itself. it's not to say there is no recovery. there is some growth out there, but it doesn't match the runup we have seen in the market. it's built on this easy money and the fed signaled they would come in and raise rat...

That is gross domestic product, the entire output of america. jumped 5% last quarter. that is the biggest jump we have seen in a quarter since 2003. it was driven by consumer spending. you have stock buy backs and corporate earnings and all this stuff plus low gas prices and a strong macro economic number and factor that into the magic potion that is the stock market. what you get is dow 18,000. a reminder of viewers, in march of 2009, the dow was around 6500. we are now at 18,000. that is a 180% gain from the march 2009 lows. how far we have come. >> wow. brian sullivan, thanks for that on th...