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Number of alabamians and also i think that's a majority number across the nation. so it's not like he would be painted as pro life. did that hurt him early on? staking out a pretty hard core position on abortion? >> it hasn't helped him. but i think it speaks to his character. i mean, he is not someone who will change his position for political expediency. and i think for folks who are looking to vote for a democrat for the first time, you could do a lot worse than doug skroejone. that our opinion. there's nothing in legislature that's going to change abortion in the next year and a half. the ...

Right? >> 12% of the country of 330 million peoples, pretty big number. that being said, t not a majority number. and what we're going to find is if these guys don't bend is that this group of people who have so dominated our politics, inject third down anger, this vitriol, they're powerless. put them out of business. that's what the opportunity right now for this country is. >> what does that mean? how do you put them out of business? >> you put them out of business by pretending they have influence. that there's a people of who have breitbart and talk radio of the republican party. what paul...

Show going after these minority millennial voters could help them fulfill that majority number they need. what do you make of this young person statement saying yeah, i vote for republicans and i would vote for democrats but they just take us for granted? >> i think it speaks to the general political climate. there are 46 million 18-29-year-olds in the country, when you look at the future of elections, that is where both parties to be focusing their energy which is on the new and evolving voter. 50% of millennials turned out in 2016 and 50% of those are people of color. that will be a critical...

The kind of agenda we're attempting to put together here, overhauling health care, overhauling the tax system, rebuilding our military, securing the border, those take more than just a few months. they take a long time. >> all right. joining us now to discuss, let's bring in former minnesota governor, former presidential candidate, tim pawlenty. jonathan swan. and another former democratic presidential candidate and former governor, msnbc contributor howard dean. thanks to all of you for joining us. jonathan, let me start with you on the reporting on this. republicans took a whack at this earl...

Deductibles are going up. that is not an option. every american, i mentioned this earlier, to make this look like a choice, there really isn't a choice. the system we have now is failing. >> reporter: now, for all of this talk of this is the only action in town, this is the only way to repeal and replace obamacare, sean spicer did acknowledge during the briefing today that the white house is working with those republican leaders on potential changes to the current plan that are aimed at boosting support for the proposal before the house votes on it. wolf, sean spicer said they don't want to se...