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Going forward without it whereas you have seenior house republicans who say they agree with senator mccain and it's time to start from a clean sheet of paper. this is the opposite of how the bill came forward and no committee hearings and no mark-ups and no real, i guess, amendments to the actual bill on the floor before it was passed. so, you know, there's a division there, and there are a number of republicans who want to move in a good direction. he controls the purse strings on these legally ambiguous cost-sharing subsidies and his hhs can decide to whether they can make the case that the ...

Talk about a approximate proposal that nobody has ever discussed before their own particular idea on the process. and the reason why we are where we are is because we've had no mark ups, no deliberation, no norm pal system. people are just -- to be honest, spit bawling ideas out there and the idea that we're actually going to decide issues that affect people's health insurance in this kind of random way is just like the most irresponsible leadership i've ever seen in my life. >> i spoke this afternoon with congressman mark meadows of north carolina, the head pft freedom caucus. he's got 30 ser...

Potentially down the line, a reprieve? >> it's a reprieve, and it's only a temporary victory, if it's a victory at all, because we have stopped something truly bad and evil from happening. but the republicans have now gone from total secrecy to total chaos. they drafted this bill in complete secrecy behind closed doors. now they are in chaos and are going back to secrecy. this bill that the majority leader says he wants to submit by the end of the week will be the result again of a failed secret process. what they really need to do is sit down with democrats and follow the normal democratic pr...

First of all that made it way, there have been court, it is fought yet illegal. we don't know the answer to that question. it hasn't made it wait to the supreme court. let me ask you that specific question. why not allow that so that you don't have the panic moment? it gives you more time to pass this bill properly, maybe with committee hearings and mark-ups and things like that? >> well, as you know, president trump has continued making those payments every month, but the insurance like anthem before the election, before we knew who was going to be elected president said they were thinking of...

For all of the talk that the russia investigations are a distraction, that's a bad thing. it has been a good thing for republicans. it kept a lot of media focus from what is going on with the health care bill. both parties are criticizing all the secrecy surrounding what is going on with your health care. joining us to discuss is sarah cliff, correspondent for vox and julie rovner. good to have you here. julie, let's start with the secrecy is a bad thing and raising question about what is going on and contradictory to what the republicans said they didn't want to repeat from with obamacare. fa...