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But saying that the government -- look, i don't believe in left wing social engineering anymore than i believe in -- so the problem with this bill is the republicans have overpromised what it will do. the problem you have now is we are essentially a full employment, so the big problem is the wage gap. but there is no bill, right, that's going to make up the wage gap. unless you want to go with wage and prize controls. like nixon did. and you don't want to do that. >> you could do double the deduction for your employees. you could have targeted moves to corporations. we don't have targeted move...

>> nbc news capitol hill correspondent joins me. it's no surprised he's saying we know where the white house stands on obamacare. absolutely know. they had fine time to repeal and replace and they didn't. do they really think this is going to be in the senate bill? once they pull it out, other republicans are going to ignore other bad things and will push this thing through. >> i think there's a real chance it could end up in the senate bill. also could potentially be taken out if, in fact, susan collins draws a line in the sand over it. it's not clear yet that it's going to be enough to make ...

Never run an editorial above the fold. that will be their argument. >> does that argument work? >> you know, it's really hard in any special election to poll. because in a statewide race in a special election, it's all about turnout. it's very difficult to discern who is going to turn out. i think there will be a lot of republicans who say i'm just fed up with this and i'm not going to vote. that's what the democrats are hoping for. it remains to be seen, are there enough democrats and independents to overcome what normally would be an easy win for republicans. >> jonathan, you've been in alab...

Buying insurance. they wouldn't be mandated to do it anymore. the senator from arkansas has been the main proponent of this. he's the one who's pushing it. he basically said look, keeping this in there lets us, you know, expand some other things that could cause bigger problems. on the house side, there's a lot of people from new york and new jersey concerned about the state and local tax deduction that's very expensive. this potentially gives them some flexibility in other areas. think the question is really just going to be how much does this end up kind of in the political circular firing s...

>> yes, e think thati think tha ridiculous argument. he's not even allowed in a mall. if i were the administration, i would not even go anywhere near this and just hold the line and distance yourself as far as possible. you get nothing out of this. >> but that's the point, they're saying they're not going near it, they're saying alabama is dealing with it. >> well then they hedged a little bit, right? i think it's the hedge -- they should stop hedging and actually just distance themselves. the republicans i speak to in congress, you know, we were talking about this last week because every day ...