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This is ancient history now. but it is easy to stop these things. andira, what's so fascinating about what david said, elementary republican politics is the safest way within the republican world to attack this bill is from the right. because that will block any challenge to you in a primary from the right over this issue. that's not what i heard tom cot s ton say. he said he's worried about adverse consequences for millions of americans and it wouldn't deliver on the promise to reduce the cost of health insurance. but adverse consequences for millions of americans is what chuck schumer, eliza...

How you get tom cotton to vote for this bill in the senate. i listened to what he said. he's as far away from that bill as nancy pelosi is. >> i mean, one reason he may be far away from that is, let's not forget arkansas, his state, is one of the states that saw one of the most dramatic increases in coverage under obamacare for noncollege-educated whites. if you look across the country, there was a 39% increase between 2010 and 2015 in noncollege-educated whites' health care coverage. from what the cbo released today, their analysis indicates a lot of those same people, many of whom were in fa...

Gains from the affordable care act. at the same time the federal government would save a lot of money on health insurance subsiies which this legislation would use partly to roll back the tax increases in the affordable care act, give more money back to higher-income people, and partly reduce federal borrowing. >> part of the way they save money is people who are subsidized up to amounts of $12,000, $13,000, would only get a subsidy, if they got a subsidy at all, of $4,000 or less? >> right. so the subsidies, people can get through these insurance marketplaces would fall by about half by the e...

Obamacare is collapsing and we must act decisively to protect all americans. >> joining us, douglas elmendorf, american economist, and professor of public policy at harvard kennedy school, he was the director of the congressional budget office 2009 to 2015. also former acting administrator of the centers for medicare and medicaid services from 2015 to 2017. doug doug, you can't envy the cbo having to struggle with this one. i want to get your reaction to what cbo projected today about this plan. >> well, the congressional budget office estimated that the number of americans without health insu...

The trump administration, which would presumably be office of management and budget, their own calculations indicated that even more people would lose health insurance than the cbo estimate so far. so this is -- these estimates are still a developing story. thank you very much for joining us tonight. david frum, we're going to talk to you in another segment. coming up, donald trump remains cowering in silence whenever a reporter speaks in the his presence. had. the classes, the friends, the independence. and since we planned for it, that student debt is the one experience, i'm glad she'll mi...