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Entitlement, bloc granting it back to the states, and capping its growth rate. that's never been done before. >> correct. that is cutting benefits to poor people through medicaid more dramatically than those benefits have ever been cut before. the congressional budget office issued its official estimate today for the republican health care bill. it projects that 24 million people will lose their health insurance, which brings us to the biggest lie donald trump has ever told about health care. >> everybody's got to be vered. this is an unrepublican then for me to say because a lot of times they...

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 a 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 insurance would essentially double under this proposal, reversin...

>> i think the simplest way to look at this proposal, the cbo verified this, we're cutting medicaid by about 25%. and to remind everybody what medicaid does, medicaid is a program that takes care of kids, low-income people, seniors in long-term care, and people with disabilities. that's it. when you cut 25% from that, you really leave governors in states with very, very stark choices over which of those sets of people aren't going to get benefits? because states as we know have to balance their budgets every year. and with a cap and a cut, and i want to repeat that, they're not just cutting by...

>> good location, all that stuff. thank you, rachel. today, one of donald trump's little lies, an important lie but a little lie, was exposed by sean spicer. and one of his biggest, cruelest lies was exposed by a republican who has figured out how many people will lose their health insurance thanks to donald trump, who promised that no one would lose their health insurance under his plan. >> 24 million more people would be uninsured in the next decade than under the current law. >> if you're looking at the cbo for accuracy, you're looking in the wrong place. >> we disagree strenuously with t...

And one of his biggest, cruelest lies was exposed by a republican who has figured out how many people will lose their health insurance thanks to donald trump, who promised that no one would lose their health insurance under his plan. >> 24 million more people would be uninsured in the next decade than under the current law. >> if you're looking at the cbo for accuracy, you're looking in the wrong place. >> we disagree strenuously with the report that was put out. >> when they hear something they don't like, they label it a lie. >> this is a political disaster for trump if this thing actually g...