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National affairs analyst, and contributor to "time" magazine with us. also with us political reporter robert costa. let's set up the big week, possibly bloody for republicans on the floor of the senate fighting to get this health care bill passed. if you look at the daily news, one of the papers the president is supposed to read or look at the pictures, the headline says revolt. i'm not sure we're there yet, but the president is juggling a lot of concerns from conservatives and also moderates . get us up to date. >> the president is juggling issues, but so is mitch mcconnell. they are trying t...

Republicans could pass this bill, flaws and all, and then use the projected cost savings for a tax reform that's actually organized around tax cuts, a larger earned income tax credit and other measures that would make up for the thinking of working class coverage with more cash in paychecks and bank accounts. if that happens i will recant my opposition to this bill, but i don't expect any such recantation to be required because the republican party remains what it is. lonnie, from the beginning of this health care debate when you would ask anybody on the hill, why are you starting with health ...

We're going to try to get together with democrats and figure out what are things we might be able to do. >> we're trying to decipher what trump is thinking. i don't think donald trump, the president, even knows what he's thinking. when you hear him talk, this is a mean bill. i like to spend more money. it seems to me if these republican bills go down the president is in a place and could get democrats in and say what he's saying now. i want to spend more money not a mean bill. the way he seems to be governing, he puts his name on stuff and the content is trump, it's trump care. that's all that...

Providers such as our rural hospitals and nursing home. most of whom are very dependent on the medicaid program. so threading that needle is going to be extremely difficult. >> and something that i'm sure bob costa, the senator from maine saw over the weekend, there's a study that said in portland, maine, a 60-year-old with a middle income with pay $290 more, that's a 208% increase. premiums will be 38% of income. certainly that's numbers people have been to be making. it seems like older less affluent seniors will take the hit here. >> there's another point to consider. if these moderates lik...

Medicaid, not to touch medicare. that's what i don't understand completely the disconnect between what the president thinks of this and where republican leaders are. it just does not seem to me this is a bill that this president ran on in 2016. >> it's not. you can go down the list of the promises donald trump made, and it's just objectively you can line them up here and everything he promised to voters in wisconsin, michigan, ohio, and pennsylvania he's violated with these bills. and on top of that, eddie, only 14% of americans support these bills. and we don't even have the cbo numbers out o...