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Looks like obamacare light. and a little later a white house staffer tweeted the bill being delivered to his office. while also published an op-ed with congressman mark meadows calling for a full repeal before taking a debate on what should be replaced. and over and over again, the senator tarred that plan as obamacare light. >> we should repeal obamacare, but we shouldn't replace it with obamacare light. there are a lot of provisions that i think are still going to be in this version that are obamacare lite. they continue to be subsidies. they call them refundable tax credits, but it's giving...

Reform, getting rid of the taxes and mandate. i think getting it to the senate allows step two to come forward. i don't agree it's obamacare light. but it is mostly the medicaid devolution. >> everything they've done, it seems some form of this bill, and whatever comes out of the house will be a more conservative version that comes out of the senate. how will they pass a bill that democrats won't be able t say well, we're just going to use this architecture and we're going to go back to the old medicaid formulas. seems like it's easy. >> if medicaid is deinvolved to the states, that's a signif...

This whole thing took the white house staff by surprise when the president came out and said what he said on saturday morning. so they were scrambling to put some reasoning behind it and figure a way out of it by dumping it to the intelligence committees. they think they have taken it off of the white house's plate. senator mccain said if you're going to level an accusation like that you need to back it up. >> i think the president of the united states who has stated category that trump tower was wiretapped, he should come forward with the information that led him to that conclusion. it's a se...

The kind of sensitive information we may need in order to be able to protect our security. >> what's shocking to me, and maybe to you, is after snowden and earlier leaks, it's happened again. i thought they took steps at the cia, the nsa, other intelligence agencies, the pentagon, to make sure this doesn't happen any longer, but if it's true, it has happened. that's pretty shocking. your reaction? >> wolf, you know, my understanding is that there are literally thousands of pages that were hacked and that wikileaks has and they've been kind of drip, drip, dripping this stuff out not only during...

Because it's a serious gap. >> they've got splintering on two sides. you have conservatives who say the bill does not go far enough in repealing obamacare and have republicans, moderate, mainstream conservatives particularly states who expandsed medicaid who says it goes too far in undoing, leaves too many people out in the cold. to be honest, the first estimates we have, we don't have the definitive congressional budget office estimate, they're moving forward without that. the first estimate with we had today, half of all the people who gain coverage under obamacare would lose it uchnder this...