Off Lot News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Others saying you know what? we don't want a trade war. we don't need that kind of static right now. the economy seems to be going along pretty well. we had good numbers this week. why would you want to disrupt that? and i think for a lot of people this question then extends to the leadership issue you are hearing discussed here this morning. my take on this is when you talk about american leadership, you have to understand, we have the biggest economy in the world. we have the biggest military in the world. we can set an example for other countries. it may be that at some point you say hey, w...

>> in fairness that's the point i was trying to take away from you. a lot of it was already in trouble. >> let me say this, over this last year, we have heard message after message about the need to repeal and replace. it's created total instability in the system. i think insurers rightly don't know what's going on. so we know that there are things that can be done to strengthen the affordable care act that republicans and democrats can agree on, things like removing the excise tax, making sure that we provide greater incentives for young people to be in the system, so that we have a greater p...

Had just now senator who really understands this issue. who i think was able to outline as a medical doctor the right direction. they are going to keep churning for another two weeks. the deadline is good for them. the senate tends to operate best when it's faced with a really big deadline. and i think they will get something done before the august break. chris: but what about brit's question because that is one of the big concerns, and president obama and the democrats expanded medicaid, covered people that weren't previously covered, millions of people got it under there, this -- while it is...

Panel. so brit, mitch mcconnell didn't want his g.o.p. colleagues to go home for this recess. concerned that spending a lot of time with their voters at home would only weaken support not strengthen support for repeal and replace. how much trouble are republicans in now in passing a bill? >> well i think the bill is in trouble and we will have to be revised and whether it can be revised to the point where it can gather a majority in the senate is a question. and what is really troubling about this is this is at the heart of these repeal and replace efforts is the reform of medicaid, not to cut...

How concerned are voters? how concerned are folks when they read and obviously this fellow was aware of it, the cbo report that tens of millions of people could lose their health insurance under the plans republicans are putting forward >> they are very concerned. you are hearing two different arguments. you are hearing first folks saying listen i'm paying $1700 a month for insurance. before obama care i was paying 800. i have $6,000 deductibles per family member. you also have folks with disabilities who are concerned they will lose their coverage for the disability. that shows that healthcar...