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Fear that tomorrow and changing it might be worse. also it's toxic in washington for a party in power to take away benefits already provided. throwing 11 million newly insured off medicare rules could hurt many. >> they got better coverage under this law then they had before. for low income people that had a hard time affording premiums in the pre-obamacare world, they got pretty big subsidies. >> president trump said tuesday that free market forces will play a big part in the g.o.p. plan. tax credits and expanded health savings account come up giving more flexibility to the states and medicai...

Who needed specific action taken. he wanted the secretary of health and human services to say that he was not ripping off medicare. he was being accused of ripping off medicare. he gave all sorts of gifts to -- to menendez. menendez went to harry reid and menendez and harry reid went together to sebelius to try to intervene in this case. now, sebelius told them look this is out of my hands. the medicare investigators are going to go about their business, and if they find that he's committed fraud, they are going to go forward with that. there were a couple other cases where menendez intervened...

Willing to consider $400 billion more in revenues as a starting point from tax reform if the president is keeping his offer on the table. and, david, as you know, these are tough things the president agreed to. means testing, medicare. that means higher premiums for well off medicare recipients. $400 billion over 10 years in medicare savings. and the hardest of all -- >> just to point out -- >> of the consumer price index. >> that's not what senate democrats put in their replacement legislation. so when it came to the legislative fight, because this is tough for democrats. they're not onboard....

Willing to consider $400 billion more in revenues as a starting point from tax reform if the president is keeping his offer on the table. and, david, as you know, these are tough things the president agreed to. means testing, medicare. that means higher premiums for well off medicare recipients. $400 billion over 10 years in medicare savings. and the hardest of all -- >> just to point out -- >> of the consumer price index. >> that's not what senate democrats put in their replacement legislation. so when it came to the legislative fight, because this is tough for democrats. they're not onboard....

Increase that came out of that. there was not balance which is what the president says he's for now. there was no spending cuts. it was just revenue. that's what the speaker said. you got your revenue. now where are the cuts? >> let me answer. obviously, the president wanted the balanced agreement. the speaker walked away. we wanted an agreement that included long-term entitlement reform. and we give the speaker credit for the $600 billion. but i'll do a simple math equation, david. if he put $1 trillion of revenue on the table 10 weeks ago, and $600 billion has been passed, if he was keeping ...