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Say it's politically stupid. why? >> it as no main stream support. their plan got less than 20%. obamacare for all its flaws and it has many and it's over 50% approval, no doctors group support this bill. they're against it. that's the american medical association. patient groups like the american cancer society are against it. it has no support. it will not get a congressional budget office score which means we won't know the details the impact it will have on the budget or health care coverage before they have to vote and it will be out in public for a grand total of 17 days before the deadl...

Federal spending on both subsidies and fundamentally transforming medicaid. that was the core problem. they could never get over the line with that kind of maximal bill, i think largely because it hurt so many of their own constituents and in the process turned against them, several of the key republican governors, as well as every single interest in the medical community, from doctors and hospitals to all the patient groups and aarp and so forth. but i think the biggest thing the president did is what he didn't do, the failure to build any suppopublic bill for this b including older and blue ...

Moderate republicans and strict repeal conservatives. it's a failure of the republican r lawmakers right now to notch a victory and of trump's presidency. >> if you look at the plan, purely on republican votes, given the division within, you know, the republicans in the is that the, it seems an almost impossible task to david's point. how do they get that compromise if they're not going to work with the democrats? >> i frankly don't know. because if this bill had gone forward and gotten to conference, i don't know how you reconcile the differences between the senate republicans and house repub...

He's the one person i would argue, not necessarily a left or right on ideology grounds. someone thinking can i vote for this and still win re-election next year? that's where the political pressure letter matter. matt is right to the watch for conservative groups and other patient groups. >> they didn't like the house version. and republican members complained about the process it was done behind closed doors. i happen to think, they're not vote based on those complaints. yes, very angry but by the end of the day, most will fall in line by the end of next week? >> you might be right. i'm not s...

Hearings. by contrast mcconnell is writing his bill in secrecy excluding democrats and the public. l.a. times reports 15 patient groups asked mcdonl office to meet with them. they were told mcconnell is too busy. it's being drafted by 14 men no women who won't share the text with their republican colleagues. >> none of us have seen the language of the bill. washington post reports at least one senator complained the digital slides are flashed across the screen so quickly they can hardly be committed to memory. senate republicans can't say what the bill is trying to do. five times fox reporters...