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>> president xi wants to do the right thing. we had a very good bonding. >> reporter: during his campaign, trump repeatedly slammed federal reserve chair janet yellen. >> she is obviously political. and she is doing what obama wants her to do. >> reporter: this week the president changed his tune, telling the "wall street journal" i like her, i respect her. switching positions is hardly new for donald trump. after all, not long before he ran as an anti-abortion, anti-obamacare republican, he was a supporter of abortion rights and a universal health care system. in an interview early in his cam...

Dark side of universal care, the cancer drugs you don't get in europe because they put in roi. you're a certain age. your life expectancy does not justify the cost and you're not going to get the treatment. we give people 85 years old a replacement hip if they need it and people making 20 grand. i don't understand why you are unwilling to own that reality it seems to be a wheel of progress because you're trying to have it both ways. >> it's not a reality until it happens and we don't agree on the people going to lose coverage. the debate on universal coverage or single payer system we had that...

That we will call for a moment. it was trying to create a federal one payer system. if we begin means testing people were carefully, we began providing assistance, but maybe not as generous and asking states to pay their fair share. we began to move towards perhaps 50 million people who will have to change. they won't be anyone other care. they won't be the classic medicaid, but it will be people in between who may receive a credit to have to come out of their pocket a little more for thstate to have to step up and put in the historic 50% to two medicaid expansion that they haven't done up unt...

What do they say? the problem is the republicans and -- you can correct me if you want. they think the free market solves this problem. they had plenty of time when george bush was president and they were running congress to come up with a health care flan and they didn't because they don't think it's the job of the government. now they're stuck in a situation where fox business morning moved the conversation to a point where americans now view this as not an entitlement, but a right. so, republicans are trying to have it both ways, but they don't really believe in it. so, actually nothing is ...

For 63 days or something like that, you can be charged a premium plus 30%, but i am giving the points of push back from the other side. they will say that health care is not a right, and you can't force me to buy something just because it's good for somebody else. and that this comes down to single payer versus choice within a system, and that that's what people wanted and that's what the election determined. some people may not get the same coverage, but everybody will have access and that's what freedom is. >> so a couple responses to that. first of all access is meaningless. we all have acc...