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Chief strategist. not to understate that, actually a larger than life figure, steve bannon shown the door, but the new chief of staff, maybe he picks a new strategist? works with the president on that. it's not about the paren knell. personnel but the president. every aspect goes back to the campaign. the campaign is over. he's president. obamacare is still the law of the land. an event the other day evolved into what you just played, supposed to be infrastructure, that plan doesn't even exist. i know trump voter are incredibly loyal to this president. at some point, they're good, common sense...

Shortly. while we are waiting for the vice president, joining me now, an important figure in these discussions, republican congressman lee zelden. let me get your reaction to the news overnight that the senate version of repeal and replace failed. >> well, this particular plan doesn't have the votes based on the development last night. there are many options on how to improve health care in the country, coverage for people with health care in the country. senator mcconnell is going to move on to the next option to see if he can get to what is nearly a unanimous vote of senator colleagues, whic...

Laura? >> think so far the plans republicans have put out are just not great. the cbo score is terrible. knocks 22 million people off insurance. i don't think anybody likes that. i don't think anybody likes the deep medicaid cuts. this plan doesn't seem to be popular even with republicans in congress. they can't get the votes to pass it. they've been trying to do this for months. coming up with different bills and not being able to get the votes. if they can't get it passed in republican-controlled house and senate, how is the public supposed to get behind it? >> good point. how about john mci...

The fundamental flaw is that if you make insurance expensive to buy through regulations, but tell people they can buy it after they get sick, that leads to the death spiral that we have with obamacare. the republican plan doesn't fix that. the republican plan acknowledges the death spiral of obamacare will continue. they're doing to subsidize it with this massive bailout super fund. that is simply a bail-out of the death spiral of obamacare and an acknowledgement that they won't fix the death spiral. >> neil: so what happens in the interim? you're very, very good at getting through all of thes...

Shaky ground in congress. a new cbo, congressional budget office report says the house passed bill to repeal and replace obamacare would cause 23 million americans to lose their health coverage by 2026. it would lower premiums for younger and healthy americans but would drive up costs for many of those so-called essential health benefits covered by obamacare. the white house says the cbo innocent to be believed. but it is the official rating agency as theo bills make their way through congress. the house bill falls well short of the promises made by candidate trump. >> this campaign promise wa...