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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...

Centrist bill, can mitch mcconnell get to 50 when rand paul says if it doesn't fully repeal obamacare, i'm not there. well, that's two. that means he's got not guilty left to spare. mitch mcconnell said yesterday i might not get to 50. he said that is very revealing. he doesn't usually tip his hand. this was a signal. this was a statement. we're in trouble here. don't expect anything. not to beat up on the house republicans again, though i will, this puts them in a terrible position because a lot of them defended their vote on that bill, the first bill as well, we want to move the process alon...

Taking away health coverage. >> that's the hard part. listen to the house speaker paul ryan. yes, he knows the cbo numbers for the most part are bad for republicans. he's trying to make the point obamacare is a mess, we have to do something. >> under obamacare average premiums have gone up by nearly $3,0 $3,000. in law did not drop premiums as promised. between premiums surging up and choici choices going away, obamacare on is an unsustainable path. >> he makes a valid point. you look at blue cross pulling out in kansas and mi sour re. united pull out tlchl t. the costs are not going down. rep...

The state so to their point obamacare is in big trouble and i want to pivot to the big story on all the national papers. james comey is hearing yesterday it makes him feel mildly nauseous he may have had an impact on this election but he also talked about bill clinton and the importance he played about all of this. here is what the acting fbi director said. >> ing and the capper was her meeting with president clinton on that airport was the capper for me and i then said you know the department cannot be itself credibly end this. the best chance we have is if i do something that i never imagine...

The government will release more complete numbers including figures from medicaid and state-run marketplaces next month but this latest surge of activity puts overall enrollment on pace to meet this bold prediction made before christmas. >> we have a couple million people, maybe more, who are going to have health care on january 1st, and that is a big deal. >> reporter: what's not clear is how many people still may not have coverage starting january 1st due to problems with the site the government has worked overtime to fix. and not everyone is celebrating the numbers. california republican da...