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Steve: be involved in this flawed system. brian: i want to build on what you said. this is exactly where it went off the rails and gets political and gets people confused. the insurance companies were losing money, so they called on congress to give the insurance companies more money to subsidize. marco rubio stepgd in and said, listen, we have got to stop this. we can't keep writing blank checks to a program that's note successful, which by the way, should have been sustaining itself by now. and now they turn around and blame republicans for that as did jonathan gruber yesterday. he actually ...

Big problems. the system is imploding. and which is going to add a bit of urgency to it which will help propel the senators to do what they want them to. the early signals are right now there will be no insurance coverage in portions of tennessee and also iowa and it looks like they are going belly up with premium surges in virginia and maryland. and so when you put that in front of people like look, we have got to do something the people of maryland and virginia and iowa and tennessee have no choices, we have got to do something. ainsley: that's what's baffling. if obamacare is dead. to it is...

I was so excited last year and planning it and i found out you took the day off. that's what caused a big fight last year kind of when you never tell us when you take a day off. brian: the feud america can't get enough of. i had to move my son out of school. ainsley: home now glad to be back. ainsley: isn't it fun to have him back at home? brian: we're not sure yet. steve: 6:00 in the east. he will be up at noon. ainsley: before we get to the news though, what did you do for your birthday? brian: i went to two youth soccer games. and then we went out to eat. ainsley: you never have a birthday ...

Find unacceptable. it keeps the obamacare subsidies but just renames them as refundable tax credits. >> reporter: then there is the restructuring of medicaid, a hot button issue across the country given the program's expansion many states took under obamacare. four gop senators said they will oppose any bill that doesn't protect enrollees in their states. >> what we're trying to do is what we pledged we would do. it's not pull the rug out from anybody. >> reporter: and, jake, i got into journalism explicitly not to do math, but math here is very important. if you look kind of how things stand ...

This is exciting. this is what we've been dreaming about doing. >> we've only had this bill in public for 36 hours, and to try to rush it through this week and then vote on it within the next few weeks really does harken back to some of the problems obamacare was created under. >> this is unified republican government at work, fulfilling our promise. >> nbc's chris jansing, peter l alexander at the white house, kasie hunt on capitol hill and also analysis from michael steele, msnbc political analyst and also former rnc chairman. miss jansing let me start with you. how is the president planning...