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Have to remember a lot of people like a lot of provisions. >> so much will be determined by what remembers are able to accomplish and sometimes you don't want to be the dog that catches up to the car and republicans have used obamacare to bludgeon because here's the thing about the health care industry. it's incredibly complex, premiums almost always go up and president obama and democrats own health care. the question for republicans is do they want to be the owners of health care going in 2017, 2018, 2019? and they say they're on the replacement measure or delay it three or four years. that ...

2019? and they say they're on the replacement measure or delay it three or four years. that will be hard so i think obamacare's legacy, let's see what the situation is like twenty twenty after t 2020 and what the health care environment looks like. >> let's hear from the man himself before he headed on vacation. npr sat down with president obama and asked him about obamacare, here's what he said. >> i could not be prouder of the fact that the uninsured rate has never been lower. that 20 million people have health insurance we didn't have before. but i said when the bill passed that it wasn't p...

Like a lot of provisions. sometimes you don't want to be the dog that catches up to the car. and republicans have used obamacare to really bludgeon. here's the thing about the health care industry. it is incredibly complex. premiums almost always go up. the question for republicans, do they want to be the owners of health care in 2017, 2018, 2019? some of it on, our replacement measure. we'll delay it three or four years. that will be so, so hard. so i think obamacare's legacy, let's see in 2020, after all the legislative stuff and what the health care environment looks like. >> let's hear fro...

78.7 billion would have been added on to the federal deficit. it is not clear that in order to round up the votes he needs that number has to be reduced as zero. this really is, shannon a struggle for the soul of the democratic party between those who believe we should now pivot hard to deficit reduction measures because the economy is in recovery and those who like senator bob casey of pennsylvania believes we should still be spending as we did in the stimulus period as if we were in an emergency. >> if it helps to pay for a particular provision to get a vote or two and get the bill passed i ...

House that is working hand in hand with congressal leaders to get -- congressional leaders to get to yes. so let's bring in mark lam kin, former senior ad visor to former house speaker john boehner, and doug schoen, former adviser to president bill clinton and a fox news contributor. welcome to you both. >> thank you, laura. >> thank you for having me. laura: let's talk about this. do you agree with that quote in the "wall street journal" that the trump administration is doing more to work with congressional leaders on this? doug, i'll start with you. >> well, i'm sure they're doing more to wo...