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With this bill they decided with the health bill as well that if they do things quickly, they can just do them without consequence to them. i don't know if that's correct. this is a massively unpopular bill, like their obamacare replacement plans were. it's very much underwater. the public is angry about this. we've had protests around the country. and so we do have provisions that benefit trump certainly, and certainly members of the senate and members of the house. and the calculation seems to be that these provisions are worth the possible consequences, or that they can convince the public ...

Republican districts and 5.2 live in democratic districts and we think about what the president is thinking on this, by brian, let me ask you, conservative groups are sending this warning shot saying don't give up on this issue. the president saying that, as well. conservative groups want to say that these senators that voted no against the skinny repeal are sellouts. do you agree with that? >> yes, i agree that they're sellouts. republicans for seven years fhae promised to repeal and replace obamacare and they failed to do it. democrats unified and not one democrat voted for any of these repl...

Seven-plus years. it's going to stay a lot about mitch mcconnell. he has so much on the line today. he has a reputation as being a legislative mastermind. we'll see if it turns out that way. but the reality, too, is that we don't know what the bill will look like if they do actually start to debate it. we don't know if it will be straight repeal, repeal and replace, some variation of that, and neither do the senators who are voting on it. our team has talked to several of them over the last 12 to 24 hours and they just said, look, we have no idea what this is going to look like. and that has i...

Markets. and what the republicans and president trump crave is a win. so it's kind of not how you would have an orderly transition in the marketplace no matter what your politics are. i think it's kind of a trick if you just repeal. we have to look at what the effective date will be in that piece of legislation. that's crucial and will tell the whole story of whether it's a glorified press release or a step to fixing what's wrong with our health system. i suspect if you have an outside date years away of effectiveness, it's just symbolic and not a way to fix the system. >> so, david, one of yo...

The medicaid program. >> it's hard to see how it gets passed this week. senator cornyn says the deadline is august 1 it's, and that time will not make things any easier. he may be right. the most recent keiser poll shows for the first time ipts support for the affordable care act has passed 50% while just 30% of americans report replacement plans. let's talk about this more in depth. joining us from washington again is politico's daniel lipman, co-author of the political playbook. good to talk to you once again. president trump acknowledging using the term "mean" to describe the house health c...