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I have two maine senators coming on the show later today. i will ask senator susan collins about that maine risk pool. i want to go to taxes here. by the way, on health care, i know the president stressed the house votes in the next couple of weeks. you going to be able to sign a new version of health care, whether it's full repeal and replace or not, by the end of this year? >> i believe through a series of bills, that first one that we are hopeful there will be action in the house of representatives soon, and through executive action, and through further legislation that we'll deliver on o...

For preexisting conditions, and the flexibility that you're referring to in this latest mcarthur amendment, states can only apply for that waiver and flexibility if they have either a federal or state high-risk pool that guarantees that people will be able to have coverage, and it will be affordable. >> by the way, terrific segue. i have two main senators coming on the show later today. i will ask senator susan collins about that main risk pool. i'm going to go to taxes. by the way, on health care, i know the president expects a house vote in the next couple of weeks. are you going to be able ...

Of them to be put into plans where they will still get coverage, and the loophole may be when they put together a high risk pool and that could change some of the costs for those people. those were some of the r reservations i had, and there will be a number of people, as long as they stay in the system, that was one of the real problems as you well know, young people not signing up and getting in and out or people not getting signed up until they get sick. so this is designed to try and address that issue, but there's always a loophole that can change some of the dynamics. >> the president, a...

Repeal and replace oak obamacare. kasie hunt helped breaks those -- that news. kasie, what's changed here? >> well, stef, yesterday you had the freedom caucus say they're going to support these changes to the american health care act, the republican repeal and replace bill that got pulled from the floor in something of an embarrassing moment for the house speaker and for president trump, but now the conservatives that were preventing that vote from happening successfully have said we will get on board with a couple changes. it would allow states to opt out of requiring insurers to give people ...

Reassurances for people who are worried about the new one? >> we are making very good progress. we're going to go and we have the votes. something tells me i'll be the first to know when that happens. i would argue that this is a bill that a moderate one more want to support. some people were concerned about ehb's. they were taken out of the bill, essential health benefits. there in the federal law and estate would have to find a waiver for essential health benefits. every state is a little different. in wisconsin, we had a high risk pool that worked really well and we can be given the kind of...