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The need of the country. so i do give poor marks for the discipline at the white house, high marks for how they're executing the day-to-day operations. >> we're going to come back to that. let's get into some of the things he's trying to get done that he hasn't been able to do yet. a deal to overhaul health care policy in america appears to be getting a bit closer. conservative members of the freedom caucus came out in support of the new agreement. the new amendment is an attempt to appease some conservatives by allowing states to get a waiver for regulations on insurance companies that protec...

While those are the changes in play, the moderates are not on board yet. i just came from a closed door meeting. they are not sold on this plan yet. it's a positive step forward but we're far from out of the woods in this process. it will keep going, brooke. >> and cover it, you will. phil, thank you so much. next, the u.s. senators are now arriving at the white house for this briefing on north korea in this rare, surreal scene. we've got that for you. also, the white house today laying out the president's new tax cut proposal which is raising a lot of questions. we'll get into exactly wha...

Make sure it happens. whether it is this friday or next week or the week after that, i can tell you, real reform is coming. it's a matter of days, not months. so, i'm very optimistic we'll get it done in the right fashion. >> martha: what happened last time was that the things that made the moderates happy made you folks unhappy. now that you are happy, are the moderates unhappy again? some of the states will have the ability to charge people with pre-existing conditions for further health care and also to opt out of some of the requirements that were put in place for these plans under obamaca...

All americans as well the bill that we passed lower their premiums. that is with the freedom caucus has been standing for from day one. we believe the original bill didn't go far enough. this new waiver allows for not only the states to be able to tailor made it come as the speaker was income a to wave out of the obamacare mandates. it was also a freedom caucus amendment that put this high risk pool that was going to drive down premiums. some of the modeling we have done actually means that we'll see as much is a 38% reduction in health care premiums. that's really what made the difference for...

The premiums for the average person when you create a high risk pool and subsidize those premiums for those patients through a different pooling. >> unfortunately, it hasn't happened on a nation basis. we haven't been able to do it on a national basis ever will. >> that's why we think these amendments, especially the palmer amendment, important, because we get a chance to do what happened in maine on a national scale. >> i think we're going to find that maine is not representative of the problems the entire united states faces when it comes to health care. >> actually, it is. because it has a ...