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Was palletable to the tuesday group and the freedom caucus. you had congressman upton and congressman long who were saying we can't vote for this thing because there's no guarantees that people have preexisting conditions will be able to get health insurance. that's when the break through moment happened yesterday when congressman upton and congressman long proposed an $8 billion fund to go to the states to help pay premium support for people who are in high risk pools. now, there is some question, and charles schumer, the senate minority leader raised this, as to whether or not that particula...

And i do think it is a risky strategy, just as for the democrats to pass something and once you sort of own that vote and legislation find out oh, this was an unintended effect i didn't realize what happened. >> but it is remarkable. patient groups, hospitals, doctors, aarp, all of them against this bill. you rarely see such a collective force of lobbying against the legislation that looks like it's bound to pass and we know how high risk pools work. they work poorly. $8 billion to high risk pools is nothing compared to the $880 billion taken out of medicaid. like less than 1% of the money tak...

For their lives. >> no worries. the risk of high risk pools which they would put cancer patients and pre-ex into, they used to have waiting periods of six to 12 months. if you have a cancer diagnosis, you can't wait 6 to 12 months to get coverage. they generally had higher premiums than the regular market. it's really not a solution for people with preexisting conditions. what works in the employer-based market, what works in medicare is you have everyone in the same market, sick people, healthy people, they support each other. that's the american way. that's the way we should be doing it in t...

Your conservative colleagues are saying this. this is coming from representative bill long of missouri. the american medical association said it's worried as well. saying although the amendment states the ban remains intact, this assurance may be illouisry as underwriting could make coverage unaffordable to people with preexisting conditions. the kaiser foundation said the same thing. how can you say you are right and they are wrong. >> read the bill. they said that specific line. preexisting conditions are covered. we have $125 billion in the bill to help with this situation. we set up high r...

Gary cohen yesterday seemed to suggest they had the votes and sean spicer in the briefing was not as confident about having the votes to pass this. so, it's kind of like we've seen on syria where there's different administration officials kind of giving a different line about what's going on. i don't know, they're trying to save face. i don't know how involved donald trump is. i don't know if that's a good thing or bad thing that -- whether he's involved or not. we didn't get any indication he spent the weekend making calls to congress members or anything. >> so, he's letting the house do this...