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Why the difference? >> well, the first time it passed the senate it didn't pass through reconciliation, it got 60 votes and there were 60 democrats and 40 republicans, they were able to pass permanent law. look, reconciliation is available because the supreme court now declared it a tax. they've unearthed the massive deception that was practiced by the president and the democrats, constantly denying it was a tax. you heard the president, chief of staff continue to try to deny it was a tax, just this morning and the supreme court, the chief justice made it clear, it is a tax and as a tanks it i...

We've seen a lot of -- of these moments with president trump, but on legislation to go in 24 hours, i mean, whiplash doesn't begin to describe it. >> he didn't need to get to this point in the sense that the subsidies that are at issue here, no matter what you think about the affordable care act they took an oath of office, all of them, to defend the constitution, not the affordable care act and two thing. everything is disagreed in this town by everybody. two things are indisputable. article 1 section 9 of the constitution no money expended from the treasury expect by appropriation of congres...

Have been enriched by obamacare like nothing nobody's seen before. >> we said all along we don't want to bailout insurance companies but provide relee for all americans and this bill doesn't address that fact. >> is it droect say president trump does not support this deal in its current form? >> correct. >> what the heck is going on. if you want clarity from the republican chief negotiator on the deal, keep looking, because senator lamar alexander said today mr. trump personally engineered this compromise. >> he completely engineered the bipartisan agreement that senator murray and i announced...

For better or worse, the affordable care act is the law of the land. you have serious serious lawmakers, senator alexander and murray working at the president's behest, senator alexander tell us us to get to a attemptary two-year solution here. i'm waiting for senator alexander, a patient person to go full bob corker. >> what i don't get here. michael steele, lamar alexander, this is not a guy who's new to this game. he's been around the block and pretty risk oh verse. he's not going to climb out on a limb he doesn't think he's by himself on. you don't sign off on deals in this town when you d...

Based on what he says. but we've seen so many instances where the president contradicts himself or the white house contradicts him or his allies contradict both, and health care is no exception. in fact, it sometimes feels like the rule. as a consequence, it's taken just 24 hours for this bipartisan deal designed to stabilize the health care markets temporarily to spiral into its own giant chaotic mess. last week the president cut off payments critical to obamacare's health insurance markets. called them a bayout for insurance companies. yesterday afternoon he heaped praise on this bipartisan ...