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House strategy, amanda. to sell this thing, he has your old boss over to dinner, how do you think it went last night with senator ted cruz, do you think he was won over with a meal? >> senator cruz, senator de mint, what all these gop groups have to grapple with, do you engage in the ryan bill and try to make it better or do you tank it and insist on full straight repeal? both versions will have to work within the universe of 51 votes. this is where it comes in, this is where all these conservative groups are dancing around this question about whether or not we work within this universe. now, ...

Drug bill. as we've seen over the last couple of days, every interest on every side of this debate, the american medical associations, the hospitals, the nurses, the aarp representing older americans, have all come out against this bill on the belief that it will withdraw coverage from too many people who were covered under obamacare. i think in the end that is going to be more the crunch point than people like senator de mint who are complaining it doesn't undo enough. initial estimates are that about half the people who obtain coverage under obamacare may louis lose it under this bill. that ...

2002. he served in the military as well as your family has and he's been in front of a lot of issues, including benghazi. what don't you like about him? >> i look at this being sort of a big picture. it's not necessarily one man or one senator but i look at these issues and i say to myself, can we trust this government? whether it's with our health care or our taxes or our personal phone and email records. and he's on the other side of that argument. i look at most recently obamacare, for instance. that's just one of many issues. and there's an effort in d.c. today to defund obamacare and i th...