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His response was he understood that it probably wasn't going to help them all that much and he was open to something else. so i think there is a path forward here if the republicans are willing to start over. >> you know, you said a picture is worth a thousand words. i will remark that that photo of the president being flanked by senators murkowski and collins was quite telling, considering that those were two of the biggest opponents of the senate bill among the republican caucus, within the senate. senator, what would you want to work with republicans on? what aspect of a health care bill do...

Found there was only one group in america who is made better off after you account for tax credits and other things, 18-year-olds in a certain income range are the only people made better off by this. everyone else would pay more either in higher premiums or high out of pocket costs. it's an absolute lie. so basically, this law is making health insurance more expensive. if you want to actually fix it, you have to go so radically far away from where it is now, it's not a tweak. you have to rip the thing up and start over. >> rick, given what jonathan just said and given that cbo score which out...

Votes in the senate. rk sill ya reconciliation wasn't used in 2009. it was all democrats but it wasn't reconciliation. democrats want stability for these exchanges, republicans want more flexibility on the exchanges. they want perhaps nor product that has less requirement and protections built around them. i think there's a conversation to be had between stability and flexibility but that can't happen if the goal is to move millions from the ranks that are insured. we have to make sure our goal is the same. >> do you think there's any chance of that realistically. but really is that going to h...

>> so they just weren't happy. >> this is the bus they get thrown under. pool video shows the president flanked by susan collins, lisa murkowski and dean heller. then came this tweet "trump says senate has chance to pass important health care bill. if it fails, he won't like it and that's okay. >> we have really no choice but to solve the situation. obamacare is a total disaster. it's melting down as we speak. rates are going up. in fact, it's very interesting, lisa, that you're sitting next to me because in alaska it was a 206%. a 206% increase in alaska. we're going to talk and see what we c...

They want to make sure that no federal money is going to be used to provide abortions. they also want to make sure there's less money in the tax credits to go to low income people who need to buy insurance. they say that's just another entitlement program the government doesn't have money for. on the other side, moderates want more money from medicaid spending. this is the program that helps low income people access insurance that was expanded under the affordable care act, and they want more money to combat the opoid crisis. and two other senators, senators murkowski of alaska and susan colli...