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>> steve? >> senator steve rattner. on related health care proposal has come to us from bernie sanders, as you know, a single payer plan. he has at least 16, a third of the democratic caucus in the senate supporting it. some have questioned whether this is becoming a litmus test for democrats, whether they're on the senator's side of health care or on a more moderate side of health care. is this proposal helping or hurting the democratic party come together behind a cohesive set of ideas in anticipation of the next two elections? >> i always to borrow from your earlier segment on football, i a...

And in the last week we've seen the opposite. >> mark halperin, there's also -- you provoke north korea also into not firing weapons at the united states, if they're not able to do that, certainly selling nuclear technology to isis or any other terror group that would love nothing more to put a dirty bomb or something worse in times square or the mall in washington. >> one would hope there's quiet diplomacy and also a plan here. there may not be either. >> there's not. >> in asia culture, this kind of language and taunting is just not a good idea. it puts the north koreans in a place we don't ...

That's very good. making sure we're doing outreach for young people so healthier people, younger people are part of the pool so that costs go down. that piece of it, coupled with extending children's health insurance, health centers, community health centers, roy blount and i have 70 senators on a letter, we want to extend health center money, bipartisan effort. that's what we want to be done. that's what we want to do before the end of the week. and we're wasting all our time. >> the president would probably support all of that. >> i'm sure the president would support all of that. i hope that...

Forward a single payer plan. is that the way to go right now, or is it time to find something that the majority of congress, or at least, say, even a simple majority of congress, of democrats and republicans, can agree on, something more in the middle? >> look, bernie sanders has advocated medicare for all, but he's also been the point person for the senate democrats in defeating the repeated public attempts to throw tens of millions of people off their health insurance. i think the people you're seeing on their screen being dragged out of the public hearing room have it right. we talk about n...

The california senate planned a single payer plan. as lindsey graham said right now we have a choice. the choice is american federalism or socialism and to me that's like choosing between ice cream and manure. it's an easy one. >> or you had, ana, the bipartisan effort from lamar alexander and patty murray to fix the existing system. >> look, i think this is going to end up being a bipartisan effort, if not now, later. we've already tried this as a, you know, one party solution. from the republicans that failed because it was a one-party solution. it had major flaws. this one also has major fl...