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Base with the ideas don't actually resonate with the american people. if you look at what happened with obamacare or a bunch of democrats were forced to vote for that and ended up hurting their reelection chances. if a host of democratic candidates. at least with obamacare you could argue that it was a way to help out private insurance. the idea that underlying, single-payer health care are so radical that even states like california, they just actually try to implement it, they decided they would not do it because the tax was so great and the costs were so prohibited. >> bret: nancy pelosi, c...

Carol lee with breaking news this afternoon. thanks for that. >> thank you. jennifer ruben is the author of "right turn" the blog of "the washington post," editorial page editor for the washington post, jared bernstein does not work for "the washington post." he's an msnbc contributor. also, of course, former chief economist for vice president joe biden. >> he also writes for "the washington post." >> my stuff finds its way addition. >> that's true. >> but you're not on the full-time payroll. >> we're everywhere. just saying. >> believe me, we know. let me start with you, since you broke the...

>> trish: basically, bernie sanders would want to turn into europe. >> jessica: i don't like bernie sanders. i've never liked him. >> trish: x not just bernie sanders. elizabeth warren, cory booker. >> jessica: joe manchin has not signed on. it's important to remember that we would want single-payer, we know we can get it passed. this is been a goal of liberals for a long time. we have to acknowledge how our system works, we're a diverse nation and it's not successful in a lot of places. what i'm concerned about is we are playing out the same thing within our party as we did in 2016. camilla h...

Away from that. he seems to very much enjoy cutting that deal with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. he seems to potentially want to do it again tonight. that would be a much different package for tax reform. you already have democrats setting out markers saying, look, we're not going to eliminate the home mortgage deduction, for example. we're not going to eliminate deductions for state and local taxes, things along those lines. a brewing controversy already between the president and his own party here on capitol hill, craig. >> let's turn to bernie sanders for a minute. next hour we'll hear fr...

This route, they'll start hearing a little more about the complications of the full tear-down and replacement with the single payer system. >> jared, you're raising your hand. >> i think a lot of that is correct. and especially -- >> wow. >> especially when you think about disrupting a large politically connected industry, i.e., the insurance industry. however, i think there's a middle ground here. i think it's actually a mistake to dismish the push for single payer among democrats and progressives. and i think the way to think about this is to try to craft a path from where we are now that ge...