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>> it's a disaster. and people understand that it's failed. and it's imploding. plus the air quote defense. the white house defends the president's wiretapping claims. >> if you look at the president's tweet, he said clearly, quote, wiretapping, end quotes. and east meets west palm beach. after the heated rhetoric, will trump's mar-a-lago meeting with china's leader cool tension expectation this is mtp daily and it starts right now. good evening, i'm katy tur in new york for chuck todd. we have two major developments right now. the battle to repeal and replace obamacare, and the credibil...

Standing. so there was a sense over the weekend that they were going to work the ref. attack the ref. and say that the cbo whose head was appointed by the republicans, was somehow, you know, corrupt or rigging it or whatever their adjective of the day was. it's been accepted. paul ryan has said that the cbo favors the bill. briefing that you just saw, they were kind of all over the map. but their spin was very inconsistent. we agreeit this par of cbo, but not that partf cbo. essentially lost the ability to attack the ref. and that's very consequential. that means that this 24 million people lo...

About. and it's -- as i said the other day, the speaker was the one who signed the letter insisting that we have a cbo report before we proceeded with the affordable care act, insisting -- we had already written for it. when it was important then. now the rents are saying it's not so important now and who is this any way. it's somebody appointed by the republicans to do the numbers and come as close as possible as to what the impact would be on the american people on their health and on our budget. the purpose of this affordable care act and the rest was to improve coverage lower costs, and ex...

Reasons that have been basic ten nanlts of republicans conservative thought far long time that competition lower cost. that's exactly right. the numbers i've seen in the first glance is that the cbo says that premiums will go down by at least 10% with the plan. so it just confirms a lot of thijs tom and i have been talking about publicly which is we do they these ideas of taking market competition, putting it back into health care, getting government out of the way will do what it does in health care what it does with everything else. every place and costs go down. and i think if you look for ...

Beyond the top lines and we'll have further comment tomorrow and talk with our colleagues about why we believe the plan, the entire plan that we have recommended moving forward and adopting is one that will provide greater opportunity for folks to purchase the kind of coverage that they want and put patients and families and doctors in charge of health care and not the federal government. >> thank you y'all. stay warm. >> health and human services secretary tom price right there saying that he disagrees strenuously with the cbo's rating of the republican and white house-backed health care bill...