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When it is in fact not a repeal at all. it's simply an amendment to obamacare. and i appreciate the fact that there is two other steps. but he's going to need 60 votes in the senate to get those steps passed. and i think politically -- i think i'm speaking politically now i think he would have been better off if he had just said what it is, we are not going to be able to repeal obamacare because we don't have democratic votes and leave it to the democrats to help fix the system. >> jamal, do you think the president really want this bill, this as written bill, to pass right now? >> you for exam...

Notion that tie it with a big infrastructure plan, whether donald trump wants to do that or not, because it's not integral to this. >> i know a lot of republicans in congress would like not to do the infrastructure thing. they think that is obamanomics. it failed and they don't like big spending programs. infrastructure spending has been done by president obama, president bush. didn't help the economy that much. so if you bifurcate it, do the tax cuts, do that first and then the infrastructure, guess what? the infrastructure thing might not happen or might get scaled back or something along th...

He is certainly feeling pretty great, he has noted the surge, and there is one gentleman who made dow 20,000 hat in may of 2013 and was very optimistic, and he is right. here's another one, and here's the one from the new york stock exchange. this one goes up and down, i hope we don't go down. i hope we continue to go up for the 401k's and iras, so the optimism continues. >> jon: well right now democrats and republicans are in a battle over the affordable care act. republican congressman pete sessions of texas, and republican senator bill cassidy of louisiana, or pitching a bill they say would...

In reconciliation. the legal structure of the exchanges cannot be dismantled under reconciliation. subsidies can. we need to be clear. there are things in reconciliation of obamacare that can be dismantled. that affects the budget. tax credits or subsidies or other spending programs. but things that aren't spending are not from the federal budget, cannot be done in reconciliation. they need regular legislative order. 60 votes in the senate. not all of the affordable care act can be repealed that way. >> you left othat's an importan clarification. donald trump said he wants to keep the popular ...

Candidates to offer any more specifics how they might slash the $19 trillion debt. tuesday's final debate is the last time hillary clinton and donald trump had an audience of millions to offer details. here's how clinton tried to sell her plan. >> i have said repeatedly throughout this campaign, i will not raise taxes on anyone making $250,000 or less. i also will not add a pen kny t the debt. >> a reality check analysts say is not entirely true. she didn't mention her spending programs. when that's factored in her plan could add 2$200 billion over te year period. here's what her rival donald ...