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A federal court agreed with them. >> mean,hen you hear all of the anger about the subsidies and president trump cutting them off and how could he do that, you just look to the constitution. it is the constitution that says congress has the power of the purse. and what happened with obamacare is that the president obama went to congress and said we need to pay for these subsidies. congress said no, we're not paying that bill. he said, i'm using my pen and phone and we are going to take money to pay these subsidy. well, a court said no, a federal court. and president trump said those subsidies a...

Lamar alexander said he's made a deal with senator murray to stablize obamacare. has the white house bee involved in those negotiations and will you support that deal? >> yes, w have been involved. this is a short-term deal because we think ultimately block grants going to the states is going to be the answ. that's a very good solution. we think it's going to not on save money but give people much better health care with a very very much smaller premium spike. you look at what's gone on with that. also much lower deductible so they can use it. lamar has been working very, very hard with the de...

And we evaluated it jointly. i think we're doing good work there. it can and it must be upgraded and has. >> i want to thank everybody, the prime minister came out here and he said this is so beautiful. i said this is the row garden. i think even the media likes the rose garden. that's hard to believe, but even the media likes it. mr. prime minister, it's a great honor having you. we look foreward to many, many years of friendship and working together. keep up the good work. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> dana: president trump wrapping up a joint news conference with the prime minister o...

I was struck by that, both questions from the white house press corps were about obamacare and healthcare, what the president's plans are. twice in two days, bret, he has said he's got the votes. listen to this. >> so we feel we have the votes. we will be doing that after the taxes. in the meantime, we're involved with a budget. >> dana: so, bret, just coming across the fires is that senators alexander and murray have come up with a bipartisan deal that they say can actually be a short term fix. is that what the president's talking about? >> well, i think the biggest news here. there's two dif...