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>> one of the questions asked was about how the president was meeting with the australian prime minister last night, which you covered, and essentially the president was saying that australians' health care system is even better than ours which by the way, it's universal health care. then in the briefing, sarah huckabee sanders was asked about that comment and is that the case? this is what she said. >> premiums are going to come down very substantially. the deductibles are going to come down. it's going to be fantastic health care. right now obamacare is failing. we have a failing health care...

Primarily the places we saw the most growth in this jobs report were in manufacturing, coal miners, other places. i certainly think you can have job growth even when there are job-killing regulations. >> back to the comment the president made to the australian prime minister, are you saying he didn't mean what he was saying when he said that they have a better health care system? >> i'm saying that the president was complimenting a foreign leader on the operations of their health care system and that it didn't mean anything more than that. >> he doesn't believe they have a better health care s...

Way the macarthur/meadows amendment broke the house. they said let's push them out to the states and let different states do different things. i suspect that idea of state flexibility as a way to bridge the divide that the phod rates and conservatives disagree on will probably be the template of how they resolve any remaining issues in the senate. >> sandra: senator mccain talking about this is all the fulfilling of a promise made to the american people over repealing obamacare. listen. >> i do believe we need to reach a conclusion because we promised the american people and i promised the peo...

Pre-consisting -- pre-existing conditions. and about -- several pools by their state would face huge premiums, then there is a question about whether or not the government would have to back up some of these high-risk pools. so walk us through what you know about that. would it be that if you have pre-existing conditions, you have to pay more? is the government going to be on the bill for that? >> i think the priority is making sure that people that have the pre-existing conditions are taken care of, at the same time we offer state flexibility. a big part of the process is making sure that we ...

Care bill that includes state flexibility. and mo brooks should have embraced that and said i'm a republican, and i want state flexibility. boehner was the champion at setting the deadline and forcing members to get to yes by then, you have to set a deadline. >> paul ryan doesn't have the big stick, though, to do that. they're not saying a word now. and what that says to me is they know it will die in the senate, and they're not saying a word because they know it isn't even close to getting a vote in the house. >> right. i don't think that senators are enthusiastic to receive the american heal...