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All sides got tough questions. i think we can figure out where texas is. they want the whole law eliminated. we can't quite yet figure out where the federal government is. the trump administration, i don't think even they know what their argument was because they've flip-flopped so many times. we've made it very clear that the law has been found constitutional by the supreme court already. the law has been held lawful on many occasions and the law continues to work, so we have millions of americans who today benefit from health care that they got as a result of the affordable care act. that's ...

Here. we got put into the house proposal. that goes to a lot of homeowners. that goes to people that are on fixed income. property taxes are regressive. they're not progressive like the tax component of it. by delivering that relief to our folks, we protect 99% of the folks in our district in particular. i appreciate the ability to move and have that conversation with our leadership and not go down the complete elimination. >> you leave little time for that. the senate has pushed back its date for this. you particularly and some of your republican colleagues from new york and new jersey and hi...

On your show earlier we had the young lady who was talking about jpmorgan. this is how they get away with this rhetoric of claiming it is a tax break for the rich when it is not. what about the 30 million small businesses, 30 million of them that file as subchapter s and these are the ones that are going to benefit. that's a middle-class tax cut. >> harris: that's the tax component of this. it back on health care, labarre alexander is saying we have been stuck in a partisan stalemate and we are trying to take a small, limited, bipartisan step that would avoid chaos, again to keep premiums lowe...

Entities that file as corporations and you change what their tax rate s of course they'll make different decisions. >> bill: there is a big debate on this. he talked a lot about the corporate side. what's in it for the middle class? what can you tell us this morning that is good for those americans? >> it is good when you decrease the taxes on business what you are going to see is a decrease in product costs, an increase in wages, you'll see an increase in expansion. that's good. the other part of the tax component will be moving the marginal rate down to 35, 25, 12. the three rates that we're...

>> up to the republicans for not having a plan over the last eight years why haven't they offered a plan. >> you present a plan that, in fact, decreases health care and increases costs. when you say -- when you make the argument that aca, in fact, was increasing costs among middle class which is true, many of us actually on the progressive side want single payer. right. but there's a sense in which the actual alternative put on the table did nothing to take to -- to ease the burden of everyday working people. none of the agenda that the republicans have put forward does anything, does anything...