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But after their health care win, president trump and house speaker paul ryan were more than happy to spike the football. even if there is still a lot of green grass between them and the end zone. that said, the house did just hand a skeptical senate a bill not scored by the congressional budget office, not read by most of those who voted for it. and that counts among its winners those with high incomes, wealthier people without pre-existing conditions. the young and large employers. and among its losers, the poor, older americans, people with pre-existing conditions and those who counted on ob...

>> well, you've got to pay for covering, for example, medicaid expansion. you've got to cover the pre-existing condition clause. the way that was covered before had to do with taxes, but also had to do with taxes on insurance company, medical device companies and some of the hospitals. removing all that, how do we cover and even out the marketplace which is what the affordable care act strove to do, to make sure everybody was insured and make sure the poorest and the sickest had some kind of balance in their coverage. what we're doing is bringing us back to pre affordable care act. yes, that w...

You have no jobs. 58% of your youth is unemployed. what the hell do you have to lose? >> we'll get rid of the crime. you'll be able to walk down the street without getting shot. right now you walk down the street, you get shot. what do you have to lose? >> that did happen, didn't it? so what do african-americans have too move with the president's proposed budget. let's say, for federal agencies that assist the poor, department of housing and urban development down 13.2%. department of education down 13.5%. department of health and human services down 16.2%. so it seems like some african-americ...

President attacking judges. >> he certainly expressed to me that he's disheartened by the poor comments made by president trump about the judiciary. >> according to one new poll from politico, there's growing support for the president's temporary ban from seven muslim majority countries with more than half of those surveyed saying they approve. tonight president trump will try to win over some democratic senators by having them over to the white house for dinner, all part of his effort to get judge gorsuch confirmation without a filibuster possible. heather: thank you so much, garrett. >> you ...

>> this attack and i think that is written on the statue of liberty, right? [ inaudible ] in this specific case, the republican party found a way to demonize a group of people who don't have a political voice. this will really harm people at the lowest economic scale which a lot of republican policy is aimed at. how do we counter the fact that voters buy into this and believe that the immigrants are a drain on society. >> i think we need to take a history lesson. there's a great book expelling the poor by a professor that talks about how these public charge laws are really steeped in nativism ...