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Can actually stand for. >> shannon: and what people unlike us who are so far inside the beltway covering this stuff all the time may not remember there have been dozens of changes to obamacare under both president obama and when things got passed through congress and made it to his desk that had republican votes. both parties acknowledged along the way things can be fixed. reading about this idea democrats wanted the make more changes under the last administration but pressure from the white house for them not to work with republicans to do that. do you think that as you mentioned now anything...

>> i am not sure how much political capital he has. this is self-inflicted wounds, and all the republicans went out and said they want to repeal and replace, and the problem is this appears to be tweaking obamacare, and it's a slippery slope, and many in the base are very unhappy, and many republicans in the far right don't like it because they say it's not repeal and replace and the moderates are unhappy because they don't like medicaid expansion could be curtailed in 2020. so you have a lot of really unhappy people. this is the same thing we face with the democrats back in 2010. all of a sud...

With us. many are suggesting the different tone from donald trump in his tuesday address represented a turning point and the moment he became presidentialme presidential. what's your response? >> i think that's true. it was a different tone. we have not seen the details. the truth is still 22 million people will be without health care if he gets rid of obamacare. he has a lot of spending he is suggesting but it's unclear how it's going to be funded. i know that balancing the budget and understand the cost is important. his remarks demonstrated he's taking to heart the criticism. >> what's your...

Saying do not take away my health care. today we did monot hear from th president exactly how he was going to change it, how it was going to work with the existing obamacare to go into some new system that people would not faulty the crack. the devils is in the detail. >> that is mantra, is he listening to people. it sounds like elements of obamacare will remain. is that a repeal or is that going to end up being tweaking obamacare and how will president trump pay for all of this? >> the question is the great negotiator going to be able to negotiate a solution america will accept. the program i...

>> i am calling on democrats and republicans in congress to work with us to save american from this imploded obamacare disaster. >> we saw nancy pelosi shake her head in response. what did you think of the details president trump referenced for his new health care proposals people with preexisting conditions will have access to coverage and help will be give ton those who struggle to pay for it. does that sound like obamacare to you? >> it sound a lot like obamacare. his description of it being disasterous is inaccurate. the most important part is 22 million people are getting health care that...