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Trump. he used every tool in his arsenal to get, as you said, those 217 votes and closing it in the other day with the upton amendment was what it took to do it. he's given everybody, as you described it, a little band-aid, a little cover. some of these members there for that photograph have very little cover. they're going to see whether this photograph today ends up in the stuff that's been, you know, put up against them when they're running again. but the point is, he managed to give everybody the piece of cover they need and bridge a much bigger ideological gap. a lot of people talk about ...

Lower chamber, miss pelosi there, spending a few minutes railing against it. we will continue to listen in. let's bring in anton, former director of external affairs for the department of health and human services under president obama, phil klein, managing editor, columnist for the washington examiner, larry levist, senior vice president of the kaiser family foundation which focuses on health policy and jonathan grish is with us as well, professor of economic at m.i.t. a lot of folks who call him an architect of the health care law. he was a creator of the massachusetts health care law. part ...

Experts and i've studied this the last two months say we need close to $200 billion to be able to pay for the high risk pool. we're going to charge seniors five times more. seniors aren't people in the 50s. this is a bad bill. i wish it the -- this isn't a war between republicans and democrats. it's about real people's lives out there. i hear from them every ta. is the affordable care act perfect? no. let's work together to fix those little problems and not destroy a bill that is a major health care coverage for too many americans. >> you mentioned preexisting conditions. and we've talked abou...

House correspondence dinner is to hold up the first amendment. you bring the leader of the free world and pillary him. every president except when reagan was shot has sat there, taken his lumps, and said yes, we have the freedom of the press. we have freedom of speech and expression in this country, and it even rises to the occasion that the president of the united states can sit there and be a big boy and take it. the issue of fake news isn't what the white house correspondence dinner is about. there are comedians there. of course, that's fake. but this con flights the issue. the first amendm...

>> yeah, i think so. and just to go back, the upton amendment that you mentioned was $8 billion. that's $8 billion additional ear marked to help people with preexisting condition. the overall number is closer to $130 billion over ten years. so there's a big difference there. so, yeah, look, i think richard's point on the senate is correct. what you have to remember is reconciliation is this tool that the democrats used to pass obama care in 2010. it's a budget thing. a budget maneuver. that means because republicans are using the same thing here, that means that there will be unlimited amendme...