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Isn't it about the vehicle for continuing negotiations? >> you are right, but we still to look at it. no one likes a mandate, so if there is an employer mandate that will be gone, the individual mandate that will be gone. if that's all you do, then that gives people incentive to remain uninsured until they get sick. what schumer missed the boat on is whether people will lose their insurance. they will choose not to ensure until they get sick, but that's not a good result for the syste system. >> melissa: if you can stick with us on the other side of the break, we'll talk about the changes that...

>> ambassador haggerty was nominated back in february. some of these people have been sitting for six months. these are nominations that are not controversial. the thing here, though, paul is, there's a new reality in chuck schumer's opposition. the democrats are simply not participating in the government. now in fairness, the republicans in obama's first term, did not participate in the passage of the affordable care act or dodd frank. so that suggested, i was saying earlier if you get control of the government, as these republican senators have now, you have to make a concerted effort to get...

Expect? it is their fault, not ours. >> ambassador haggerty was nominated back in february. some of these people have been sitting for six months. these are nominations that are not controversial. the thing here, though, paul is, there's a new reality in chuck schumer's opposition. the democrats are simply not participating in the government. now in fairness, the republicans in obama's first term, did not participate in the passage of the affordable care act or dodd frank. so that suggested, i was saying earlier if you get control of the government, as these republican senators have now, you h...

Ourselves agreeing with the president. this bill is mean. >> but the white house said senator mcconnell said democrats' complaints were actually about fate. >> look at what schumer said about moveon.org call. say nothing democrat is going to go near this. what he said in a letter may 9th saying no democrats would be part of an effort that would repeal obamacare. so they have chosen to not make themselves part of this process. >> we know they don't want to participate in what we're trying to achieve which is to change obamacare and make it better. >> joining us once again, capitol hill reporter...

This? a lot of unanswered questions but the white house press office launching already a kind of preemptive strike against what's coming out of capitol hill in terms of democrats saying the president has acted in a fashion bite taking the head and literally taking off the head of the fbi director saying senator schumer said about the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein "he has developed a reputation for integrity. he has promised to give this careful consideration. " this was really his recommendation that they concurred with and saying of comey that schumer back on november the second of l...