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>> no. look, what schumer is saying, what democrats are saying, but 20 million americans that might lose coverage, okay, republicans, you want to repeal it, fine, but what is your alternative? so far, and the last seven years, i have not seen a republican alternative. what is going to happen to the pre-existing condition that -- will that be eliminated? what about those kids between 21 and 26 years old? will they be covered? will costs go down? i mean, there is no beef there on the republican side. i think what schumer is asking legitimately is, okay, you want to repeal it? what is your altern...

>> no. look, what schumer is saying, what democrats are saying, but 20 million americans that might lose coverage, okay, republicans, you want to repeal it, fine, but what is your alternative? so far, and the last seven years, i have not seen a republican alternative. what is going to happen to the pre-existing condition that -- will that be eliminated? what about those kids between 21 and 26 years old? will they be covered? will costs go down? i mean, there is no beef there on the republican side. i think what schumer is asking legitimately is, okay, you want to repeal it? what is your altern...

Some pretty effective piling, clinically speaking, i don't mean that pejoratively, he's actually been quite effective in getting his point across. and the good thing about it that i like about twitter is that it's completely transparent, it is instant, and you don't have a middleman to mince words and reframe or repackage, for better or worse. so i really don't know why, in this kind of grand introduction of what schumer is going to be like as a minority leader, he spends all his time chastising the president-elect on the issue of twitter. >> president obama even said after donald trump was el...

Are the republicans on capitol hill listening to donald trump on that front or just go ahead and repeal it, despite what he said publicly? >> so they have repealed it like 75 times. so i don't think they are going to listen to him at all on this. mike pence is going to be a critical figure because a lot of these guys know mike pence. he is a former house guy and former house leadership guy. they have his cell phone number. what schumer told us yesterday is what house republicans have been telling us behind the scenes for years. you cannot keep the good provisions in this bill that republicans ...

Check your overreach. his actual ability to do that is limited, and it is likely to be limited even further if he can't keep his own troops in line behind him. >> but the first test will be these confirmation hearings, and to both of you, they are going to pick and choose, but they think they've got some opportunities. anne? >> yes they've picked four or five top targets, including rex tillerson for state, and there are two hearings, one next week and then a few days after that, where the democrats will really try to display some, if not total ability to stop the process, to display some of wh...