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favor of the bill. so what is the future of the gop's plan to repeal obamacare? joining us is clarence page a pulitzer prize winning syndicated columnist from the chicago tribune, nbc news medical contributor dr. natalie azure from nyu medical center and dr. gawandai a surgeon at brigham and women's hospital and a harvard professor. let me go to you first, clarence. the fact that the obamacare or the affordable care act that they have promised throughout the campaign, "they" being the republicans and president trump, that they would repeal and replace, actually the affordable care act as you wrote has gotten more popular and what they've introduced has gotten less

popular. give me the politics of what we're looking at in terms of this vote that they want to try to make happen before july 4th. >> you're certainly quoting me correctly there, reverend. i think it was a short-coming of the obama administration that after they got the aca passed they moved on to other matters and didn't really do that much to promote it or sell it to the american public. as a result a lot of misunderstandings occurred and polls showed like by the beginning of this year that a substantial number of people thought that aca and obamacare were two different things. they didn't realize they were the same program but all they knew was aca is good because it's helping me and my family and neighbors, obamacare is bad because those commentators on tv tell me or whatever. as a result people have learned more through the debate and also seen what republicans are offering. obamacare itself has become more

popular and as a number of moderates have warned, if you take it away people are going to remember who did that and they are going to retaliate at the polls. >> now, dr. gawandai one of the things that was interesting to me that was released in light of talking about the politics you calm out this morning -- we received this morning the new england journal of medicine reviewing the most rigorous research in the last ten years that the conclusion is coverage expansion has made people healthier and helped tens of thousands of people live longer per year. so taking away the politics you are saying that this study has concluded that when people are covered more they live longer and are healthier. explain how that is -- how that occurred and why that is true. >> well, so we studied -- we

looked at more than 40 studies that have been done since 2009. here is the bottom line, coverage expansions have given people -- they are more likely to have a regular source of care, they are more likely to be able to i a forward needed care. the result that we see is not just the result the people are getting more emergency care, they're getting nor preventive and primary care, more chronic illness treatment including mental health and physical health. the result is that people's overall health is better, individual indicators like depression, certain kinds of chronic physical illnesses are doing better. overall health then results in reductions in mortality. we saw, for example, that looking at medicaid expansions, you know, medicaid is often criticized, oh, it doesn't work. we found clear evidence that medicaid does work. you had medicaid expansions at about five years, you see a 6% reduction in deaths. and that's for real. so the consequence, you take a

trillion dollars out of healthcare coverage it's going to weaken the entire health system, it will mean increased medical debts, untreated sickness and deaths. >> so, doctor, i saw you nodding all way through the doctor's assessment of this report. so aside from the politics, you know, i have an opinion, people know that i'm not quiet about it, but you as a medical expert looking at this objectively, if, in fact, a trillion dollars is taken out of medicaid, if in fact medical coverage is not expanded, just from a pure medical point of view and i would say the senate bill does both, it does not expand coverage and it does take a trillion dollars out of healthcare, from a pure medical point of view this could affect people's lives in terms of length of life and in terms of

how they view their health and really deal with their health. >> absolutely, yeah. i was nodding because i actually referenced the doctor's report last week and i found it really rife with such important information about the policy discussion surrounding healthcare coverage. you know, you have to sort of agree with the premise that coverage improves health outcomes by improving care and, again, we get -- had a discussion a little while back about the semantics of access as opposed to actually delivering good quality care and as the doctor was saying, they were looking from the last ten years not only the aca in and of itself, but medicaid expansion as well as the experience in massachusetts when they passed their healthcare act in 2006 and it was very clear that things like preventive care, access to screening, access to, you know,

checking your cholesterol and cancer prevention and those kinds of things actually did translate into a meaningful reduction in mortality. and another point that i think is important to make, too, the psychological impact for people. people don't understand sometimes that not having health insurance carries probably the riskiest financial burden that you can bring upon yourself and one more note i would like to make, too, is that you have to think about it that expanding health insurance is probably a more cost effective intervention than -- i think the doctor says this in his report -- than other things that we do like environmental safety and work safety. so it's never going to be cost saving, per se, it's always going to be an outward expenditure, but i think the reward will come in, you know, the population itself having preventive care, you know, leading to prediction in mortality down the line. >> and certainly reduction in stress.

clarence, hearing what the two experts have said, medical -- in the medical field, the politics of it, i don't know that that is what the opposition, the democrats or those that oppose have tried to sell this and there are four gop senators that have said they will not vote for the bill, but wouldn't that be in your estimate a better sales in terms of those that want to sell opposing this bill, that we're actually talking not about obama against trump, obamacare against trump care, we're talking about what's going to really preserve people's lives and preserve their health. isn't that a better kind of argument to make to the american public? >> i would say if you're really interested in improving the health of the american public and providing better healthcare, yes, but our debate has become so polarized, this is not a new

debate, it's 100 years old, teddy roosevelt was trying to get something like this passed a century ago. now we find that the democrats are determined to follow the tradition of lbj who created medicare and medicaid in expanding care to cover everybody or as many americans as possible, while the republicans are more interested in cutting taxes. this alternative -- >> which their bill does cut taxes, the bill they are proposing cuts taxes for the rich. >> that's the primary purpose of it really is to not only cut taxes and reduce the size of government but also prepare for a big tax code change that the republicans would like to pass. it's a top priority of theirs. and the whole idea of replacing obamacare came late, you know, initially the whole idea was just to repeal it, but then they realized politically they had to come up with something to replace it. now we have a very

obamacare-light, even critics on the right have called it that. it purports to do what obamacare does, but it costs more and provides less service for almost everybody except there will be tax breaks as you mentioned for upper income folks, but the subsidies for lower income people are going to be quite inadequate and it also reduces service. >> but, dr. azur, rather than call it obama-like -- obama light, rather, it is like a knock off of obama. it's like having a phoney bag on times square. it may look like the real thing and has some of it but it's a phoney because you really are cutting taxes, ending the mandate and you're really is that inc. arie in-- shrinking medicaid and giving the states

to understand things like preexisting conditions. it may look like gucci but it's pucci. >> there doesn't appear to be any protections for people of lower income and it certainly doesn't look like it's providing insurance coverage. it's not providing adequate -- honestly it's not providing adequate access. they like to use the term access but as we all know you can go into saks fifth avenue but if you don't have the money to buy your gucci bag you are not going to buy it. >> and if somebody tells you that this is saks fifth avenue and you find out that it's jack's broadway, you also have been in many way conned. >> this is really important to understand. this is in many ways a repealing medicaid bill masquerading as an

obamacare repeal bill. >> wow. >> for people who are getting healthcare through the exchanges or through medicaid it makes deep cuts. so medicaid goes backwards. the cuts not only roll back the expansions that currently exist on medicaid, they take it -- they take it farther than if obamacare didn't exist. and that's really important. so center for budget policy priorities looked at the tax cuts under this and basically there's $33 billion goes to the top 400 richest people in the country and in order to provide that $33 billion in tax cuts to them it will take three-quarters of a million people out of medicaid or exchange coverage. that is the choice. >> i'm going to have to leave it there but i think we put a lot out there this morning. thanks, clarence page, dr. azur and dr. gawande. coming up, the growing contention between president trump and the congressional

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earlier this week we learned that the congressional black caucus declined an invitation from the white house to meet with president trump in the near term. the invitation issued by the, quote, honorable omarosa

managault, in charge of black community outreach, was extended to all 49 cbc members but the group is reported as being reluctant to participate in a photo op that the president could use to show solidarity with black sloeters. their policy interests such as voting rights have been either ignored or in the case of criminal justice reform rejected by the white house since first meeting with the cbc in march. joining me now is democratic congressman gregory meeks new york. congressm congressman, three weeks after the election then president trump called me and said he wanted to get together, we've debated and fought for 30 years here in new york and i said only if he would meet with all the civil rights leaders. never heard back from him since the honorable miss managault but

it seems like they just wanted a photo op but i wouldn't do t the caucus said the executive committee they had an extensive thing they laid out when they met saying you said during the campaign, president trump, that black americans had nothing to lose, here is what we had to lose, he has not responded. and now you get this invitation, the caucus does, for all 49 members to meet with him and there's reluctance. i just wanted our viewers to have the context of these engaging both elected black leadership and civil rights leadership and where this reluctance if not outright rejection by the caucus has a context. >> and it does. look at his budget. look at his proposals. look at what he's talked about and how it affects the communities in which we represent and basically what he wants to do is to have us come

for a reception to celebrate what? what we want is to make sure that we have access to the secretaries of which he has denied us so that we can sit down and talk about the issues that are affecting us, whether it's criminal justice reform -- >> so he didn't each invite you to a meeting, roosevelt room, let's sit down and really deal with some of the issues that you raise. he invited the caucus to a reception. >> that's basically what he wants to do. that's why initially we only said the executive committee because we want the focus on issues and the way the congressional black caucus works is we then ask secretaries to come to our weekly meetings so that we can talk about the issues that are important to us and our communities in their particular areas, whether it's criminal justice reform, we want the secretary of -- secretary sessions to come in. >> right. attorney general. >> attorney general to come in. if it's hud we want the secretary of hud to come in.

if it's dealing with as we're fighting now, you know, even with the state department we have the pickering fellows and he's cutting back on that. we want to deal with special issues that are tremendously important to the communities we represent. we want those secretaries to be accessible to us so we can talk about our principles and we don't want a photo op and just something that is going to -- i mean, what he did even with the executive committee when they were there is don't you want to take a picture with me and tried to get them to come around him, sitting at the -- his desk in the oval office. we are not about playing that game. too much is at stake for the communities that we represent. we have to deal with real issues that could make a difference. >> and he does this with other areas. i mean, people need to understand he sits with business leaders and talks substantive issues, brings secretaries, he sits with other constituents.

to invite the congressional black caucus in anything less than that kind of climate is really insulting to black voters. >> it is. and remember how he started as you indicated, rev, as president elect, he didn't offer to talk about issues then, he wanted to meet with individuals who primarily were entertainers or others who had nothing to do with policy. >> right. >> we are not there for that. we're there to deal with policy and it seems as though that everything that he has done, everything that he has done of substance, you know, talking about what did he have to lose, look at what you have to lose based upon the budget. let's just look at this healthcare bill that's devastating that he says he's supporting. first he celebrated when it passed the house, then he said it was a mean spirited bill, now he says he is behind this bill that is being put forth next week by the senate when as your very informative segment before

this indicated it is devastating -- it will be devastating to medicaid which will be devastating to not own african-americans but poor people. >> absolutely. >> all over america. >> it also when you deal with -- i'm going to talk about this in a minute in the show, the convictions, not one, in three police shootings. i couldn't imagine the black caucus meeting with him and not dealing with police reform when attorney general sessions met with four or five of us that lead national civil rights group couldn't even answer that. we met on the garden this week, the gardener family and i met with doj people. how do you and members of the caucus meet with the president and not deal with these issues and come back to the people that elected you with any level of credibility and respect. >> we lose all credibility. we're going back to mandatory minimums when you're talking about just inn cars rating individuals for non-violent

crimes. you hear what's coming out of this administration, private prisons, you know, they are on the rise, more people are investing in private prisons again based upon the proposals that are being put in place by this president. so therefore it shows already that proposal is the prison industrial system where they plan to incarcerate us on minor affairs and no one wants to talk about that from the administration. we cannot allow that to happen, we will not allow that to happen and with all this other conversation that's going on, even talking about russia, we want to talk about the issues that are affecting our people on a day to day bases. >> thank you very much, congressman gregory meeks, you made it plain. up next, how a tennis star is turning a negative moment into a positive show of force. that's coming up.

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what you have seen around this country for the last three years, the first case was eric garner. the nation is watching this case because this case was the beginning of a wave of a call for justice and this should end this wave of letting police walk away with no charges, no convictions. >> on wednesday i joined the

family of the late eric garner as they met with the justice department officials to discuss the ongoing federal investigation into his death. the meeting came amid several developments this week in the ongoing debate about race and policing. we saw graphic dash cam footage of motorist philando castile's final moments just days after a jury acquitted the minnesota police officer that killed him. we heard police audio of the fatal encounter between seattle law enforcement and sharlena lyles a pregnant single mother struggling with mental health issues. we learned that the parents of michael brown, the missouri teenager whose august 2014 death sparked days of iconic unrest reached an undisclosed settlement in the wrongful death lawsuit against the city of

ferguson. and we saw an ohio judge declaring a mistrial in the case of former cincinnati police officer ray tensing who in 2015 shot and killed samuel dubose, an incident that was captured on body camera video. even as deadly confrontations between police of color and law enforcement continue to be recorded they also continue to produce no police convictions and black civilians must continue to keep faith that justice for all is more than a phrase. >> joining me is now is eugene o'donnell, he is a professor of law and police studies at john j. college of criminal justice and marquez claxton a retired new york city police detective and now a director of the black

law enforcement alliance. let me go to you, mark, first. all this week also in milwaukee a policeman acquitted. no convictions of police. we struggle and you know from back in the day when you were on the force i was one of those beginning these last rounds of struggles around police accountability that we had to first struggle to even get into a court. now we are in court and you are not seeing convictions, but people forget that we weren't even getting trials a few years ago. we had to march to get even zimmermann in the trayvon martin case a trial to see what a jury was going to say even though he was a make believe cop in his own mind, but it just brings to mind this has been a process that has always had an uphill struggle. >> yeah, i think it's part of this ongoing process as we make

the calls and people around the nation are making calls for overall criminal justice reform and police reform more specifically, but in regards to overall criminal justice reform i think it's important for us to examine prosecute for y'all strategies when you're talking about prosecuting a police officer. i think time and time again based on the results we are receiving there needs to be a deeper examination as to how these cases are being prosecuted. i'm no attorney, but quite clearly i think there's overall focus on whether or not the police officer feared for their life. it seems as if during the course of a trial the focus by prosecution and allowed by the defense is whether a police officer feared for their life, not even reasonably feared for their life. what happens is they are excluding all of the elements of responsibility and culpability on the part of the police officer. we're ignoring that time and

time again many of these cases involve officer-created jeopardy. as we have this discussion we need to insist that prosecution includes an examination of the deviations from police protocol, from policy, from tactics, all those deviations when you add them up and you examine them and you delve deeply into them will put the prosecution in a position to establish some kind of criminal conduct. up until now what we have is an examination of the victim's background in life and whether or not -- >> we're in many ways putting the victims on trial. >> eugene, i like mark am not a lawyer and i don't play one on television, but the fact is that the laws give too much room -- i think one of the things we raised in 2014 at the big march in washington was dealing with the federal laws on civil rights, i'm talking about national action network, naacp

and others in the big march we had, and that the laws give too much room to where you can interpret if a policeman was in fear. shouldn't the laws be a little more defined than that because anybody can say that i was afraid, and are we dangerously close to people being able to say that just the presence of a black man is threatening to me? >> well, the whole issue is the officer's judgment and the officer has judgment powers that are awesome, staggering, and in order to give somebody those kind of powers we as a society have to make sure we're picking people very selectively, that they have the wisdom, prudence, intellect to do the work. these are real issues and we have a new administration in washington and they could be very helpful with this. we need -- we have a recruitment crisis at the moment, fewer people want to go into this profession and we need to -- it

would be a very good time to talk about training and education, investing in -- >> but we also need laws, eugene, because i don't care how much training you have, if a man is telling you that you pulled over as in the case of philando castile and he's telling you i have a licensed gun and you shoot seven times with this girlfriend sitting there and her young child sitting in the back seat, that's not a training problem that a jury let go. there is too much room in the law that allows you to do something as blatant as that yet they say it's not against the law. the laws need to be in my opinion to be refined and where there's not that much wiggle room to say, oh, i was just scared. shot seven times? baby in the back seat of the car. >> yeah, that might very well be true. the reality is that deadly force

should be exceptional. i think the officer in this case said this was a robbery suspect in his mind, even if that's true, overwhelmingly people that are stopped, overwhelmingly people that are sought for robbery don't end up being shot and killed and that is where it should be. it should be an absolute, absolute minimal number of cases of deadly force and the reality is we are not there and we are not even close to being there at this point. >> mark, you mentioned prosecute for y'all. one of the things we have talked about for the last several years and finally got the governor in new york to do an executive order but not by law, we're fighting now to see that by law in california with the assembly bill that is headed to the senate there, special prosecutors because if you take it outside of the local prosecutor's politics who are usually elected and have to play to dealing with police unions and all and who depend on the

police departments that they may be prosecuting a member of, if you take it outside the prosecutorial conduct or misconduct for that matter becomes another issue and really takes it out of in many ways a subjective political analysis toward an objective pursuit of justice. >> yeah, i think that special prosecutors would be helpful, but i don't believe it's a panacea and i don't think it is an answer in dealing holistically with the issues that we face. i think it is an important step as we talk about reforming, you know, criminal justice reform or even police reform, special prosecutors would be very helpful and very useful, however, i think also that the strategies -- one is we have to get to the point where we're comfortable enough with understanding or recognizing when an officer creates the

jeopardy situation that he finds himself in and we have to have the tenacity as prosecutors, prosecutors have to have it, to really vigorously put on a case that establishes on behalf of the people that the police officer's deviations away from tax tick training led to the fatal encounter. until we get to that point whether it be a special prosecutor or local prosecutor we will still find the similar results. so it's a useful step forward, i'm supportive of it, but i understand that there needs to be an overall holistic reform package of criminal justice reform, police reform and really a different way of analyzing and deciding how to prosecute these cases. until we get prosecution, there will be no significant changes in the encounters these fatal encounters we're seeing across the nation. >> i agree. and we need good cops to start saying bad cops when they are bad. most cops are not bad, but good

cops need to say, yep, this was wrong. this is bad. and i'm not with that. >> right. >> just like we as community citizens do to those that cross the line in the community. thank you, eugene o'donnell, thank you marquez. up next, it's time for the party with a purpose, i'm talking about the upcoming essence festival in new orleans. more details in a minute. we will be right back. what do you have there?

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we must be determined that when president obama and the obama family, the first black family leaves the white house, that black concerns don't leave with them. >> my message nearly one year ago at the annual essence festival. next week i will be back in new orleans along with the best and

the brightest from around the nation promoting music, empowerment and community, and indeed it comes at a time when president barack obama is no longer at the white house. donald trump is. joining me now is michelle ebanks, the president of essence. michelle, this is the first huge gathering of plaques since president trump has been in office and you have your empowerment sessions, i spoke every year for 22 years. >> every year. >> you have congresswoman maxine waters all the way to a 19-year-old youth leader and. >> david bubernay. >> but you also have the best in music. every time the top entertainers. tell us what's happening because

hundreds of thousands of people come to this. this is the biggest gathering of blacks in the year. >> it is. it's the largest gathering and the party, you said party with a purpose. the party is at the super dome at night and we kick off on friday night with ms. diana ross. who will be there with john legend. saturday mary j.blige and she will be have chaka con -- >> all on one show. >> it will be the first time in our history we will have an all female night on all five stages curated by mary j. blige. >> is that right? >> we are very excited about that. and sunday we will end the evening with chance the rapper who will put on an amazing show, we will have master p., an incredible reunion, over 50 artists it will be a great

party. >> chance the rapper is quite an artist and a real fine young man. >> a fine young man. >> as we deal with the entertainment and the party with a purpose at night as we deal with the empowerment series, the fact that last year was the last year of the obama administration and i remember well when i came out to speak and we were talking, some of us that were involved, no one thought donald trump would be president and no one -- in fact, many of the women leaders that you have every year thought hillary clinton was going to be president. >> yes. >> so now we come back to have a party with a purpose, i think with a new energy because we have dealt with confronting confederate statues. i think essence is more important this year, essence music festival, than it has been in the 22 years that you have had it.

>> more important than ever and the energy, the response, it's the biggest festival that we will probably have. the energy, the activism, the f understand, how do we protect our interests, our rights? black women had the highest rate of voting in the last presidential election. and the organizers, women of color of the march on washington. this is a very active activist community of leaders, and it's going to be an important time to put the issues on the table and make sure we are fighting for what's right. >> and we can do that and enjoy ourselves. there has never been a separation. >> never a separation. >> even when i was a kid watching martin luther king and later working with his wife and others as i joined, they always had the mahaya jacksons and others, sammy davis, that was in

the movement. there was no separation. party with a purpose will be in new orleans and i'll be live from there next sunday morning. thank you, shelly. up next, my final thoughts of this ongoing debate about race and the police. stay with us.

i exchanged text messages early this morning with reverend joseph lowry. i mentioned him as one of my fathers in the movement. i exchanged text messages with him because after a week of seeing no convictions in three cases in three different areas of the country around policing, and with the shooting of a pregnant woman with mental issue challenges, it's the time where i start saying, what are we looking at, and what do we do? of course, everybody who goes to court is not to be convicted.

everybody who goes to court is not guilty. but when it seems like a pattern of ignoring police reform and rights of civilians and rights to question policing, when it seems as if it is going the other way when during the years of president obama, many of us helped to push and cajole it into finally going the way of accountability, it can get somewhat discouraging. the reason i reached out to reverend joe lowry is because he helped to found the southern christian leadership conference with dr. martin luther king jr. he chaired the board for it and he later became president. and i thought about if joe lowry and martin luther king and wild t. walker could keep fighting when their homes were bombed, keep fighting when, for nine years between the montgomery bus boycott before they finally got

a civil rights act, nine years where different people were questioning them and they were attacked by the right and attacked even in their community, and there was always a difference of opinion. for every martin there was a malcolm, then the young members of snake that disagreed but then you had the julian bonds and jesse jacksons that did agree. there was also tension, also fraction, and yet they kept going. you are not judged by your victories, you're judged by if you keep fighting in the face of defeat. if you keep fighting in the face of criticism. if you keep fighting even when those on your side turn on you. that's when we see who the real activists, the real patriots, the real believers in reform is. yes, it's been a tough week for those of us that believe in reform. that means only the tough will get off the mat and keep fighting. the rest will lay on the mat and start the blame game and start

making excuses. that does it for me. thanks for watching. i'll see you back here next sunday. ...that's heard throughout the connected business world. at&t network security helps protect business, from the largest financial markets to the smallest transactions, by sensing cyber-attacks in near real time and automatically deploying countermeasures. keeping the world of business connected and protected. that's the power of and.

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hi, everybody, good morning. i'm thomas roberts at msnbc headquarters in new york. it's 91 in the east, 67 in the north. reaching out to senators looking to lock up the health care bill which includes a new tweet. but will this effort fall short? >> we need three republican senators to do the right thing by their constituents. democrats at town halls trying to rally public support against the gop and the health care plan. i'll talk to one republican who voted no to his party's house bill. and with just four days until the bill is expected on the senate floor for a vote, will the gop senate leader mitch mcconnell be able to thr