>> it's slowly crawling down the mountain. >> jon: the latest efforts to douse the wildfires near yosemite. it's time for the annual report on the dumbest ways congress spend your money. it's all happening now. ♪ we begin on this wednesday with republicans planning their next move on health care with president trump, welcome to the second hour of "happening now." >> heather: thank you for joining us, another busy day. >> jon: everything is always changing in washington. >> heather: we don't know what was on the menu but we do know the president is hosting those senators right now the white house as he tries to get the obamacare repeal enough votes to pass. what is the latest? >> the plan is to vote on that repeal plan next week even if it

all they are good at is obstruction. they have no ideas, they've gone so far left they are looking for single payer, that's what they want. single payer will bankrupt our country because it is more than we take in for just health care. single payer is never going to work but that is what they'd like to do. they have no idea what the consequence will be and it will be horrible, horrible health care. you wait in line for weeks to even see a doctor. we are going to expand tax-free health savings accounts to increase health care coverage. getting washington out of the way and giving more control and funding back to the states. stabilizing exchanges so those pre-existing conditions are protected. if you listen to chuck schumer, before he even knew what the planet said, he did not see it. most of the people in this room never saw it. he was saying everyone is going to die, death. that is the only thing they were

worry about replacement later. it's interesting that he had this meeting, on camera. it's certainly a way to put public pressure on these lawmakers but you have to wonder whether it's an attempt to save a little face here, given that the first, second, third of this bill has failed. you hear some concerns about republicans of the president did a do enough to sell the bill on its merits and instead talked a lot about the politics. i think there is a lot of concern that the white house didn't do enough here and it might be a little too late. >> jon: to that point, he has been criticized even by members of his own party who have said he needs to get on board, he needs to strong-arm some people. really getting involved in this

deductibles are too high so people have to pay out-of-pocke out-of-pocket. we have narrow networks of doctors. there is a huge physician shortage. you had cars to the train with the wheels are falling off the train. >> some of the things he just brought up, the high deductible, that's not obamacare, that is insurance companies. let's separate where the evils lie. there is no question these things need to be fixed but you can't do it this way. we do need to shore up the markets and take both sides back to the table and solve this issue. which there are a number of ways to do. we have medicare, we know how well that works in our seniors and that is a cost-sharing initiative. 20%, that is similar to france's plan. that is one way we could do it. >> jon: part of the problem is obamacare mandate so much coverage for some people who

meanwhile the senate democratic leader is blaming the white house. >> president trump's blame game makes him look small and diminished. and people will begin to realize his lack of leadership and the

has failed, they know it. they are selling their plan and we never sell hours. if we've done anything it's on letting people know how good it was. we wrote down these few things. "repeals the individual mandate." how big is that? people are paying not to have insurance, nobody ever talks about that. repeals job killing employer mandate. how big is that? will substantially lower premiums, and remember this. cross-country lines, cross state lines. it's almost impossible for insurance companies to compete and say we can't because unfortunately the 60 votes, it's going to come very soon. that will calm in your premiums will be down 60 and 70%. people don't know that. nobody talks about it.

the g20 summit with president trump bashing media coverage of the news, tweeting this -- a russian spokesman had pretty much the same reaction, saying saying -- have to keep your answers short because we are going to get the tape play out from the white house and just to call minutes. this sideline conversation at the d20 summit, the president says no big deal. is that? >> it depends what was said, if it was a conversation like the president has had with past foreign leaders where he said some outlandish things it would be a big deal. we don't know what was said, the only person who does know is the president because he was alone

we are committing $45 billion to help combat the opioid epidemic. some states in particular like that. my message today is really simple, we have to stay here, we should not leave town and we should hammer this out and get it done. not just a repeal. early on with a few of the other folks at the table, the repeal was fine. we want to get more than a repeal. i think the people of this country need more than a repeal. they need a repeal and/or replace. we we were very close. and then little things happened, but now we are very close again. we have to get there. the other night we had a couple of things that we put down on paper, i'm just going to read them really fast. the democrats are always selling their plan but they don't do that anymore. they don't talk about obamacare anymore because they can't, it has failed, they know it. they are selling their plan and