i don't know bill cassidy. i never met him. he is lying about this bill. you explained pre-existing conditions. what they can do, however, is charge you as much as they want. pre-existing conditions are gone. health care is gone. this is nonsense. this is a ridiculous bill. it's a hard right bill. i don't think graham has any idea what's in this bill and ought to stick to foreign policy and stop this crap. >> julie, you will be our non partisan referee here. the closest thing we have. you're the closest thing we have to the cbo in this discussion. on the jimmy kimmel versus cassidy fight, how do you see it? >> well, it is mostly semantic fight. i think that the senators are right with language in the bill that seeks to protect pre-existing conditions but there's other language that undermines them so you can wave the essential health benefits, required benefits and you can charge people more and that way to offer people with pre-existing condition coverage without what they need and charge them things they can't afford and there is technically language in

bill passed. administration official telling cnn president trump will sign the graham cassidy bill if it reaches hisesk and another source adds the president encouraged graham and cassidy to take one last shot at health care reform. >> alexander chaired a senator bipartisan hearings and just called off further attempts to craft a limited bipartisan plan. a democratic senator cochaired those health chair committee hearings. she regrets the decision insisting significant common ground had been found. >> repeals obamacare man dates, loosens protections for people with preexisting conditions, also gives more authority on how to spend rev view from obamacare taxes. so your senate leaders foraging ahead despite the fact of the several influential interest groups came out against it. >> reporter: it became even more clear on tuesday what had started to percolate over the 48 hours prior. republicans are all in for one final repeal and replace effort but it replains also very clear that they're senators. they're trying to get their head around what this proposal would do. in a closed door lunch, a very impor

i guarantee he doesn't know anything about this graham/cassidy bill. sn't know the difference between medicare and medicaid. he barely knows the difference between melania and ivanka. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] this morning senator cassidy, there's a lot ofible in this, he went on fox news to fight back. he again said that i don't understand what i'm talking about because we haven't spoken for a he was on my show four months ago. but i don't know what the point of speaking to him is. we spoke, he told me one thing, he did another, are we supposed to do that again? people tell me give him the benefit of the doubt and i do give him the benefit the doubt -- i doubt all the benefits he claims are part of the new health care bill. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] but i do want to say about bill cassidy, i do admire what he's done with most of his life. he's a doctor, gastroenterologist, founded a community clinic, he's done good thing. i want him to keep doing good things, this plan is not a good thing. his supporters say, he's a doctor, what d

cassidy. lots of interest in the bill that senator cassidy and senator graham have been working on. i asked them to join today and lead off. so have at it, guys. >> number one, i never felt

not only did it fail the jimmy kimmel test, he failed the bill cassidy test. thank god, republicans like susan collins and lisa murkowski and john mccain torpedove oed they have the good sense to do that. these other guys who claim they want americans to have better health care. even though eight years ago they didn't want they will to have health care at all. they're trying to do this without an natural sfris the bipartisan budget office. they don't even want you to see it. they're having one heg.inarread in a homeland committee and the chairman agreed to allow two witnesses. bill cassidy is that lindsey graham to speak. health care is complicated. it is boring. i don't want to talk about it. the details are confusing and thathat they're relying w's on. they're counting on you to be so overwhelmed. that you'll count they will to take care of you and we're looking at our i ungrtansam lik they're voting whether people can afford to keep their wmohoen alive. will vote this probably won't even read it. they want to us treat it like an itunes service agreement. an

this guy, bill cassidy, just lied right to my face. >> now all eyes on possible gop holdouts. like alaska's lisa murkowsky who met with graham and cassidy today. >> alaska's governor doesn't like your plan wants you to go back to bipartisan approach. >> there is zero possibility in a bipartisan manner to replace obamacare. >> president trump at the u.n., pulled his party to pass the plan now. >> i thought that when i won, would go to the oval office, sit at my desk, there would be a health care bill on my be honest. >> senate rules give republicans until next saturday to pass a health care bill with a simple majority. that's why this plan is suddenly on the fast track. anthony, with no time for the congressional budget office to determine how many people might lose coverage. >> nancy cordes. thanks. british police made two more arrest tuesday in the london subway bombing. five people are now in custody. 30 people were hurt when the bomb partially exploded. and now, mark phillips reports, amazon is reviewing procedures, after it was revealed its website may unwittingly help woul

don't know what happened to bill cassidy, but when he was on the publicity tour he listed demands forh care bill clearly. these were his words. coverage for all, and no discrimination based on pre-existing conditions and no lifetime caps. guess what? the new bill does none of those things. this guy, bill cassidy, just lied right to my face. do you believe that every american regardless of income should be able to get regular checkups, maternity care, et cetera, all of those things that people who have health care get and need? >> yep. >> so yep is washington for nope, i guess. stop using my name, okay? i don't want my name on it. there's a new jimmy kimmel test for you, and it's called the lie detector test and you are welcome to stop by the studio and take it anytime. >> harsh words, and joining us now is senator bill cassidy. what is your response? >> i am sorry he doesn't understand. more people will have coverage and we protest those with pre-existing conditions. states like maine, virginia, florida, missouri, there will be billions more dollars to provide health insurance coverag

not only did bill cassidy fail the jimmy kimmel test, he failed the bill cassidy test.iled his own test. you don't see that happen very much. and this guy, bill cassidy, just lied right to my face. call your congress person. 202-224-3121. you can't just click "like" on this video. tell them this bill doesn't pass your test. >> the co-sponsor of the bill lindsey graham was asked for his response. >> i wish he would have asked senator cassidy if it's true. he bought it hook, line and sinker and i don't like the idea of calling this good man a liar without ever talking to him first. that really says more about mr. kimmel than dr. cassidy. >> but states would be able to cover people with pre-existing conditions -- >> that's garbage. that's absolute garbage. >> the legislation specifically says that the state applying for a waiver would have to ensure that those with pre-existing conditions would have access to adequate and affordable coverage. >> senator tim kaine was the democratic vice presidential candidate in 2016. so you saw your colleagues call this idea that there's

tell them this bill doesn't pass your test. senator cassidyyou were on my show, you seemed like a decent guy. here's the thing. nobody outside of your buddies in congress wants this bill. only 12% of americans supported the last one and this one is worse. right now there's a bipartisan group of senators working to improve the health care system we have. we want quality affordable health care. dozens of other countries figured it out. [ applause ] instead of jamming this horrible bill down our throats, pitch in and be a part of that. i'm sure they could use a guy with your medical background. if not, stop using my name, okay? because i don't want my name on it. there's a new jimmy kimmel test for you. it's called a lie detector test. you're welcome to stop by the >> we're joined now by democratic senator chris van hollen of maryland, a member of the senate budget committee. senator van hollen, the picture that jimmy kimmel was showing was a picture of senator bill cassidy who actually appeared on his program. and in another part of what jimmy k

. >> harsh words, and joining us now is senator bill cassidy. what is your response? >> i am sorry he doesn't

senator doctor bill cassidy is a class act who really cares about people and their health care. he doesn't lie. just wants to help people.

bill cassidy is one of them. ere was a strong letter from the governor of louisisiana against this bill, and he is not going to change his mind on that. amy: j john mccain will sisincee governor of arizona said he would support this. >> right. he is one to watch. john mccain's gripes about this bill are a lot about process as well a substance. the process they're using to force this bill to the floor before the end of the month is a little crazy. sort of a crude imitation of regular order. they have all of the pieces, but not complete. they're getting a cbo score next week, but he won include information on how many people could lose their health insurance or whether premiums would go out or down under this bill because the cbo does not have time to make that analysis. they're going to have a single hearing, potentially mere days before a vote, and that is in the finance committee. the top democrat, ron wyden, has said he was not consulted at all about setting up the hearing and called it a sham process. that is n

for lots of people, the graham/cassidy bill will result in higher premiums. likely. with graham/cassidy there will be no lifetime caps in many states. possible but not certain. because there's no cbo score, there's nothing there that says jimmy kimmel is wrong. >> nothing that says he's right either! >> likely. because there's no cbo score there's nothing there that says jimmy kimmel is wrong. >> right, but there's nothing that says he's right. >> -- he's right either. >> likely, possible but not certain because there's no cbo score. but you're saying he's absolutely wrong. >> all the fact checks prove him wrong. >> i said the fact checks were on jimmy kimmel's side. >> you said unverifiable is on his side? >> it doesn't say no. it doesn't say no. >> why do we assume he's right? why don't we trust matt lewis' jmtd? matt louis lewis might be right. >> if you had a child with an illness and you had a compelling reason, i might say you're right. jimmy kimmel has a child that's dealing with the health care system. he's studying about this, he probably knows more about it

s/senador bill cassidy, (r-la) (nat) dijo esta semana que "los republicanos estn ms cmodos dndole elda estado para que ellos mismos busquen las soluciones que ms les convengan" su propuesta. (gfx) eliminara el requisito de que todas las personas compren seguro de salud. derogara la expansin del programa medicaid. y dejara que cada estado decidiera si quiere eliminar o mantener protecciones populares de obamacare - como los beneficios esenciales o protecciones para personas con condiciones preexistentes. se necesitaran cincuenta votos en el senado para que la medida se aprobada. s/randy serrano de ganar la batalla en el senado los republicanos tendrían que convencer a sus colegas en la cámara baja donde también podría haber algo de oposición. blanca ---san francisco pagar por los gastos de aplicaciones de renovacin de daca. ---la fecha limite de este programa es el 5 de octubre, la ciudad se har cargo de los 495 dolares. ---el sbado habr un taller de informacin en la escuela mission localizada en el 37-50 de la calee 18th en san francisco de 1 a 5 de la tarde donde adems de informacin

. --- la propuesta, patrocinada por "lindsay graham y bill cassidy", dejara en su lugar la mayora de los impuestos actuales de "obamacare", pero le dara ese dinero a los estados para que cada uno lo use como quiera en asistencia de salud... algo que preocupa a muchos. take sot 00:12sec annette raveneau, families usa "van a poder tomar los fondos de salud para usarlos para cualquier cosa que ellos vean necesario para el estado. entonces las personas que necesitan esos fondos para salud simplemente ya no los van a tener más". cont vo cesar - pero el senador cassidy, uno de los autores de la propuesta dice que los republicanos estn ms cmodos dndole

minutespent seven criticizing cassidy over the bill. you might recall kimmel made a passionate plea for health care after his infant son had open heart surgery. four months ago, cassidy came on his show and promised a bill that would pass the jimmy kimmel test come which is no family should be denied medical care because they cannot afford it. kimmel had this to say last night. jimmy: and this guy, bill cassidy, lied right to my face. do you believe that every american, regardless of income, should be able to get regular checkups, maternity care, all of those things that people who have health care get and need? senator cassidy: yep. "noy: yep is washington for ," i guess. this is not my area of expertise. i area of expertise is eating pizza, to our children and senior citizens and veterans, or any of us. before you post a nasty facebook message saying i am politicizing my son's health problems, i want you to know i am politicizing my son's health problems, cause i have to. [applause] adrianna: kimmel went on to tell viewers to call cong

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senators lindsey graham, bill cassidy, and ron johnson unveiled their proposal in a capitol hill press briefing. >> binding is the only thing standing between you and single-payer health care. [laughter] >> we will go over a bill that has been in the making for about a month. bill cassidy is going to walk you through the details. rick santorum will tell us how history is on our side, ron johnson will discuss numbers, and we will discuss how this is a good deal for -- the countries as a whole. if you believe repealing and replacing obamacare is a good idea, this is your best and only chance to make it happen. every thing else fails, except this approach, which will work if we get behind it. healths a single-payer care system, this is your worst nightmare. bernie. this injured dream of a single-payer health care system people ona -- we need board now to stop what i think is inevitable if we fail, which is single-payer health care for all, which is the end of quality and the end of a sustained federal judge it. there are three choices. part -- prop up obamacare, bernie care, or our bill.

> i obviously have very serious reservations about the bill. >> reporter: pence pressing hard for a vote next week. >> a vote against graham-cassidy is a vote to save obamacare. >> reporter: the congressional budget office, which is nonpartisan, still hasn't given a score for this bill that would give senators some idea of how many people might lose their coverage, and tonight the question whether republican leaders will even put it on the floor for a vote. lester? >> kasie hunt at the capitol tonight. thanks. >>> now to puerto rico where a failing dam pushed past the limit by hurricane maria is triggering new flash floods and evacuations tonight. while power outages have crippled communications, hampering search and rescue efforts across the battered american territory. our gabe gutierrez is there. gabe, good evening. >> reporter: lester, in many places the floodwaters are receding, but many communities are still inundated. throughout puerto rico there is no power, no communication and no idea how long it will take to recover. tonight, puerto rico is exhausted, town after town under water and under pressure. maria may have passed

is it bill cassidy or jimmy kimmel?ected to end up nine months into the hell care debate. look, both have points that are accurate here, but jimmy kimmel is probably more on the side of right here. again, nuance is important and there are specific designs in this bill. as i noted, state flexibility is something that republicans, conservatives have been pushing very hard. it's the kind of essential idea behind changing the subsidies structure spiral, sending block grants to the states and letting states design their own systems. but in that flexibility becomes a reduction of the regulations. the regulations that make sure guaranteed cams are there, that make sure price protections are maintained and on the idea of more people being covered, don, the way this bill is drafted, the way these block grants will go out, the way medicaid will change from an open-ended sbietment, the spending will go down. if spending goes down, states are going to have to make very difficult decisions about coverage. the idea that there will be

took a look at the politics and said this about the graham-cassidy bill yesterday. >> i believe that eally will do it the right way. it is doing it the right way. there is tremendous support from republicans. sadly we're 47, 48 senators. others looking at it very positively. for seven years i have been hearing repeal and radio place. we have been hearing how bad it is. hearing the premiums going on. looking at deductibles going up. premiums worse than this year last year they were 100 percent increase. 116%. i think there is tremendous support for it i think it's much better than the previous shot which was very sadly let down. i thought that i would go to the oval office, sit down at my desk and there would be a healthcare bill on my desk to be honest. and it hasn't worked out that way. and i think a lot of republicans are embarrassed by it but i have to tell you i think they are going to do a great. if this happens, i think it will be a great thing for the country. steve: the president would love to see something done because when he was running he promised to try to fix it the big

this guy bill cassidy lied right to my face. >> jesse: bill cassidy was from louisiana on the show. he is responding to mr. kamel. >> he is wrong. it will increase coverage and protect those with pre-existing conditions particularly with those who have not had the benefits of medicaid expansion. we help those in those states. millions of americans. >> jesse: do think kamel is being helpful to the debate? >> dana: everyone has a right to say what they think. there are times when and i do this too, yet talk to someone who has had a personal experience and you listen because they have a compelling story. it's moving and you think cost, good point but it's not the best way to make public policy. and bill cassidy from louisiana, he's a doctor himself. he spent years working in charity hospitals. this is not somebody who is basically trying to get risk way can kind. i think there's a lot of momentum this week. it may be last of 48 for this bill. now congress is going home. can they withstand the pressure from something like the jimmy kimmel appearance last night? the facebook comments tha

jimmy kimmel spent 7 minutes excoriating bill cassidy over this bill. called him a liar. you'll recall kimmel made a passionate plea for healthcare after his infant son had open heart surgery. four months ago -- cassidy came on his show and promised a bill that passes the "jimmy kimmel test" -- which is "no family should be denied medical care, emergency or otherwise because they can't afford it." well... kimmel said this last night - kimmel urged viewers to call their congress and vote down the health bill. the monologoue was trending worldwide overnight. it's 5: and time for a check on weather. - maria heading towards puerto rico. landfall just a few hours awa - still a category 5. max winds 165 mph - unseasonably warm weather ahead - fall arrives friday at 4:02 pm - dry through the weekend today: mostly sunny. warm and muggy. highs: 85-88 winds: nw 5-10 mph tonight: clear to partly cloudy. patchy fog. lows: 63-68 winds: nw 5 mph thursday: mostly sunny to partly cloudy. highs: 84-87 winds: nw 5 mph kidd o'shea in the now.. if you're searching online for news about avril

one of those critics is comedian jimmy kimmel who let loose on one of the bill sponsors, senator bill cassidy. >> most of the congress people who voted this bill probably won't even read it and they want us to do the same thing, treat it like an i tune service agreement. this guy, bill cassidy, just lyled right to my face. >> another critic of that plan is colorado governor john hickenlooper, one of several governors who signed a letter against it and he joins me right after a quick break. i work overtime when i can get it. i need my blood sugar to stay in control. i need to cut my a1c. weekends are my time. i need an insulin that fits my schedule. ♪ tresiba® ready ♪ (announcer) tresiba® is used to control high blood sugar in adults with diabetes. don't use tresiba® to treat diabetic ketoacidosis, during episodes of low blood sugar, or if you are allergic to any of its ingredients. don't share needles or insulin pens. don't reuse needles. the most common side effect is low blood sugar, which may cause dizziness, sweating, confusion, and headache. check your blood sugar. low blood sugar can be

last week bill cassidy and senator lindsey graham propose add new bill, the graham/cassidy bill and it passes the jimmy kimmel test, but a different jimmy kimmel test. this one, your child with a preexisting condition gets the care he needs if and only if his father is jimmy kimmel. otherwise, you might be screwed. this guy, bill cassidy, just lied right to my face. >> here's cassidy's response today. >> do you think that this legislation passes the jimmy kimmel test? >> absolutely. >> he called you a liar last night. >> a personal attack anned i can't help that but can say if you're in texas or in maine, in virginia, missouri they'll be resources in your state that you did not have to provide you coverage and we have protections from pre-existing conditions. >> i'm joined now by republican senator ron johnson of wisconsin, of course, one of the big four co-sponsors, whose name is on the new health care bill. that is attempting to repeal obamacare. senator, welcome back to the show, sir. >> chuck, how you doing? >> okay. let me start with a larger funding question. why did -- why did y

thankst of all, i want to bill cassidy -- i want to think bill for all of his work, mr. graham, rick santorum, and everyone else. they really did with senator graham's said, our last chance of repealing what i think has done a lot of harm to a lot of americans. obamacare is unsustainable. had 100,000 wisconsinites to pay the obamacare penalty, many of them make less than $62,000 a year. the average premium increase in premiums- wisconsin's have by and large doubled because of the artificial nature , the faulty at -- architecture of obamacare. in many cases, premiums had tripled. i had appreciated about president clinton -- the craziest thing in the world, he was talking about the forgotten men and women. sometimes working 60 hours a -- i would say sometimes try one coverage cut in half. they can't afford obamacare. simply the truth. --se forgotten men and women is person wrote to me, they clearly had to cash in their 401(k), sell their house. debt or payback for subsidies they got under obamacare because they make close to $60,000 a week. -- a year, sorry. those forgotte

bill cassidy. >> thank you for being here. you may know that i've worked in the louisiana charity hospital system for 25 years and it was a system that was basically if you are poor that's where you went and i learned that the politician controls the dollars the system lights up to serve the politician. if the patient controls the dollar the system lines up to serve her. the thing we are trying to do is give the patient the power. we want the system to line up with that patient wherever she may live. some will say my gosh what's wrong with the status quo? we should continue. this is saying out there that obamacare only works if you don't and i will give you an example of a fellow who is a talk-show host in louisiana. he is a self-employed person. his premium per year is over $40,000 with a 5000-dollar deductible and an additional deductible. think about that. he's going to face $50,000 a year between his premium and his deductibles. the mortgage of a 500,000-dollar home. louisiana is considered to be one of the states in which

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the president and i believe the graham-cassidy bill is the right idea.he president is absolutely determined to keep his promise to repeal and replace obamacare. we are urging every american to reach out to members of the senate and the house and urge them as the senate takes up this bill next week to vote to support graham-cassidy and repeal and replace obamacare. steve: we had senator rand paul on yesterday and he said he is leaning toward being a no because it doesn't really replace and repeal. it's kind of a work-around. a lot of people are looking in thinking well, they've got a plan. it better be better than what we've got right now. can you tell us that it's better than obamacare? >> almost anything would be better than obamacare. obamacare is imploding. it's collapsing all across the country. it's remarkable to see the pattern. we have seen people losing their insurance, losing their doctors. we have seen the average american see the cost of their insurance go up by more than $3,000. have you got thousands of counties across the country where ther

it's called a lie detector test and you are welcome to stop by the studio and take it anytime. >> bill cassidyn "new day" this morning and responded to the criticism last night and this is what he had to say. >> i am sorry he does not understand. under graham cassidy, more people have coverage and we protect those with pre-existing conditions. there will be billions more dollars to provide health insurance coverage for those in those states that have been passed by by obamacare and we protect the pre-existing conditions. >> and he did say he doesn't take the criticism from jimmy kimmel personally and he said everybody is passionate about health care and everybody looking for the best path forward. the best question we have up here on capitol hill is this republican plan the path forward and good enough to get the 50 republican votes to get it through to passage. >> ryan, standby. we have breaking news. a busy morning. we want to go back to mexico right now. we told you about a collapsed school, and many feared dead there. and what can you tell us? >> reporter: good morning. i am in the south p

last night jimmy kimmel said he's had enough. >> this guy, bill cassidy, just lied right to my face. >> reporter: do you think this legislation passes the jimmy kimmel test? >> absolutely. there will be people in states like -- >> reporter: he called you a liar last night. >> it was a personal attack. and i can't help that. >> reporter: cassidy's bill with lindsey graham would eliminate the individual mandate to buy insurance, redistribute medicaid expansion and obamacare subsidy money to individual states to let them implement their own plans, but states could opt out of covering pre-existing conditions, though they would have to explain how they intend to keep those people covered. but experts warn -- >> that is the only bill we've seen so far that effectively lets state just dump that pre-existing condition requirement. it allows insurers to discriminate against you if you're sick. >> reporter: former president obama today defending his signature legislation. >> it's certainly frustrating to have to mobilize every couple of months to keep our leaders from inflicting real human suf

listen to bill cassidy. >> i'm not doing the whip count but i do know we are addressing members' concernse have momentum. >> reporter: you hear cassidy talking about momentum. i heard the same thing from ron johnson earlier today but momentum can only go so far. the magic number here is three. three republicans can.stop it in its tracks. rand paul is a very hard no. he is not changing his note on this. in the last half hour susan collins says she is introducing a bill with bill nelson of florida to do fixes for obamacare. that sounds to me like it would be mutually exclusive to doing a a bill that would do away with it. while sole collins hasn't said i'm voting no on this bill everything about the way she is behaving suggestion she will vote no. and murkowski and mccain are keeping their cards close to th are keeping their cards very close to the vest, but they both have their problems with this bill. >>> i want to take a deeper look into what the bill means. i want to go to randy slavich. you heard my breakdown, i try and be as good at this as i can, but this is a big that has not been s

bill cassidy invited him into it. he said that the bill would have to pass the jimmy kimmel test. jimmy kimmel says i now have to know what's in this bill because you're putting my name on it. that's what got him thrust into it. he's not doing this for ratings, and he's not doing this for attention. he's doing this for the heart that was in his son that he had to get repaired and he's feeling the same way about other people's hearts. that's what he's involved with. he's not doing it for attention. he's a really honest, decent guy trying to do this. and his past as a comedian is garbage that's being thrown at him by people that are trying to undermine the legitimate point he's making. they know he's being effective and they're trying to throw anything at him that i think is completely illegitimate. >> the fact that he's being effective is again my point from earlier. see, i think it was -- even though i agree with my friend matt on the substance of this, i don't agree with the attack on jimmy kimmel because people tune that out. bill cassidy should not have come out and tried to at

graham says the bill is not about limits or restrictions. >> we're going to get flexibility to cover sick people, but sick people will be covered. >> senator graham and senator cassidy say the bill meets the jimmy kimmel test which he means affordable health care for people regardless of pre-existing conditions. >>> breaking news out of north philadelphia. that's where police say a man was shot and killed execution style. officers arrived at the scene at 17th and cumberland streets around midnight and found blood on the ground but no victims. they say they eventually discovered him a few blocks away in a car that was en route to the hospital. that's where he died. the victim has not been identified yet. police have not made any arrests. >>> one man is dead, another in the hospital this morning following a shooting and car crash at strawberry mansion. police tell us somebody opened fire on the car at 33rd and cecil b. moore avenue. the driver was shot and killed. a passenger was shot in the head. he's in critical condition but stable. you can see the cash crashed into a ditch. investigators found seven bullet holes in the car. >>> 5:06. to a followup on a story to th

kimmel was calling out cassidy after he pledged a couple of months ago to support a bill what would passel test. senator cassidy was responding to kimmel's plea for better health care for all after his newborn son had to go through open heart surgery. first here's kimmel and here is senator cassidy responding on cnn. >> i don't know what happened to bill cassidy, but when he was on this publicity tour, he listed his demands for a health care bill very clearly. these were his words. he said he wants coverage for all, no discrimination based on pre-existing conditions, lower premiums for middle class families and no lifetime caps. and guess what, the new bill does none of those things. and this guy, bill cassidy, just lied right to my face. stop using my name, okay, because i don't want my name on it. there's a new jimmy kimmel test for you, it's called the lie detector test. >> i'm sorry he does not understand. under graham/cassidy/heller/johnson more people will have coverage and we protect those with pre-existing conditions. >> our bill gives the governor responsibility, which he or she

>> i have always been a yes for repeal, but the bill unfortunately, the graham/cassidy bill keeps most of the obamacare spending, almost all of it and just reshuffling it and block grants it to the states. i don't think block granting it makes it go away, it just makes the money you're spending still in obama care. reshuffle it, take the money from democrat states and giving it to republican states. it sets up a food fight over the formula. what happens when the democrats win? they are going to try to claw back that money. this is a bad idea, not repeal. however, all that being said, if they narrow the focus to all the things we agree on, expanding health savings account, giving more freedom through waivers, slowing down the rate of growth of an outrageous entitlement spending, sure, i would be for that, but just not for this block granding concept because it is affirmative that i have agreed to keep obama care. >> if you can't accept the block grant concept, then you will never support this bill. is that fair to say? that's the centerpiece of the bill. >> they could remove it and then

. >> reporter: republicans bill cassidy and lindsey graham sprinted from meeting to meeting today. >>re going to take the bill up next week. >> reporter: ...trying to close the sale on the party's last, best shot at replacing obamacare. >> they might get the votes. >> reporter: the graham-cassidy bills would keep obamacare's taxes in place but turn most of the revenues over to the states to come up with their own health care systems. former president obama, in a rare public appearance, argued today that some states might allow insurers to once again charge more for pre-existing conditions. >> it's certainly frustrating to have to mobilize every couple of months to keep our liewrds from inflicting real human suffering on our constituents. >> reporter: cassidy insists his plan does meet what he dubbed the jimmy kimmel test. kimmel himself slammed the plan last night. >> he failed his own test. and this guy, bill cassidy, just lied right too my face. >> reporter: now all eyes are on possible g.o.p. holdouts like alaska's lisa murkowski, who met with graham and cassidy today. alaska's gov

>> it's a bill senator cassidy and graham have put together.lly an all-in effort here by the trump administration to try and make some magic happen. obviously, a month or so ago, you know, the health care effort failed in fairly epic fashion on the floor with that vote of no by senator john mccain. there's an effort now led by vice president pence and others in the administration to try to muscle this through somehow, to convince senator lisa murkowski of alaska to convince john mccain of arizona to get onboard with this and live up to their campaign promises. but they're moving so fast a lot of the details of this bill are not yet known. the congressional budget office has not yet scored it, meaning we don't actually know the full impact and reach of what it would mean for people's lives out in the country. and those are some of the questions a lot of voters are having at this point as they see this moving forward full steam ahead. >> as they say, what could go wrong? before we stole her vivian was in that white house briefing room every day.