by the way go back to cassidy collins.the nice thing about cassidy collins is that is the conservative federalist approach which give the states guidelines in every state there pressure and allows them to come up for the answer for their state. it takes the decision-making away from us, returning it to the patients in the state, that's where we should be. >> chris: then there's the idea that president trump offered in a tweet a few days ago a must but this up on the screen, if republican senators are unable to pass what they're working on now, they should immediately repeal and then replace at a later date. what you think of that? >> nonstarter. it will be an uncertainty in the insurance markets, romance will rise for middle-class families. it gives all the power to people who don't believe in president trumps campaign pledges. who actually don't want to continue to cover in care for pre-existing conditions. it gives them the stronger hand. i think it's on. i think it betrays president trumps campaign pledges. >> chris: so

by the way, i go back to cassidy collins.he nice thing about cassidy collins as you said it is a conservative federalist approach which actually gives the states guidelines, give every state their fair share and allows them to come up with the answer for their state. it actually takes that decision making away from us, returning to it the patients and the state. that's where we should be. chris: and then there is the idea that president trump offered in a tweet a few days ago, and let's put this up on the screen, if republican senators are unable to pass what they are working on now, they should immediately repeal and then replace at a later date. what do you think of that? >> nonstarter. i will tell you, it will be uncertainty in the insurance markets. premiums will rise for middle class families. it gives all the power to people who actually don't believe in president trump's campaign pledges, who actually don't want to continue to cover and care for preexisting conditions and to lower premiums. it gives them the stronger h

if you look at what about, whats talking about, forget cassidy-collins for a how much trouble is repeal and replace and connect >> senator cassidy: if you're only talking about the draft pass, ten senators have said they would not vote for. on the other hand a new iteration that becomes more past. if we continue on that pathway i do think we come up with both a and one that fulfills the campaign pledges. >> senator cassidy: this diskette passed by the end of that.nth? >> senator cassidy: i don't know that >> chris: do want to pu it? >> senator cassidy: people poinpr 20, 30, $40,000, we have to do something to stabilize the market for those families currently kind of groaning between elements beneath obamacare. forward, obamacare -r merican people wa that matters to them and not have somebody in washington, d.c., tell them what the decision. obamacare tells them what that decision should be. it may take a while but we will get to a point that power goes back to the family and that's where it should be. >> chris: but it might not legie calendar. >> senator cassidy: it may not happen compl

you're the work of cassidy, alexander, collins, corker, cotton, hatch, isakson, moran, mccain, paul. what i would tell those colleagues and all the others, the idea hasn't magically gotten better with age.n it is still nothing more than a cut and run approach to health care that will leave millions of americans out in the cold and raise costs on everyone, the young, the old, the sick, the healthy, working americans and middle-class families. everyone will be hurt, but the very, very wealthy. mr. president, every day the republicans spend on trying to pass there now failed partisanly trumpcare bill, every day they spend cooking up new tricks to bully their members to get on a health care bill is another day wasted, another day that could've been spent working on real improvements to our health care system. democrats want to work with our colleagues on the republican side to stabilize the marketplaces and improve the cost and quality of care. and want to do it via regular order.im process this body as the time of the gentleman has expired begin to produce consensus, bipartisan, histori

i would argument that there are some fundamental differences between cassidy/collins plan and the affordable care act. that's what the governor and the people of delaware to decide. if louisiana says we cannot afford 20 or $30,000 on premiums on the market, let us do something different. it should be for the people of the state to decide. if you see one program to make sure everybody has insurance, you see one program to make sure one program that everybody has insurance. >> i want to close out the conversation, is medicaid going to be the default for insurance options for folks that cannot get any insurance at this point? >> is this the default? >> when i was 29-year-old, right out of the navy, when i was state treasure, i thought medicaid was healthcare. >> that was the stereotype. >> it was not today. a lot of them are poor. two millions of them are veterans and for us to walk away from that obligations, i don't think we want to do that. are there ways to provide medicaid of an effective way. many states, we have private insurance, in order to hold down cost. >> i feel that's the fundamen

durbin spoke to that and without giving away a confidential conversation, obviously it still was cassidy collinsnow graham cassidy, unfortunately not senator durbin. >> do you think if senator mcconnell took reconciliation off the table and allowed it to be, you know, force the 60 vote, do you think you would have more democrats that would be willing to work with you? >> that political article that was written a couple weeks ago in which it basically quotes chuck schumer saying that he was going to keep everybody in line, debbie stab now saying every time i wanted to do the right thing, i was told don't do scenario, someone else saying i couldn't speak with republicans unless given perms. again, i'm frustrated by that. this should be an american solution, not a democrat or republican. i've done my best. i'm still going to do my best. >> where are you on this bill if your amendment doesn't pass? >> i have started reading the bill. i'm on page like 8 because i'm flipping back through the obamacare bill. i'll know hopefully bied end of the weekend how this bill afelkts by state and whether it fulfi

. >> there's a look at the cassidy collins bill, or let the states opt into obama care that want it. let states opt out that don't want to have it. it doesn't feel -- today felt like a funeral on capitol hill. nobody can look straight. they -- >> not among the democrats. >> i'm sorry. i am a republican. a republican who rallied for reform of the affordable care acts along the lines, where there were many ideas. it was a funeral. i don't know if lazarus is coming back from the dead. >> after how many years of running on this, and all these republicans running on this, it's incredible. >> yeah. it sucks the momentum out of -- look, the republicans have been on offense since trump won. the democrats tried to get the momentum back in the special elections and they failed every single time. they've been seeking a moment to regain the political momentum in washington. they got it. the republicans have to now get up and move on something. is it tax reform? is it a creative idea to restart health care? they have to think about what are we selling in 2018? if it's not going to be that we fixe

senator cassidy and collins have a bill that uses auto enrollment which is an interesting concept that we should be tackling. but as i conclude, mr. president, let me just tell you how naÏve i am. i'm just going to conclude and tell you how naÏve i am. i was a mayor and governor before i got it to the senate, and when you're a mayor and governor what you knows education and health care.ernor we've got i government here and the governor cooper you knower education and a company.we we afford governors, former governor sitting on the floor.at what you knows education which is your biggest point i did enter second-biggest line itemot was medicaid is health care. i tried to get on the committee when i got to the senate andth house not put on the committee. very disappointed her for four years accredited on h.e.l.p. committee. i got on a general 30 i was so excited find a more gets on the kind all about. i got a group of 13 democrat senators within 48 hours of getting on the committee januaro my committee chair senator alexander, a great committee chair to the finance chair, senator hatch, t

as far as the health care bill goes, collins and cassidy proposed a bill way in the beginning and collins said if the affordable care act works in a particular state keep it. then cassidy, where it doesn't work, do a new proposal. that way people won't be left out in the republicans and trump have to take some of the responsibility for the aca imploding on itself. >> thanks for the call. let's give tom a chance to respond. the house is getting ready to come in here., >> look, for the first part, about the media, the color makes a point. trump has been a showman his entire life. it's something that up until a couple years ago nobody thought he would've had a chance to let alone run for president but win and take over the republican party in the process and beat 16 other well-qualified candidates who people thought this was the biggest, broadest deepest republican bench in a generation and he plowed through them with no organization, spending very little money, and so he's managed to take his formula, whatever you think of it from his time as a reality star and a businessman and parlay that

senator cruz, senator cassidy and collins. i think you're going to see a real mix go through there.you will have a full play out in terms of this repeal now with implementation date about a year out, i think that will actually get some traction this week. the white house has been supportive of that, let's repeal it like we promised, let's say it's going to last for another year until we implement that and then let's have a real-honest open debate about future of health care in america. lauren: it's interesting because they get from august recess today, i'm sorry, their july 4th recess today but in three weeks they break for the august recess, should they cancel that? >> you know, they should trim it down a little bit. when we say recess, most of the members spend at least two or three weeks going around the state and holding town halls which will be fascinate if they still haven't gotten things done. they should shorten it and tighten it and invite the democrats to stick around and let's have a serious debate about health care. lauren: boyd, good to see you, thank you. >> thanks. ch

here they were, cassidy, alexander, collins, corker, cotton, hatch, izaacson, moran, murkowski, paul.e colleagues and all of the others, the idea hasn't magically gotten better with age. it is still nothing more than a cut and run approach to health care that will leave millions much americans out in the cold and raise costs on everyone, the young, the old and the sick and the healthy, working americans and middle class families, everyone will be hurt but the very very wealthy. mr. president, every day that republicans spend on trying to pass their now failed partisan trump care bill, every day they spend cooking up new tricks to bully their members to get on a health care bill is another day wasted. another day that could have been spent working on real improvements to our health care system. democrats want to work with our colleagues on the republican side to stabilize the marketplaces and improve the cost and quality of care. and we want to do it via regular order, a process this body has used time and time again to produce consensus bipartisan historic legislation. the majority le

cassidy, alexander, collins, corker, hatch, moran, mccain, murkowski, paul. i will tell those colleagues and all the others, the idea hasn't magically gotten better with age. it is still nothing more than a cut and run approach to health care that will leave millions of americans in the cold and raise costs on everyone, the young, the old, the sick, the healthy, working americans and middle class families. everyone will be hurt but the very, very wealthy. mr. president, every day that republicans spend on trying to pass their now failed partisan trumpcare bill, every day they spend cooking up new tricks to bully their members to get on a health care bill is another day wasted, another day that could have been spent working on real improvements to our health care system. democrats want to work with our colleagues on the republican side. to stabilize the marketplace and improve the cost in quality of care. we want to do it via regular order, a process this body has used time and time again to produce consensus, bipartisan, historic legislation. the majority lea

senator cassidy and collins have a bill that uses auto enrollment which is an interesting concept we should be looking at. as i conclude, mr. president, let me tell you how naÏve i am. i'm just going to conclude and tell you how naÏve i am.s i was the mayor and governor before i got to the senate and when you are a mayor and governor what you know is education and healthcare. you know education and we've got four governors, four governors sitting on the floor. what you know is education which is her biggest line item in your second-biggest line item is medicare and healthcare. i tried to get on the committee when i got to the senate and i was not put on the committee am very disappointed but for four years and try to get on the health care committee. i got on january 3rd and i was so excited, finally, working on something i know about. i got a group of 13 democrats and within on genera that i wrote a letter to my committee chair senator alexander and the majority leader and said if you want to fix healthcare we are here to sit down with you right now and fix it. i was naÏve enough to

senator cassidy and collins had a really good idea. i jumped on board early.e are taking their original concept and making it more robust and more palatable. governors are going to like what we are doing. >> walking and chewing gum at the same time. what a novel idea on capitol hill and beyond. senator graham, senator cassidy thank you for coming on and taking my questions. thank you. good luck. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. >>> a member of congress investigating the trump campaign's contact with russia, a different member of congress. you are going to hear what he says about the president's defense about his son's meetings and why president trump says vladimir putin would have actually preferred hillary clinton be president. that's coming up. >>> plus, we are going to show you live pictures. right now, we are moments away from president trump facing the media, holding a news conference in paris. stay with us. we'll be right back. (dog) mmm. this new beneful grain free is so healthy... oh! farm-raised chicken! that's good chicken. hm!? here come the acce

i think if we had a bill that looked more like cassidy collins, it would give power back to states aer in washington. we want to give it back to the states. ainsley: well, why don't you make sure that you do? that's what people put you in washington to do. >> i am so with you on that, and that's why we've been pushing for the patient freedom act. it returns power to patients and states, and general guidelines except from cash and besides with that, states figured out we would already be through with this if patients adopted freedom act. steve: and you've been on the program saying exactly what that would entail. senator pat, your colleague from the great state, he revealed the reason they're in the senate right now is he and his colleagues never thought donald trump was going to win, so he never came up with a plan. what's your response to what senator tumi said? >> i can't speak to pat, but i can speak to myself. i've been working on a replacement plan for different parts of obamacare since i was elected to the house of representatives. steve: which was? >> first we did the medicaid

cassidy. >> aye. >> ms. collins. >> mr. coons. >> no. >> mr. cornyn. >> mr. cotton. mr. cruz. mr.nelly. mrs. feinstein. mrs. fisher. >> aye. >> mr. franken. >> no. >> mr. gardner. >> mr. graham. mr. grassley. >> ms. harris. >> no. >> mr. hatch. >> aye. >> mr. heinrich. >> no. >> mr. heller. >> no. >> mr. ane mr. isaacson. >> aye. >> mr. johnson. >> aye. >> ms. clo mr. lahey. >> no. >> mr. markey. >> no. >> mr. menendez. >> no. >> mr. moran. mr. murphy. >> no. >> mrs. murray. >> no. >> mr. nelson. >> no. >> mr. paul. >> aye. >> mr. purdue. >> no. sorry, yes. >> mr. peters. >> no. >> mr. portman. >> mr. reid. mr. roberts. mr. rounds. >> aye. >> mr. rubio. mr. sanders. >> no. >> so you are watching them there on the senate floor. discussing this bill and to vote on bill specifically. the senior capitol hill producer, he is there right now. chadha, what can you tell us about this long night that we are watching unfold? >> this is a key vote here. this is not final passage on the bill. this is an amendment to scare down, skinny repeal of obamacare. they need to have a simple majority t

cassidy, alexander, collins, corker, cotton, hatch, moran, mccain, rutkowski, paul.es and all the others. the idea has not magically gotten better with age. it is still nothing more than a cut and run approach to health care. it will leave millions of americans out from the cold. raise costs on everyone, the young, the old, the sick, and healthy. working americans and middle-class families. everybody will be hurt, but the very, very wealthy. mr. president, every day that republicans spend on trying to pass there now failed to come up partisan trump-care bill, every day they spent cooking up new tricks to bully their members to get on health care bill, is another day wasted, another day that could have been spent working on real improvements to our health care system. democrats want to work with our colleagues on republican side. to stabilize the marketplace and approve the cost and quality of care. we want to do via regular order, the process that they've used time and time again to produce consistent, bipartisan, historic legislation. the majority leaders said in 20

i have talked to susan collins, lisa murkowski, bill cassidy. we've had moderate democrats. we want to fix, we want to repair the affordable care act and the problems we have in the private market and also different things we can do to make this thing robust and take care of people. also, we want to hold people accountable and responsible of how they're using their health care. in a most, you know, most accurate way but also to enhance the quality of life. to get them in a healthy lifestyle. here's the thing. in west virginia, if you never had health care before, the only health care was you went to the emergency room. you didn't go to the emergency room for preventative care. you went when you were sick or needed help. now you've got the most valuable thing we can give you, the wealth of a health card and not one word of instructions and no education of how you should use it to have a pbetter quality of life, a healthier life. let's try somecompassionate. have some empathy. for them to think, i can get rid of this with 50 plus 1 vote. the democrats passed it and divided the

that particular provision was in the cassidy-collins bill or the patient freedom act and it dove tailsy nicely with block granting these dollars back to the state to care for someone. it could directly contract the providers to provide assistance for a specific population, so imagine you have an indian reservation or if not an indian reservation which might be covered under another source of funding, another fairly isolated population which does not have access to health care. the state could say, okay, we're going to come in and provide providers specifically for that population. alaska may adopt this because they have 700,000 people stretched over a land mass almost as big as the lower 48. and that might be a solution that alaska comes up with. but the point being the solution would be specific for that state. unlike obamacare in which out of washington,d.c., washington bureaucrats dictate that the same approach is taken across the nation no matter how different the states are. in this, the money is given to the state and the state is asked to provide for their citizens in a way spec

cassidy, thank you so much for the time. good luck voting. >> thank you. >>> let's go now back, staying in washington, go to kaitlan collins there at the white house. we know the president is about to speak. tell me about this event. >> reporter: yeah, he's about to speak to a group of young men and women in the rose garden today. these are young men and women who act as mock senators for the day. it will be interesting to see what donald trump says to them because in his speech the other night to the boy scouts, he didn't talk a lot about what presidents typically talk about when they talk to 12 to 18-year-olds and instead he talked about his election win, hillary clinton, barack obama, so it will be interesting to see

if they totally bail on that, there's doug collins-cassidy plan, which would allow obamacare as is, and others to experiment with it. i think if only all of those fail, do you have republicans going to democrats and saying, look, we need something to prop up the exchanges. i think that is a last resort for republicans. >> bill: and this meeting with donald trump, jr., quickly, as or more to this or not, byron? >> it there could be. how far goes depends on if there is more to it. kevin corke really mentioned that.ca compiled for group here in the united states supported by people who support hillary clinton the idea is, if they are looking, talking to shady people, looking for information on donald trump, what is the big deal if donald trump, jr., takes a meeting with somebody, promises something that they don't have about hillary clinton? it may beat, no big deal. on the other hand, we can find out some other defects. we did not notice a couple days will. >> bill: thank you, byron. from the carolina shore, byron york. thank you for being back. it's been about a week? >> i felt like a lo

and theenator cassidy counterpart for his -- his counterpart from maine, the woman. host: susan collins? caller: yes. their plan is putting it to the state and i like that. land host: thank you, rebecca for that call. ron from mount pleasant, texas. your thoughts about health care and specifically what you think congress should do with anything at all? caller: well, i think congress should go ahead and do it president trump is suggesting because i'm a aca social worker here in texas. people thatnds of are looking for doctors that have medicaid through obamacare. there is no doctor within a 500 mile radius that will see these patients. host: you were talking about the same idea that senator ben sass of nebraska -- repeal the replace later? is that what you are talking about? caller: yes, but i have a way that he could be fixed. washington could fix the problem and it would be i just legislative activity. it could be passing two or three laws in congress. one that insurance companies would have to cover pre-existing conditions, and pass another law that children can stay on the health car

republican members like susan collins and bill cassidy have bills.ing them up aunds debating pros and cons and what we can do to improve health care. >> chuck schumer dug in and said under no circumstances will democrats be working with republicans on health care while they try to repeal. do you think that at this point there's going to be a willingness to go along with any kind of fix even with the risk of being seen as working with president trump? >> i think so. the first step in this was the decision, i think a day after we came in, of the republican party to say we want to do this through reconciliation. a one party process with 50 votes. they made that decision and then they have blocked the health care committee. the health committee from considering this matter. my committee has a fantastic chair, lamar alexander who knows this topic, our ranking patty murray who really knows this topic. all the committee members can work together in a bipartisan way to find fixes. i know my democratic colleagues, we have been chomping at the bit to finally h

beginning of the health care conversation there was a health care bill put forward by susan collins and bill cassidy from kentucky, they mentioned the supporters saying look there are ideas out here that we would be willing to talk about it. democrats are playing with a weaker hand here, when you're a minority party you have to do it in a bipartisan way. there is a sort of a little bit of opening here for the possibility of that on the issue of health care, but the next issue up here in the hopper will be tax reform. as for now, the guidance we got in the republican leadership they intend to do that process as a largely one-party exercise. i am hesitant to predict the bipartisan on the hill, but democrats will try to make it happen. i will add to that, the fracture that you have seen in the republican party on the hill is such that maybe there are republicans who decide to join some of these things in opposition to their leadership, just because the republican leadership here seems to be having a hard time steering the ship. >> in fact, david jolly, if you took the group of center that are literally

we are going to be talking to senator bill cassidy, he is a medical doctor, senator from louisiana, he and susan collins offering a more moderate plan and we will talk to about the way forward. are they going to be able to get something done in repeal and replace? if they don't get something done by the august recess, i have a feeling the senate will just give up. >> jon: it will be fascinating to see what happens. we'll be watching, sunday morning. chris wallace, "fox news sunday "fox news sunday." >> molly: a fox news alert on the opioid crisis, the cdc releasing new statistics showing doctors are prescribing the drugs at triple the rate of just eight years ago. >> hi, molly. if you suffer from pain, the chances that a doctor prescribes you and opioid depends at least in part on where you live. take a look at this map, a new study from the center for disease control found higher opioid prescription rates in areas with high unemployment and small towns. residents in some counties are prescribed a six times more opioid painkillers than those in other counties. >> the level of prescribing in 2015 was eno

, a bill was proposed way in the beginning by collins thecassidy -- they said it affordable care act worked in a particular state, keep it. and then cassidywhere does not work, do the new proposal. that is the way people will not be left out in the lurch. the republicans and trump have to take some of the responsibility for the aca and voting. host: i want to give tom bevan a chance to respond as the house is getting ready to respond here. guest: look, to the first part, i think about the media, the collar makes it point. trump has been a showman his entire life. it is something that up until a couple of years ago, nobody thought he would have had a presidency.n the and effectively take over the republican party in the process and beat 16 other well-qualified candidates, who people thought this was the biggest, broadest, deepest republican bench in a generation and he cloud through them with no organization, spending very little money, so he has managed to take his formula, whatever you think of it, from his time as a reality star and is a businessman, and parlay that into leader of the free world and he is going to continue to use that f

>> senator cassidy has been trying to push they pretty much since january. he partnered with senator collinse of the famous "no" votes, and states that don't like it so much could basically take the federal money and dao almost whatever they want with it. that's kind of the sticking point. whether there will be enough freedom, but the moderates might baulk that some of the protections could go away. so it doesn't strike me that this will make it that much easy to get moderates and conservatives on board, but it is kind of the last thing out there. >> maybe it's a hail mary. i have a feel we'll be talking again. thank you for your voice there in washington. so the word is the united states is closer to hosting the olympics in the next decades. let's go to los angeles. what's the story? did l.a. get is it? >> l.a. got the 2028 olympics, just a sense of euphoria here. you may know the bids came down between los angeles and paris, and there was a sentiment that paris should host 2024, because that would be the 100th anniversary. instead they say a deal has been worked out where paris gets 2024,

there is a piece of legislation in the senate sponsored by susan collins of maine and lindsey graham of south carolina and bill cassidyouisiana that says, let's give states the opportunity to do health care the way they want to do it. that could be the compromise. joe: when obama was the president, republicans had no problem passing obamacare repeal bills. it was only when the prospect that those could actually be signed into law that they backed and went back, does that suggest a certain level of intellectual dishonesty about some of the criticism we heard from her public and politicians all those years during the obama administration? mr. chen: i think it reflects the fact that this is a live fire exercise and the politics become important. it is one thing to vote for a repeal when you know the repeal is not going anywhere. to your point. but now they know if they vote without a replacement, they are on the hook. they could be on the hook regardless. politically, donald trump said we will let it fail and we will not own it. it is not the president's decision to make, it is the voters' decision. republicansm sure wan

listen to what susan collins of maine told me yesterday. >> i do need a complete overhaul in order to get to yes. i hope our colleagues. take another look at the bill that senator cassidynd i introduced earlier this year. i'm not claiming that bill's perfect, but it provides a foundation from which we could proceed. >> reporter: the big question, as senators continue to deal behind closed doors, they making subtle fixes to their original plan, or are they doing a major rewrite? it could potentially be a combination of both. we still haven't seen this new bill. in fact, many of the senators haven't even seen this new bill. so it's likely that the earliest that we'll see any kind of a vote on health care could be sometime next week. and there are many here who wonder if even that will happen as the prospects for this current bill seem very bleak. >> seems unlime. thank you. >>> 16 people killed when a marine corps plane crashed in mississippi. the fbi is at the scene investigating. no one survived the crash. this hour it's not clear what went wrong on the kc-130 that went down in rural leflor county, mississippi. it's one of the most widely used aircraft. the fire chief

rallies in maine, targeting senator susan collins, one of the swing votes, eight in colorado, seven in louisiana targeting the man you just showed, bill cassidy. five in alaska aimed at lisa murkowski, five in arizona aimed at jeff flake and those targeting dean heller, three in ohio with rob portman. you have one in pennsylvania targeting pat toomey, which is why the president's health secretary was pressed on one of the sunday shows at why the president's rally saturday night was about veterans issues, not healthcare and why he's been treating about the media instead of focusing on getting the bill passed. watch. >> he spent most of his team tweeting about anything other than health care. is the president too distracted to campaign for health care? >> absolutely not. the president has had multiple meetings with physicians, small business groups, with other folks that have been harmed by obamacare, with patients, individual stakeholders from across this land who tell him and have told us repeatedly the current system is collapsing. that's what the president talks about. >> time running out on the president, his cabinet. republican leaders to

collins, lisa murkowski. in addition i know you have reporting on senators lindsey graham of south carolina, bill cassidy of louisianaorking separately on a compromise bill. tell us about that. >> right. more of an alternative bill, if what ryan was just reporting on simply can't get the 50 votes which is what they need. the 50 republican votes to pass the senate. and the difference i would say between what they're talking about now, the kind of current republican bill, and this alternative, is that they would take the money and take the policy and send it back to the states. it's modeled on welfaree form. back in 1996, and the idea is to let the governors really dictate how health care will be run in their states. make it state-by-state. the initial -- idea, something they actually just adopted in the other bill, which is to use the money that -- that is, the taxes on wealthy americans. i mean, one of the major issues with the current bill and one of the reasons why republicans are twisted into many, many pretzels, in ub one, very hard to sell the notion of keeping -- excuse me, repealing taxes for are the wealthy,

cassidy, thank you so much for the time. good luck voting. >> thank you. >>> let's go now back, staying in washington, go to kaitlan collins there at the white house. we know the president is about to speak. tell me about this event. >> reporter: yeah, he's about to speak to a group of young men and women in the rose garden today. these are young men and women who act as mock senators for the day. it will be interesting to see what donald trump says to them because in his speech the other night to the boy scouts, he didn't talk a lot about what presidents typically talk about when they talk to 12 to 18-year-olds and instead he talked about his election win, hillary clinton, barack obama, so it will be interesting to see what the president has to say today in light of all the news about jeff sessions and the major policy change that he announced on twitter today. >> here he is. shall we listen? let's listen. >> and i want to congratulate you, what a job you've all done. basically on all you've achieved at a very young age. it's incredible. for decades, the american legion has brought the best and the brightest to the white house. this has tak

again, one thing susan collins and i proposed which is inherent in the graham cassidy amendment is weomatically enroll folks unless they don't want to be. that's what we do with medicare. democrats support that. they told me privately. and so i do think that's an alternative policy that could be instituted instead of the individual mandate. i do think we probably have the votes, but i can't swear by that. >> i want to follow up by what you were saying to clarify. you're calling this a very skinny repeal, the goal of which is to advance the policy so you can then get other policy. are you saying what the senate is going to vote on maybe late in the middle of night tonight doesn't actually matter in the long run? republican leaders are arguing this is their big win on repealing obama care. >> it wins, because -- imsz. it's early. it absolutely matters because the american people have said over and over again, they don't like the individual mandate. they don't like the mandate upon employers. and there's been a bad effect of both. 50% of the people paying the individual mandate report an

cassidy of louisiana. since she has been back in the state, senator collins does not do a lot of town halls.ut she participated in a parade, a very well-known parade here in maine over the weekend was notuly 4 holiday, i there because unfortunately we had a state government shutdown at the time we were all covering , but from all the reports that we have seen and from what senator collins said, she said that people were really encouraging her to stand her ground against the health care bill, and were thanking her for her position and her criticism of it so far. host: and the editorial board for the portland press herald, senate: should fight health-care bill -- senator collins should fight the health-care bill, standing her ground. what exact changes is she asking for in order to be a guess vote? -- yes vote? guest: her big concerns right now seem to be focused a lot on the impact to medicaid, the cuts and the spending caps. maine is a rural state and we are also an old state. speaking how we are the oldest state in the country. about one in five main residence had on medicaid or their insur

cassidy and rubio, they are all just stunt in there. >> you did not need word to know what happened there hugh hewitt. >> it was so unexpected. look, three republicans voted for the status quo. senator collinsccocaine and murkowski. this was a decision to stand pat. people's medical situation do not wait for the regular order of the senate. i think unless they decide that they got to get the conference and take the best to fix this, they have not serious. >> this goes baack before trump. >> a bill does not become a law by pass whatever you can and write it. >> no, that's not regular order. >> that's not how it should happen. senator mccain is right. we should be surprised, senator mccain says he was not going to vote for this law. a conservative senator from south carolina states this policy is a disaster. republicans voting for what they all knew it is a disaster but none of them wanted them to become law. look at what happens in the senate when you had republican senators voted for something that none of them want to become law. the secretary, it is a failure and it is imploding and it is hurting people. the truth the matter is and as big of a fiailure they make it out to be, it is not go

cassidy. >> -- it won't make a difference. >> the majority of senators who are on the fence here have far outperformed donald trump in their districts and in their states, right? and the people that were looking at collinsmurkowski, john mccain, these people, john mccain outperformed. john mccain is not up for six more years if he is in the senate. >> let's listen in. >> ms. collins? mr. coons? >> no. >> mr. corker? mr. cornyn. ms. cortez masto. mr. cotton. mr. crapo. mr. cruz. mr. daines. mr. donnelly. >> no. >> ms. duckworth? >> no. >> mr. durbin? mr. enzi. mrs. ernst. mrs. feinstein. mrs. fisher? mr. blake? mr. franken? >> no. >> mr. gardner? >> i hear them. >> mrs. gillibrand. >> no. >> mr. graham? mr. grassley? ms. harris? >> no. >> ms. has semsem. >> mr. heinrich. >> no. >> mhide camp. >> mr. hirono. >> no. >> mr. hoven? mr. inhofe? mr. isackson. >> aye. >> mr. johnson? >> aye. >> mr. cain? >> no. >> mr. kennedy? mr. king? ms. klobuchar? >> no. >> mr. lankford? >> aye. >> mr. leahy? >> no. >> mr. lee? >> aye. >> mr. manchin? >> no. >> mr. markey? >> no. >> mr. mccain? mrs. mccaskill? >> no. >> mr. mcconnell? mr. menendez? >> no. >> mr. merkley? >> no. >> mr. moran? ms. murkowski? >> no. >> mr. mur

cassidy: i didn't even have a discouragement. the president very much once i replace with repeal. he said that over and over again. much wantsident very repeal.e with something similar to what senator collins and i propose -- you give the power back to the patient, power back to the state to rid she who controls the money typically has the power. if you return it to the state and to the patient, then she has the power, the patient has the power. how can we block grant. can we take all of these dollars and dispense it back to the with some guidelines provisions such as, for example you can use health savings accounts to pay for premiums which allows you to take insurance of their choice. andeasing competition getting the federal government out of micromanaging someone's insurance. we think that is a good approach and we are getting some traction. >> all right. let's start on the cost of fixing drugs. what role does congress have to play an increasing transferee -- transparency over drug prices? sen. cassidy: you are making a great case that lacked uptrend -- that lack of transparency is driving up rates. the insurance company gets it. when a patient has a deductible, she does not get the di

cassidy would sell the. >> yeah. i think this is a really interesting -- i might call it a fall back pro toes al depending on what happened next week. it was floused to senators collins cass dea few months ago and you would take the number whether they want to fin the blake regulations and ruls or do they want to go to a different direction. state innovation has always been promised on states doing what they think is best for their citizens. is he the idea of a federalist solution in health care i think is very attractive but we're not going to be able to get there until we get past this debate first. >> i want to pick up a point that you made on plit u so much of this unfortunately is brants if you rook at every one of trump's swede, this is what i want for heck, this is what i want for the people of this country. it's killed obamacare. there's a little branding. >> if you take blake away, maybe not prm that is if dh. >> it's experiences but my point would be we need to share that and make it better as opposed to destroy it. >> i think done be maybe that can be the democratic concession to republicans is to the at least give it a new name, just make changes to it, c

here they were: cassidy, alexander, collins, corker, cotton, hatch, isakson, moran, mccain, murkowski, paul. well, i would tell those colleagues and all the others, the idea hasn't magically gotten better with age. it is still nothing more than a cut-and-run approach to health care that will leave millions of americans out in the cold and raise costs on everyone, the young, the old, the sick, the healthy, working americans and middle-class families. everyone will be hurt but the very, very wealthy. mr. president, every day that republicans spend on trying to pass their now-failed partisan trumpcare bill, every day they spend cooking up new tricks to bully their members to get on a health care bill is another day wasted. another day that could have been spent working on real improvements to our health care system. democrats want to work with our colleagues on the republican side to stabilize the marketplaces and improve the cost and quality of care. and we want to do it via regular order, a process this body has used time and time again to produce consensus bipartisan, historic legisla

cassidy of louisiana. since she has been back in the state, senator collins does not do a lot of town halls. but she participated in a parade, a very well-known parade here in maine over the weekend was notuly 4 holiday, i there because unfortunately we had a state government shutdown at the time we were all covering , but from all the reports that we have seen and from what senator collins said, she said that people were really encouraging her to stand her ground against the health care bill, and were thanking her for her position and her criticism of it so far. host: and the editorial board for the portland press herald, senate: should fight health-care bill -- senator collins should fight the health-care bill, standing her ground. what exact changes is she asking for in order to be a guess vote? -- yes vote? guest: her big concerns right now seem to be focused a lot on the impact to medicaid, the cuts and the spending caps. maine is a rural state and we are also an old state. speaking how we are the oldest state in the country. about one in five main residence had on medicaid or their ins