. >> let's now bring in steven brill, author of "new york times" best-seller "america's bitter pill. -- congress has an impossible job, because they're trying to figure out a way to pay for a system which is probably something you can't pay for, $3 trillion and continuing to grow. have you been able to identify in your research why we spend so much money on health care, compared to everybody else >> sure. sure congress doesn't have an impossible job they're just doing the wrong cob as toby cosgrove pointed out they're fog can yous on the cost of health insurance premiums, and premiums cost so much, because the health insurers, just like you and me, have to pay for the high cost of drugs and the high cost of hospital stays. why is that cost so high because in the united states we tried an experiment that no other country in the world tried. we decided that we're going to make health care a free market product. hospitals can charge everything they said and they -- so that the insurance company, if they have to negotiate with the yale new haven hospital in new haven, it's the only hospi

nbc's garrett haake, steven brill, thank you. howard and nicole will stay with me. >>> up next, president trump admits russia interfeefred in the election by pointing the finger at his predecessor for failing to act. then this morning he accuses president obama of collusion. >>> first, as we have just talked about, the senate health care bill faces an uphill battle. but john olver warned viewers not to believe the bill is doa. >> it's dead on arrival. kick back and relax, everyone, because i haven't felt this confident about an outcome since tuesday, november the 8th, 2016. so, your new prescription does have a few side effects. oh, like what? ♪ you're gonna have dizziness, ♪ nausea, and sweaty eyelids. ♪ and in certain cases chronic flatulence. ♪ no. ♪ sooooo gassy girl. ♪ so gassy. if you're boyz ii men, you make anything sound good. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it's what you do. next! ♪ next! if you have postmenopausal osteoporosis and a high risk for frac