runway. he had been trying to run away from that. the first four debates, he was pretending he no longer supported his own bill. explicit about this. how would he get those 12 million out of the country? because, listen, senator rubio s campaign, they re concerned and conservatives united behind our campaign. they re trying to confuse everyone. senator rubio supports amnesty. i oppose. he supports citizenship. i oppose. he supports legalization. i oppose it. senator rubio joined chuck schumer to fight with the of eight. i joined steve king and we defeated the gang of eight. we ll get to. we ll discuss the amendment you made, but tell me, back to this, i don t have the answer. how are you going to get 12 million people out of the country? you enforce the law.
cared about those here illegally. i got that. they didn t claim it was citizenship. look, this was a fight to defeat. not about citizenship. take it off the table. it is calling their bluff because what it did is revealed hypocrisy. i used the language of the democrats who were pushing it. they claimed. got it. it reveal ts what it was about was partisan politics. the politically correct terms, it s undocumented democrats. here s what yes or no on this. you supported this amendment. you pushed it. yes. that s the first thing. the second is thing is is that you re now saying to me is it was part of a strategy. is that right? of course it was. i m just hearing that now. why in the days and weeks and
months after june 4th, 2013, did it never come up this was a poisoned pill? it came up over and over and over again. chuck schumer said he knew it was a poison pill n. the last 24 hours, sessions has said ted the right and marco s not telling the truth. lee has come out and rush limbaugh has said ted is right, marco s not telling the truth. look, i understand that the washington establishment is in panic. because conservatives are uniting behind our campaign and so, what marco i m not worried about senator rubio or the washington i m trying to understand this and just so i is that you want this amendment to be part of the bill because poison pill. what did my amendment say? no citizenship. right. didn t say a word about legalization. well you and i read this letter differently. you can read the amendment. it says no citizenship.
senator mike lee that will deal with insurers, allowing insurers to offer plan that is do not fall under the regulations of the affordable care act. this is a key provision they were looking for. there s talk a version of the cruz amendment will appear. mike lee from utah tweeting he has not seen the bill, but the one he and ted cruz wrote will not be in the bill. some version of it, but he doesn t know if he can support it. a very small margin for error if republicans want to get it pass zed. it has been since the beginning. the devil is in the details. we are watch thag closely. it s happening this hour. now to the new, new alternative we can call it. dana bash has more on this. dana, lindsey graham, bill kassidy, they think they have the collusion and can thread the needle. what do we know about what they
disaggregate the insurance markets the biggest losers are older working adults, in the 20 years before roughly before they re eligible for medicare. two-thirds of all americans 45 to 64 are white and three-fifths of thoet those white americans vote republican. look it s a the work the kaiser family foundation has done, 50, 60-year-oldses, $30,000 $4,00,0, all facing higher premiums even before the cruz amendment and after the cruz amendment, might be unaffordable at any price. 90% of the head nodding. go ahead, jonathan. i feel it s a classroom and i can raise my hand or something. look, stephen has sensible points and buries them in a barrage of lies. 90% of americans, give me a break, stephen, 80% of americans aren t affected by obamacare. we re talking about a small slice of americans. but within that small slice of americans, a meaningful slice, it s millions.