senators are finding it out now, behind closed doors. an important briefing at that. we know what s in the draft bill according to sources to this point will make some people happy on issues if you re a moderate senator caring about the medicaid expansion a longer phaseout process than in the house bile. a conservative senator with medicaid spending to slow dramatically, you ll get something for that as well. conservatives who care about obamacare regulations. what you saw from the house bill, the waiver process, will not be in this draft but they ll give another waiver process that already exists in the aca more flexibility for states to get out of certain types of regulations. will that make them happy? it s up in the air. a year of defunding for planned parenthood. abortion, a huge issue as well. they re learning that behind closed doors and crucial over the next five, six hours, once senators digest this and their staff digests it, where do they sit? happy with it, out altogether?
and i think mitch mcconnell should put it up for a vote, no matter what the whip count says, get them on the record and force people to take a stand. it you re a republican and you ve campaigned the last seven years to get rid of obamacare, are you going to vote against this senate bill now? it s up to you. and perry, m.j. sitting next to me noting one. things mitch mcconnell has done compares ton the house bill as opposed to a comparison to obamacare making it easier for isn t senators voting? it appears the text critics are changed in a way to make them a little more generous. people lower income. so in that way my guess is the cbo score next week will show fewer people are uninsured and my guess what i ve seen so far. i would watch for nevada senator dean hiller. he s a member who s in a state hillary clinton won. this bill is pretty unpopular in the state.
closed doors in just a few minutes to learn the details of the republicanhealth care bill in the senate. that bill needs 52 republican members to pass. not at all clear if it will get that number. joining me now, though is a democrat who is very involved in this discussion. ed markie, the commonwealth of massachusetts. senator, thank you so much for being with us. appreciate it. we ve learned some details of the republican bill. the republicanless learn about it in a few minutes. it will phase out medicaid expansion more slowly than the house version. tie subsidies to income, not age. and we are just learning that the community rating,s that the part of it that guarantees people with pre-existing conditions the same rates, they re going to allow that to be protected in a way the house bill wasn t. my question to you does this senate version as you re learning tab have more heart, as the president would say, than the house version? this plan, if you kicked it
license plate tags on it. so they re piecing this all together. but the big problem is that this appears to be a random act. there seems to be no connection between stevens and olympian godwin, the 74-year-old man murdered on the street yesterday. that makes it more complicated. most homicides happen between people who know each other. there appears to be no connection between these two individuals. stevens is on the run. you have an all-out manhunt for him and it seemed to be expanding to pennsylvania is, indiana, new york and beyond as time goes by. ron allen, thank you. on watch this cleveland. coming up, home come. a raucous town hall in nevada for senator dean hiller next on andrea mitchell reports. he s hiding a card!
white house should ask before they go in perhaps. whether it s a good idea. the idea that you re present together president which was what the title of the book came from is that if you wanted president obama to do something and it ended up on his schedule or he ended up somewhere in the country, if he said who thought this was a good idea, one of us would stand up and say why we did. at the same time, some of the president s strongest supporters like senator dean hiller in nevada are discovering that going home for the recess, the work period that whatever you want to call it, spring break is fraught with challenges when you have a town hall meeting. this is what happened in reno, nevada, within the last hour or so whether he there were a lot of questions raised about some of the trump policies. let me be very clear with everybody in here. when i think trump is right, i ll support him. when i don t, i won t. and i am not [ shouting ]