that s collapsing rapidly. bill: in the meantime, you allow democrats to tee off on you. once we begin to let it happen, a small group of men and a back room can write a bill and move a through that affects every american and one sixth of the economy without a hearing, without knowledge, without members knowing what s in the bill, this country is in trouble. if that is the way we legislate. sounds like republicans from eight years ago, and a lot of the same criticism. one of the things we know is that we ve had seven or eight years to examine the failures of obamacare. you have the collapsing markets, a third of the counties in the country that have won are no options in the exchanges. premium spike in the last four years by 105% on average grade my state of south dakota, 124%. out-of-pocket costs are going to the rules for people in this country. as a failed system.
with the health care bill bill and the travel ban. mika brzezinski returned the insult, tweeting a cheerios box, with the tweet. bill: is there an upside and donald trump and going after reporters? this is his signature style. supporters loved it during the campaign. they still love his attacks on fake news. when a president talks about a woman s suppose in plastic surgery, the backlash creates the kind of distraction trump often accuses the media pushing to avoid substantive issues. bill: thank you. analysis with howard kurtz. want to get a health care where senate republicans were racing against the clock tonight. they returned from up with the new obamacare repeal and replace plan before the fourth of july holiday weekend. cheap congressional correspondent mike emanuel life back on the hill tonight to tell us where we are now.
we ve had an honest debate about different approaches and my focus has been on ensuring low income ohioans continue to receive care. g.o.p. sources say the most likely no votes are susan collins, dean heller, rand paul. the problem for leadership as they can only afford to go republican nos and pass the bill. we are at an impasse and i said that yesterday. everybody kind of laughed because there is still quite a bit of disagreement. it s two factions. there is been suggestion democrats are split. moderates like joe manchin of west virginia and heidi heitkamp of north dakota who say they re willing to discuss improvements to obamacare. more liberal members like elizabeth moran for messages it s an bernie sanders from vermont are calling for universal health care. congress would love to work to get health care for fix what s wrong.
it s hurting a lot of people. you d have to be very, very serious. and done a lot of talking, bad talking, and just doesn t seem like a serious person. is it moments like this, sometimes the bizarre thought becomes the reality in today s washington. is it possible that we will be seeing a bipartisan health care summit at the end of this or is that crazy talk? here s why i m skeptical. usually when these things are coming together, they both have each other s numbers. they don t have to communicate through the cameras. they re doing this, a bit of grandstanding on both sides. well, i mean, right now the gop is warning against bipartisan solution. but you don t get anywhere close to repeal. agree with democrats, conceding. we re fixing obamacare. automatically a loss for some republicans. that s actual lay threat made by leader mcconnell to members.
essentially about entitlement reform, the reason it s unpopular, the reason it s important is because it s going to be a huge it s going to have huge effect on the medicare increases. it s not a cut in medicare. it is bending the curve. a year and have to go to the midterms. after the failure of obamacare, if after seven years of pledging to reform this, the republican party cannot bring itself to pass what is probably a modest reform in the one entitlement that s completely out of contro control, expanded from just the poor which it still covers to four times people at the poverty level. it s a whole different entitlement. if it can t do that, we have no hope of reforming entitlements. we will never do it on the other ones and we as a country are in deep trouble because everyone knows from obama and all the liberals on down, they all know it s unsustainable. it s only a question of when we