sponsors, republican senator ron johnson. good morning, senator. good morning, alisyn. how are you doing? i m doing well. let s pull up for our viewers what is in your bill. it would repeal the obamacare mandates, eliminate the obamacare subsidies, eliminate medicare expansion, loosen protections for existing conditions, it would repeal a handful of taxes and it would defund planned parenthood. what makes this bill, do you think, different than all the other ones that have come before? and why would this one be able to pass? primarily it s taking all the obamacare funding and turning those into grants and sending those out to states in a more equitiable fashion. three states, california, new york and massachusetts, they represent a little more than 20% of the population yet they get about 36% of all obamacare funding. it s simply unfair. wisconsin, very innovatively
short-term market stabilization, medicaid growth rate as well as the medicaid expansion funding. you ve got obamacare funding. taxes. abortion and all of those things taken together that senators republican senators have no idea where it is going. they also don t know the congressional budget office score and that is going to be critical in trying to explain what is the cost of all of this to the voters. john? all right, suzanne malveaux on capitol hill where we could be within 24 hours of knowing the secret of the senate health care. joining me now, republican congressman, leonard lance. you were a no vote on the house bill. my question to you this morning is, do you like what you see in the senate bill? i haven t seen the senate bill, john. and of course, i hope that it is unveiled as quickly as possible and that the senate will have time to review the work product. kind of a problem that you haven t seen it.
beating in public opinion polls. so why if democrats were threatening to shut it down over the border wall, why would the president not welcome the consequence beatings democrats might take in the polls? it s important to remember, yes, there s a government shut down in 2013. republicans were hammered for doing so and demolished the democrats in 2014. that s not the case that that decision hurt them in the polls. that said, i don t think it s a clear cut case here where the democrats would be blamed. democrats recognize the republicans control the house and the senate under that 60-person margin and they control the white house. so yes, this is a fight that looks like trump is backing away from but it s important to know that it s a fight he picked. he decided to try to introduce this idea. we heard the rumbles that he would ask for border wall security funding for obamacare
very agitated with this kind of coverage. they say al shabaab does not speak for them, they have been driven from this community and they re americans first and foremost and their future is here. i hope they re right. martin, thank you. do i even need to say it? i know i don t, but here it goes. we are six days away from a government shutdown. senator ted cruz continues to sound the call for fellow republicans to join in his filibuster, preventing senate democrats from stripping the house bill of language that would cut obamacare funding. not everyone in the republican party is standing by cruz s side. chief congressional correspondent dana bash talked with cruz. she s live on capitol hill this morning. good morning, dana. reporter: good morning, carol. that is an understatement, that not everybody in ted cruz s party is on his side. that is not a new phenomenon for
as you mentioned time is running out, bill. bill: mike emanuel on the hill. martha has more. martha: let s bring in brit hume, fox news senior political analyst who joins us from washington. good morning to you. good morning, martha. martha: we heard mike s setup there. what do you think will happen in the senate? what i imagine the bill will come over from the house with the obamacare funding stripped out of it and senators will all likelihood after delaying tactics, ted cruz and others may try to stall, try to force the senate to use 60 votes with anything on the bill. in order to do that they will be filibustering the very bill they would like to be passed which is peculiar position to be in. i think it s a fair assumption the senate will pass a bill with obamacare funding restored and send it back to the house. that ask when the speaker and team over there face a choice. if they bring the bill up on the house floor in that condition with obamacare funding restored and combinati