we re not doing that. that s something separate that the administration does. reporter: last night, lawmakers unveiled an amendment from tom mcarthur, and mark meadows. when asked by fox if it had the votes to pass the house, ryan expressed support. we want to give the states to customize the reforms to lower premiums and protect preexisting conditions, that s exactly at the hart of what the mcarthur amendment does. reporter: the freedom caucus backed the plan, saying while the revised version does not repeal obama care, we are prepared to support it, to keep our promise to the american people to lower health care costs. but the concern for gop leadership is winning over conservatives could use moderate whose are also needed to pass the bill. my concern is what will happen to seniors, allowing insurance companies to charge seniors five times as much. it wasn t addressed in any of this. reporter: some democrats are suggesting changes to health care reform won t fit senate
off the airline got a big settlement. it is a system failure across the board, a circumstance like we ve all witnessed should have never happened. and tonight democrats slamming the gop for being in a lose, lose, lose situation on health care. does speaker ryan have the votes? we will talk to a new member of the power broker in washington, the freedom caucus. also what is behind the president s big change of heart when it comes to mexico and canada? and you will hear from first daughter ivanka trump and jean nor of jord on on the issue of refugees right here. how your clothes smell can say at lot about you.
i m glad to hear that. now, this high risk pool, i ve seen numbers 120 to $130 billion. where is that money coming from? well, it s coming from the federal government. i ve been told a number is $115 billion over ten years, but it s to help, you know, what we re trying to do is get lower premiums to the individual person, more choice through a market approach where different companies compete for your business and the kind of coverage that you actually want. all right. i ll go with your number, 115 billion. let me go back to where do we get the money? i mean, we have maybe a government shutting down tomorrow night. we have a bigger budget for the defense department coming down. i mean, we ve got the wall floating out there someplace. everyone is looking for money from something. you re the freedom caucus that is hawkish on spending. right. are you are you satisfied
one of them i think is a real contrast to president obama, his relationship with the senate so far. which is that he is willing to do business. he is willing to have them over, have people to dinner and the like. you are just heard for example, one of his former rivals, marco rubio, talking about a great dinner he had with the president and first lady at the white house. that s part of the difference. i also think the senators, especially people who were hyper critical, anti-republican establishment candidate, are pleased by a number of people that he has put in place, including secretary of defense, mattis, and also people at the national security council. they ve had trust in him. that s what was reflected in the meeti meeting on korea today. bret: the freedom caucus is signing on to this new repeal and replace effort on health care. it seems like it is still a lot of juggling for republicans in the house, but they may be
we re not doing that. that s something separate that the administration does. reporter: last night, lawmakers unveiled an amendment from tom mcarthur, and mark meadows. when asked by fox if it had the votes to pass the house, ryan expressed support. we want to give the states to customize the reforms to lower premiums and protect preexisting conditions, that s exactly at the hart of what the mcarthur amendment does. reporter: the freedom caucus backed the plan, saying while the revised version does not repeal obama care, we are prepared to support it, to keep our promise to the american people to lower health care costs. but the concern for gop leadership is winning over conservatives could use moderate whose are also needed to pass the bill. my concern is what will happen to seniors, allowing insurance companies to charge seniors five times as much. it wasn t addressed in any of this. reporter: some democrats are suggesting changes to health care reform won t fit senate