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Yelling the p word on tv. no one tweeted out and said you have early onset dementia. to describe someone that way is incredibly unfair. i also think that honestly you re a lot better than that. oh a kay but before we get i mean i just curious, what did you think his speech last night was okay? i thought it was a classic campaign rally speech that we ve been seeing now for what? a year, over a year? can but he s the president. the. you campaign when you re the president. right but one more thing. by definition a campaign is divisi divisive. as president you re supposed to be uniting the country. did you feel the speech was unifi unified. i don t think every speech he gives has to be quote a unified speech. the i can get you thousands of examples where barack obama was not unifying trying toe pass obamacare. did anyone say he was unhinged or has early onset dementia? ....
That they say nonessential employees don t show up. how demoralizing is that when you realize i m not essential. great, i don t have to go work. brian: president trump is realizing right now he can never call in sick. he lives in his work place. all he has he to do is go downstairs. he does not take a sick day today. meanwhile the white house firing back at the budget report that came out yesterday estimating that millions of people will lose healthcare coverage under the g.o.p. plan. ainsley: but the report also shows the obamacare replacement would reduce the federal deficit by more than $300 billion. brian what do we believe? steve: there is some good news. there s some bad news. right, ed henry. ed: exactly. the last part could win over wavering conservatives to the president s side no. question this cbo report was a blow to the president s efforts in the short-term because it suggests that a whole bunch of people are going to be knocked off their insurance. something we knew even ....
Nobody has an exact score. dr. tom price the secretary of health and human services pointed out there are whole sections of this bill they didn t score. so i really do think it s disgusting. i m really disappointed that the republicans have not abolished the congressional budget office because it is so profoundly dishonest. brian bribe the guy in charge was approved by tom price and his committee and was appointed during the years when bush was in office. so maybe it s just hard to in 2014 they came out and said we have begun to we are going to stop looking at obamacare. it is now impossible by the numbers that are coming out to score it. so they said we throw up our hands. that was in 2014. that was the story in the hill. steve: back in the day they estimated, the cbo estimated 23 million americans would have healthcare through the affordable care act by 2017 right now. 23 million. do you know how many there are? 9.3. so they were way off. brian: we have the director of ....
Deductible at my house was between 12,000 and $15,000 a year. okay. so there is folks making a lot less money i was on that exact same plan. they could afford to have the coverage because they got a subsidy for the premium. but when they got sick they could not go to the doctor. that s twheant to change. and that s what they re looking for. the politics, look, at the end of the day, have you to assume that good policy is good politics. and republican bill is good policy. ainsley: here is something that struck me that i was shocked with if you are an individual that makes $26,500. your it goes down for you. your premium goes down if you are 21 years old. goes up a little if you are 40. if you are 64 years old, that s when you are going to need healthcare. your premium right now under obamacare is 1700. it s going to go up to almost 15,000. that s almost half these folk s salary they can t afford that. we saw some of these numbers yesterday from the ceo is going to come down. near te ....
steve a number of years ago the architect of obamacare called the has actually called the new g.o.p. he he plan a scam. remember this he once scammed toe pass obamacare. this bill was written in a tortured way to make sure the cbo didn t score the mandate as taxes. if they scored it as taxes it dies. it is a huge political advantage. basically call it the stupidity of the american voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical to getting this thing to pass. steve: okay. critical to get it pass. joining us with his reaction. president of the american action forum douglass eakin. good morning, douglass. good morning, how are you? steve: doing okay. i was shorkd when i first heard jonathan gruber say that essentially they pulled the wool over everybody s eyes to get this thing pass-to-pass. ....