REP. TOM REED (R), CO-CHAIRMAN, PROBLEM SOLVERS CAUCUS: It's his ability and authority as the commander-in-chief to make those calls and I respect that.</s>JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: Skinny repeal. Those are the two words being discussed right now in the Senate. Maybe passing a version of health care that gets rid of mandate but doesn't touch anything else. Something you can get behind?</s>REED: Well, you know, I've got to see what the final Senate bill is. You know, obviously, I want to fix the problem when it comes to the individual marketplace. We're working across the aisle. There's 44 of us, 22 Dems, 22 Republicans, spent late last night working on this in detail. Focus should be right now, if we're not going to repeal and replace, we should stabilize the individual market because those are real Americans that did nothing to cause this problem on their laps. So we need to fix it for them.</s>BERMAN: Just to be clear, you know, some of those CBO numbers on that, as far as the individual market, it will increase premiums by some 20 percent and, you know, and 15 million people or so would be off the roll. So in terms of how we're addressing the individual market, the skinny repeal might not be the way to go. Congressman Tom Reed, in Newark, thanks so much for being with us. Appreciate it.</s>REED: Thanks. Thanks for having me on.</s>BERMAN: All right. We are waiting to hear from the White House chief of staff Reince Priebus. Will he respond to these charges from the communications director, seeming to accuse him of being a leaker? We have our eyes on the White House right now.</s>POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR: Plus, as we just discussed, caught off guard. CNN has learned the Joint Chiefs, well, they were not aware that the president was going to tweet this new policy on transgender service members. Reaction next from Senator Kirsten Gillibrand who calls the ban appalling.
Interview with Representative Tom Reed