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Trying to make logical sense of Beck is tilting at windmills, man.

Yet Trump supporters eat up... this.

WALLACE: Mr. Trump, question: do you support the individual mandate on Obamacare or not?
TRUMP: Right. Let me explain to you. First of all, I don't want mandates for anything. I want people to get. I don't want people dying in the streets.
I was actually talking over Anderson Cooper, who I thought it was a great interview and he's a great interviewer. But I was talking over him. He was talking at the same time. He mentioned the word "mandate," and I was talking about something else, to be honest with you. It doesn't matter. It's not a very complicated -
WALLACE: But, wait, you said "I like the mandate".
TRUMP: I like - I want people to be covered that cannot afford to be covered that are - I don't want people dying in the streets. That's not mandate. That's me. That's having a heart.
I don't want people dying in the streets. I don't want people to have no health care whatsoever and they're in the middle of the street dying. And I talk about it all the time.
And you know what? When I give these speeches where I have 10,000 and 15,000 and 20,000 people and I talk as a Republican, as a conservative Republican, and I talk about that and I say, "I don't want people dying because they have no money," I get standing ovations.
You know, the Republicans are not bad people. I get standing ovations. So, I think it's very important. I'm not going to have people dying in the street if I'm president. I can tell you that. You can call it whatever you want.

On "Meet the Press":

DONALD TRUMP: Well, on the mandate, if you look at the mandate, we had a situation where we were, Anderson Cooper, who's terrific, by the way, and did a terrific job, but we were talking over each other. Look, I want, we're going to repeal and replace Obamacare. Obamacare is a total and complete disaster. It's going to be gone. We're going to come up with a great healthcare plan, whether it's healthcare savings accounts, we have a lot of different things. We're going to get rid of the lines between states, we're going to have great competitive bidding. But I say all the time, you can call it anything you want. People are not going to die in the middle of the street. People are not going to die on the sidewalk if I'm president, okay?
CHUCK TODD: Well, let me get something definitive from you on this.
DONALD TRUMP: But Chuck, I say that, excuse me, I say that to packed houses with thousands and thousands of people, Republicans mostly, and I get standing ovations. I'm not going to let that happen. If I'm president, we're not going to have people dying on the streets. So you can call it whatever you want. I don't call it a mandate, I just say it's common sense.
CHUCK TODD: No, I understand that. Well, let me ask you this. Do you think that it should be a law that anybody who can afford health insurance has to have it?
DONALD TRUMP: I think, no, I think it's going to be up to them, okay? I want it to be up to them. But I'm really talking about people that can't afford it. We're not going to let people die in squalor because we are Republicans, okay? That's part of the problem with the Republicans, where somehow they got fed into this horrible position. We're going to take care of people. But no, people don't have to have it. We're going to have great plans, they're going to be a lot less expensive than Obamacare. They're going to be private. There are going to be lots of different options. We're going to have a lot of different options. Right now you have no options. You know why? Because the insurance company controlled Obama because they gave him a lot of money. That's why you have lines around the states. And you can't get competitive bidding.

Trump will do something about stuff, and it will be great.