the latest on the senate's healthcare hail mary. phil mattingly has that for us. >> as the senate plows toward a vote to repeal obamacare, president trump is unequivocal tweeting, i would not sign graham/cassidy. it did not include coverage of pre-existing conditions. it does. >> more people would have coverage and we protect those with pre-existing conditions. >> reporter: trump's defensiveness over the issue is understandable. the issue of whether the gop proposal maintains protections for all has been a central and toxic piece of the repeal debate for months. and one that has been magnified exponentially by, of all people, a late-night talk show host on a two-night attack. >> so last night on our show, i -- a senator from louisiana, bill cassidy. i took him to task for promising to my face that he would oppose any healthcare plan that allowed insurance companies to turn people with pre-existing conditions away. and he said anything he supported would have to pass what he named the jimmy kimmel test. which was fine. it was good. you about unfortunately and puzzlingly he proposed

said she'll vote no. phil mattingly joins us from capitol hill. what do we know about what got collins to "no"? >> the interesting thing about collins throughout the health care debate, anderson, it's never been a secret what her priorities were. after he voted tonight and put out the statement opposing the bill, she made very clear it was the fact they were overhauling the medicaid program without a significant number of hearings or a deep look into why they were actually doing it. when it came to the actual graham/cassidy proposal itself, even though there was an effort to set maine in a better place, she made the point, just because you can do this in a partisan fashion now, what's going to keep it going a couple years from you from now? preexisting conditions has been a concern for her. this bill goes pretty far in giving the leeway to cut way back on medicaid. it underscores inside the republican conference, as has been the case for the last nine months, ideologically they are not unified right now. >> senator graham spoke tonight, what does he have to say? does he believe

everyone is so optimistic. cnn's phil mattingly has more. >>reporter: when it comes to the future of repeal and replace, it's very much so up in the air right now. obviously republican leaders want to have that vote next week. they have to have that vote if they want to be able to move forward on this. the big question is will they ever get the votes? you break down who is actually in play right now and everybody comes back to the same two people. murkowski of alaska and joskbr mccain. we've asked senator mccain a couple times he says that's not regular order. i want more than that. of note, lindsey graham, working on him. the other person, lisa murkowski. i spoke to her early on. she said i'm not going to be bought off. i if she sticks to that policy going forward, it's going to be tough to see her get to yes. but, she's back in alaska. i'm told the trump administration officials have been reaching out to her repeatedly making sure she knows they're available at all times. i can also tell you on capitol hill we're seeing a series of draft proposals going back and forth about ways

priority would be that. phil. >> sarah, you're talking about a comprehensive immigration fix from congress in a span of six months. i'm not sure the president's frustration, congress hansn't been able to do much at all this year. what gives him confidence they're going to be able to act on immigration? has he spoken to any congressional members. >> he's spoken to a number of leaders. they just came back from a three-week vacation. i think they should be rested and ready to take on some big challenges that america faces. >> why would the -- >> it's congress's job to legislate. it's not the president's job to create law. it's not -- it's congress's job to create legislation. i think that's something we all learned in 8th grade civics. i know i certainly did and i think that every member of congress should know that is their duty and we're asking them to fulfill it. it's pretty simple. i think that the american people elected them to do it and if they can't, they should get out of the way and let somebody else take their job that can actually get something done. >> what consideration are you

phil mattingly join us from the capital. phil if they had the vote they would have won't the vote right ? >> yes. there's one kind of tried and true clear reality, when you have the votes you put something on the floor and vote on it. it wasn't going to take multiple days to get this on the floor. they made very clear, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, lindsay gram, the coauthors of this bill as of yesterday they did not have the votes. the same today, the votes are still no votes. at this moment, anderson they don't have the votes. they might in the future it could be possible. at this moment they don't have the votes. >> and the comments about senator croochran didn't he say he'd come in to vote if need be? >> in talking to everybody at the senior levels in the course of five days leading to this all falling apart yesterday, not a single person mentioned senator cochran's name or his health issue. we saw three public no, votes. i'm told from several gop aids when they took an internal whether i happen count and got a sense of where their 52 members are, there were several

weir made his way to san juan and now live, phil, you met up with celebrity chef doing what he can to help victims. >> reporter: yeah, this is the moment when so many people are trying to just engage in some action, something, as the frustrations over the federal response boil over. i got a twitter message last night from one of the most famous chefs in the world who said hey, i'm feeding 5,000 people tomorrow in one of the poorer neighborhoods of san juan. so i want to check it out. >> ci. >> reporter: happier times he'd be barking orders at sue chefs from spain to beverly hills. but today, jose andres is one of the poorest neighborhoods with volunteers from 8 to 80 working pans and sandwich assembly lines. all an urgent race to feed as many hungry puerto ricans as humanly possible. which is more satisfying to you as a chef? serving a gastro creation -- >> i always say that chefs like me, we love to feed a few, but i think we love even more feeding the many. >> reporter: he's become almost a fixture in disaster zones from haiti to harvey, but was most recently in the headlines for

we pulled it off, but it's amazing. >> phil matingly joining me to talk about this. phil, it seemed that when senator mccain came out, the writing was on the wall. now -- >> that started to spiral. i will note that mcconnell even though he was not enthused about trying health care again, they were trying to find new pathways and they revised the bill and make maine a little bit better, but susan colins and rand paul said he wouldn't come across the line. it's a math problem. they don't have the numbers. this is the case for the last nine months. 50 senators don't agree on what should happen with health care. >> will they takele it again some. >> this is never dead. the ability to go on to phoenix and rise from the ashes, i think everybody made clear it was the worst kept secret in washington that this would go down. whether or not they have a vote is up in the air. a lot of senators prefer not to have one and they don't want another failure. >> why does he say it's going too vote and let it fail? >> let's put everybody on the record. if we campaigned on this and you disagree, come v

susan collins, health insurers, all say it extent. so who is right, phil? >> president trump is not on the right side of this at least in one respect. the guarantee, one of the corner stones of obamacare that those with pre-existing conditions would not only are is access but also wouldn't phase increased prices because of their pre-existing conditions, that disappears with this bill. the bill does maintain the requirement that insurers provide plans to anybody with a pre-existing condition. here is where it gets a little bit complicated. it allows states to apply for waivers to get out of obamacare regulations. one of those regulations is the price protections for those with pre-existing conditions. now, in its place this bill says that states to obtain these waivers would have to be able to show that they would be able to give affordable and adequate care to individuals with pre-existing conditions. to those are two very ambiguous terms that aren't defined in this bill. when you talk to experts and insurers themselves, they make clear while not every state will opt out and some state

dispute with phil's math? this is nowhere, right? >> this is nowhere. i don't agree with what phil said. i always agree with what phil says. susan collins is not going to vote for this bill. she's waiting for this late afternoon announcement to get from the congressional budget office to get a preliminary analysis of the bill. that analysis, though, is not going to have the coverage numbers. it's not really going to get into the details about cuts to medicaid spending. it's only going to look at the basic deficit projections which probably would be favorable for the republicans, but it's not going to get into the nitty-gritty and what a lot of people want to hear, including what john mccain wants to hear. that's why john mccain is voting against it. i think you can probably expect other republican senators, perhaps collins, to point to that as well saying i need more information before i can vote for it. she's already skeptical about the way it was structured. perhaps lisa murkowski comes down the same way. it's interesting to hear trump touting how good this is for states. the only inf

first time ever, three former presidents on the opening hand of the presidents cup. phil mickelson getting the greatest selfie of all time right there with former presidents clinton, george w. bush, and barack obama. the only thing he could have done better there, chris, is just to frame it a little bit better. >> you have to take opportunity where you find out. i don't know that he beats ellen. >> three former presidents are not together very often. >> all right, my man. thank you very much. a heartbreaking scene is unfold anything puerto rico. that's just the truth. one aspect of it is people returning now to find their homes, to find family, and often finding nothing. we have a couple's emotional journey that you need to see to connect with what's happening on that island. please join us, next. when heartburn hits, fight back fast with tums smoothies. it starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue. and neutralizes stomach acid at the source. ♪ tum -tum -tum -tum smoothies! only from tums a trip back to the dthe doctor's office, mean just for a shot. but why go back th

in of that and phil, he was full of grievance about steph curry and about the nfl and continued to lash out over the weekend rather than deal with the issues at hand. he criticized john mccain, of course, for his decision to vote no and one thing i would say about this is you can't have it both ways. if people want an open process and they want to have more hearings, i get it, then let the hear pr hearing proceed. i completely -- >> we need to go to the white house for the latest briefing with sarah sanders. >> another busy day here at the white house. on the economic front this week the president will continue his push to secure tax relief for hard-working american families. we are pleased to announce that the president will be traveling to indianapolis, indiana, on wednesday. while there he will deliver remarks on the historic tax cuts and reforms that he has been, woing on with members of congress. during his remarks the president will discuss new details on the framework for these cuts and reforms. these details will include specific proposed rates for individuals, small busine

back in the people's house as he says for the first time since his shooting. with me david and phil mattingly, who are listening along in this powerful moment. phil, these are one of these moments that just give you chills and that it's a really important you were there to be able to witness it. just seeing steve scalise there and the powerful message he gave that he is a living example that miracles can really happen. >> look, you flashback three and a half months ago, kate, and how palpable it was that everybody was so shaken. nobody could believe the vulnerability. nobody could believe a targeted attack could occur. more importantly nobody knew if congressman scalise was going to be okay. there were several days and nights where it was very touch and go. the congressman referenced those. one of the interesting and best elements of what was an excellent return to the house floor, was pointing out david bailey, one of the capitol police officers along with crystal griner, in the audience, who saved his life, also pointing out his doctors at medstar who admitted made very clear had

representativesnd he could walk by the place you're looking at right now. to phil mattingly who joins us live from capitol hill. a very very emotional moment, phil. >> no question about it. think back three months ago particul particularly in the first couple days, things were very touch and go. staff didn't know how congressman scalise was going to end up. there were a lot of concerns about the depth of his injuries, the damage that had been done. they noted internal organs were hurt. you could look in a snippet from a "60 minutes" interview running on sunday, skungsman scalise -- congressman scalise said they needed to put me back together, that's how bad the damage was internally. no head's up he was coming back to the capitol but lawmakers have been waiting for the moment since the june shooting and interestingly enough, the fact that he's coming back at this time, very key time in the house as they look forward on legislative opportunities, i will tell you when lawmakers started to get the sense he was on the upswing and out of a bad place, was when he started participating in confe

. phil matingly, he issued a careful statement and they didn't think he changed the president's mind after hearing what the president said yesterday. >> look, i think you reiterated that and most interestingly, i caught up to him with another reporter after the comments were public. i ran into him and asked him what he thought. he made it clear he was pleased with the president throughout the meeting in the oval office and he said he heard him and he was clear that he didn't change his mind. i want to read what he said yesterday. that's who he is and who he has been. i didn't go in to change who he was. i wanted to inform and educate. i think we accomplished that and to assume that immediately there after he will have an epiphany is unrealistic. i think what caught me and speaking to them and senator scott well respected and well spoken in terms of what he is trying to say, not as scripted as the other senators, he was resigned to the reality of the president and the man he met with, but he still felt good about his efforts. i will note before he said that, he reiterated his point an

delicious day. with us to share insights julie herschfield davis, phil mattingly, bloomberg and elian na johnson of politico. is it just noise or should republicans be nervous their republican president maybe with the obamacare experience in the background saying that didn't work. i'm going to try this. >> i think jeff's right the notion they're going to all team up together and do a big deal on tax reform seems remote right now. it is interesting that trump is really going at this sort of threat to sort of cut republicans out of the process. and work with democrats instead because the dynamic they're facing on the hill with tax reform and so many other things is they want to try to do a republican deal that is all white house driven and driven by the republican leadership. if this he can't get to 51 or 52 votes, they have to do something else. part of the play is they want republicans to feel more pressure to get together as a coalition because they know if that doesn't happen, the president is all too willing to deal with nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. >> in talking to republ

the bills potential to get more people health insurance. so who's right? cnn phil mathingly is looking at the fine print. >> to repeal obamacare, president trump is unequivocal. tweeting, i would not sign graham-cassidy if it did not include coverage of preexisting conditions, it does. senator bill cassidy, the bill's co-sponsor also toeing the line. >> under graham-cassidy, more people without coverage, and we protect those with preexisting conditions. >> reporter: trump's defensiveness over the issue is understandable. the issue of whether the gop proposal maintains protections for all has been a central and toxic piece of the repeal debate for months. and one that has been magnified exponentially by of all people, late night talk show host on a two-night attack. >> last night on the show, a senator from louisiana, bill cassidy, i took him to task for promising to my face that he would oppose any health care plan that allowed insurance companies to turn people with preexisting conditions away, and he said anything he supported would have to pass what he named, the jimmy kimme

bill. cnn on capitol hill. phil, senator lindsey graham still saying this is not over. >> yeah, forever the optimistic. he was the reason why it was resurrected. but when you look at what they planned going forward cassidy tells it a little better. take a listen. >> we don't have the votes. speaking to the leadership and president, i think lindsey and he are on speed dial. we've made the decision since we don't have the votes we'll postpone that vote. >> and the stories actually quite familiar to the other iterations of this process we have seen fall apart before. at the moment republicans in the senate do not have 50 votes for any health care proposal. this he have not been able to bridge the divides between the conservatives who want to cutback further and the moderates. and as long as that exists while senator graham and cassidy say they continue to work and look for other vehicles that they can move forward, they don't have a path forward. and with that reality kind of facing everybody, senate majority mitch mcconnell made clear tax reform is next. that's what they are movi

congressional investigators and of course the mueller team as well. >> phil mudd, there's also, according to the new york times, a sense of paranoia among white house staffers, some believing that other staffers have been wired by the special counsel, robert mueller, to record conversations. how realistic do you think that is? >> these guys are squirming at the end of a hook, wolf, but they're squirming for the wrong reason. i think they're like their boss. they're watching too much tv. i would not be worried about wires. i'd be worried about other things. don jr., when he lied about his meeting with the russian lawyer, he initially claimed it was about immigration issues. turned out it was about hillary clinton. that wasn't a tire tap. that was an e-mail chain. these guys have to worry about years of e-mail records. they have to be worried about interviews. people on the prifrry of this conversation are going to tell them, don't lie to a federal investigator. finally, wolf, you got to worry about flips. if the fbi says you're going to be charged with a federal crime, that person has to be c

insights, mary katherine ham of the federalist, michael sheer of "the new york times," and cnn's phil mattingly. we begin with the president's war of words with some of america's best-known athletes. a fight that raises a question of free speech, of patriotism, and of race. >> this guy that we've put in charge has tried to divide us once again. and, obviously, we all know what happened with charlottesville and the divide that that caused. and now, it's even hitting more home for me now, because he's now using sports as the platform to try to divide us. >> now, this is hardly the first time this president has started a new fight, seemingly because he's losing an old one. and this one escalated quickly. it began friday night in alabama. the president was there to urge voters to turn out in a senate race on tuesday. but he got more animated voting -- venting, excuse me, about the silent protest a few african-american nfl players take part in on game day. >> wouldn't you love to see one of these nfl owners, when somebody disrespects our flag? to say, get that son of a [ bleep ] off the fi

whether or not you believe in it. >> with us is cnn's mallika henderson. phil matingly and mary cather e catherine. this has been your life for the past months. i felt bad on what appears to be awake. is there any way and i don't mean to make light of it. from health care to family budget to life and death decisions. it is a central promise of the republican party. this latest version is done. >> by all accounts. we have seen this happen over five or six months. iterations have phoenix-like properties and reappear, but the math is not there. it is a deeper issue and we discuss this a lot over the past couple of months. there are significant divides in the republican party about the meaning of health care and whether or not it's a right or whether or not it's something that should be provided. how medicaid should be treated and reformed. as long as that exists, it's not a huge divide. there is 46 republicans that will vote for anything that said obamacare repealed. because of political reasons and the policy reasons. until you can find that last four or five republicans to vote and addr

for be known as the republican who saved obamacare. cnn is on capitol hill for us. and phil,republicans can afford to lose two votes in the senate and still pass graham cassidy. where does the vote count stand right now? >> reporter: at least publicly mccain is out as no and rand paul out as a no. and susan collins saying she's leaning no. she has considered susan collins hard no throughout this process. just to quota gop aid iemt not breakingny news when i say this isn't good talking about senator mccain coming out as no vote. i want to get deeper into what he actually said. because jake as you remember quite well in july the senator came to the senate floor after his cancer diagnosis and gave a very lengthy speech in all of all of his colleagues castigating the senate for the way things have gone. he stayed true to that. saying quote i cannot in good conscious vote for this. i believe we can do now. democrats and republicans have not tried. nor can i support it not knowing how much it will cost and how many people will be hurt by it without a cbo full score that won't be a

house democrats and she shared chinese food and we hear phil mattingly, some chocolate pie, and that made for some potential dealmaking. >> apparently. a theme we've seen it the last two weeks. let ne give nuance to what the president was saying there based on my reporting on capitol hill. the broad parameters that were agreed to last night, essentially the tradeoff of pro pecting daca participants those that have enrolled in the daca program in exchange for a large border package is very real, something republican leaders were in the preliminary discussions on crafting here on capitol hill. here's what hasn't been agreed to. a final deal or any of the details related to the scope of those protections or the scope of the border security package. that is very important. that is crucial. it's worth noting republican leaders were completely caught off guard by what happened last night. i was texting with one top leadership aide when the statement from the democrats came out, essentially kind of saying there's a deal or the start of a deal. he said you know more than i do, we have no ide

jack object son a professor at georgetown university. welcome to the show. thank you, gentlemen. phil, you fist. this page had a huge outreach, more than 360,000 followers. your take on this cnn exclusive. >> my take are the american people are misinterpreting this and we're miss sperpting on this show, don. democrats will say look how much the election was influenced against hillary clinton. republicans will say this is over rated. donald trump won because of a wave of populism. step back for a moment. 2018, 200020/20. if you're a russian and you want to influence eastern europeans in terms of their attitudes about americans? what would you do. i'd do the same thing i say here. i would inundate them with information, sometimes junk information about america. if you're chinese, asian attitudes about america, what would you do? the same thing that was done in terms of these posts on black america. if you're a venezuelan who opposes america and you want to influence latin american attitudes, you want to invade the social media space. my point is very simple our conversation has to get o

clock in a big way. phil mattingly is on capitol hill following all of this and where this stands. graham cassidy, phil, the plan had been seen even when they rolled it out as a hail mary, acknowledged that this was the plan they thought had the best shot but it was a hail mary because discussions were elsewhere at the time. what's changed? does it have a shot now? >> that's exactly right. a hail mary would imply that they're on the field with a chance to throw the ball. nobody even thought they were getting on to the field with this proposal and that was as recently as early last week when not just top senate republican aides but senators were dismissing this as there wasn't enough time. wasn't a reality based proposal. maybe they like the policy but didn't think they could get it there. that's different. let me tell you the seeds of this came really because of two individuals, senator lindsey graham, senator bill cassidy who have been working member after member calling in to breitbart and cnn trying to do whatever they could to sell this plan. they saw some of that pay off last

win over any reluctant colleagues as they interrupted a senate health care on capitol hill. cnn phil lives me now. phil, where do things stand right now on the vote tally? >> reporter: just a short while ago i had a text not in a good place when i asked where things currently are. and you look where senators are and over the course of the days. you have firm nos in rand paul and susan collins yesterday told you on state of the union she could see herself unlikely voting for this bill. you have lisa murkowski from alaska very serious concerns. still undecided. now ted cruz conservative senators, saying what the changes that were made last night to try to get people on board, they don't get his support. mike lee as well on the regulatory side of things hasn't committed to a yes vote yet. it's important to look at the issues. they are not homogenous. you have people like murkowski on one side. cutting back on the obamacare care regulations, things like essential health benefits, price protections for pre-existing conditions, that is crucial on the state level in his view to driving down

correspondent phil mattingly. phil mattingly, what are republican leaders on the hill saying about all of this today? >> reporter: yeah, despite what we heard from senate minority leader chuck schumer, house minority leader nancy pelosi, paul ryan, the republican leader in the house saying there's not only no deal, there weren't even negotiations. these were discussions that occurred over dinner, chinese food, chocolate pie, brooke. very important to note there. very interesting to see. what democrats took coming out of that meeting is there is an agreement on the parameters of the deal. essentially how the protections of daca participants would be put in place and in exchange republicans would get a boost in the spending. the baseline for the protection of daca participants would be something called the d.r.e.a.m. act. it involves a pathway to citizenship. it's been a huge problem in the republican party for years. this is something i asked speaker ryan about. take a listen. >> did the president shed any light on what his preferences would be? and also do you think something like the

referring to is a report that i think phil would like very much that salve regina university has just put out entitled "shatter the house of mirrors." and what we're basically saying is you have to look beyond the 2016 election. there is a concerted effort by putin's government to divide the united states, to sow dissent, to create distrust of our own institutions. and all for the purpose of forcing the united states to be beleaguered about internal problems so we can't worry about what's happening all around the and of course that's to putin's advantage. what do i think of blacktivists in terms of what it means here. what this means is the russians understand that just like in the 1960s when they tried to fan the flames of stokely carmichael versus martin luther king debate, in other words, let's have a more violent sort of revolution here, let's not be peaceable, the russians are trying to do the same thing. they don't want to see peaceful dissent. they don't want to see a discussion and dialogue over what are real racial tensions. they want to fan the flames. and i know we're

phil. you have been talking to mccain over the last few days. you saw signs this was coming. >> when you look at what that not just to the kind of epic thumbs down at 2:00 in the morning but the speech that he made a few days before that, i think it was july 25th on his return after his cancer diagnosis, almost castigating washington and castigating congress for not doing its job he made pretty clear where he stood on this type of an issue. when this bill came back to life, when it became a very real thing -- and i will note it was very unexpected that kind of hit the bubble that it's had, i saw senator mccain probably three times a day until the senate left town. every time i saw him i would ask him, where are you right now? again, think of the outside dynamics here. he wanted to know what the arizona governor thought of this bill. he put out a statement saying he supported this bill. senate majority leader asked senate finance leader to hold a hearing explicitly to address senator mccain's concerns about process. it will get a fair airing. does that check the box, if you will? even

over. it's just really easy stuff. you're right, chris. >> right. >> i mean, april, listen, phil mattingly caught up with tim scott. this is his response. "that's what he is. it's who he has been. and i didn't go in there to change who he was. i wanted to inform and educate a different perspective. i think we accomplished that. and to assume that immediately thereafter he's going to have an epiphany is just unrealistic." well, say what you want. he could have reacted whatever. but it was a classy way of saying it. that's who he is. it's who he has been. is that the realization a lot of republicans are having now in washington? >> yes. it's the realization of many people, but it doesn't make it right. this is the sixth time this president has spoken to reporters or to the american people on charlottesville. he's back and forth, back and forth. and to once again double down on both sides and to say there were some really bad dudes on the other side, so i guess fighting for what's right makes you a bad dude. a lot of people are bad dudes. and interestingly enough, from my sources, w

he taks s the stage. so as we watch, that i want to bring in cnn's phil mattinglyt at the capital. what more are you learning absenator mccain's decision today? john, interestingly enough all you had the do is to lis own what the senator was saying, and where the senator could go and the great friends with lindsey graham, and the idea to repeal obamacare, but every time i have spoken to senator mccain, he has never wavered in the opinion that it was a wrong process, and just go back to july, and the senate floor speech just after he had been diagnosed with cancer, and he decried the direction that the senate had gone and the lack of bipartisanship, and he said i cannot in good consciousness vote for the graham/cassidy proposal and we do better working together as democrats and republicans and nor could i support it without knowing how much it costs and how it is fwo going to affect the insurance premiums, and how many people will be hurt by it, and everything that he had been telegraphing over to the course of the last couple of years. i am told that there was not much wavering de

greatest selfie of all times phil mickelson gating a selfie with the presidents. that's got to go on the mantle above the fireplace. >> he was one chin short of that being the greatest selfie of all time. there was a little head room. he had it. still, great stuff there. thank you andy. >> i wonder what they talked about. >> wouldn't you kill to know what the conversation was? >> shooting the braeeze. >> 26 minutes past the hour. health secretary tom price facing growing scrutiny over his travel. military flights overseas, we're told the president is not pleased. over cable for 17 years running. but some people still like cable. just like some people like banging their head on a low ceiling. drinking spoiled milk. camping in poison ivy. getting a papercut. and having their arm trapped in a vending machine. but for everyone else, there's directv. for #1 rated customer satisfaction over cable switch to directv. call 1-800-directv. you know win control? be this guy. check it out! self-appendectomy! oh, that's really attached. that's why i rent from national. where i get the control to c

weeks to release analysis. if senate republicans plan to act they have to move qukly. phil mattingly has more. >>reporter: the worou heard in the weeks leading up to last week were dead, buried, gone. mechanic we'll try it again next year or the year after. no longer standing that way. the effort right now is very real and serious on a very compressed timetable. considering a new proposal. they only have 11 days to do it. by september 30th, they need to get this done if they want to, under budget rulesby able to pass something with a simple majority vote. the big question now is what's in this proposal. what it would do is a dramatic shift in how the u.s. has health care. one sixth of the economy -- there are some similar elements, like ending the medicate expansion in 2020. instead of keeping a less generous version of the obamacare tax subsidies, this would take all of the revenue and put them in block grants for specific states. this is a very real effort to get this done at the last minute. wait and see over the next couple of days how this progresses a big meeting tuesday after.

darkness. let's go live to tokyo and bring in cnn's phil black. what do we know? >> reporter: dave, this was the second time in around two weeks that vast numbers of people in the country's north were woken by the sirens and text messages warning them to take shelter because a missile was in the air and had been fired by north korea. authorities here say they identified pretty quickly that this missile did not pose a direct threat to japanese they are territory but they were worried about falling debris. they say they've tracked the path and it was the same sort of intermediate missile fired around the end of august, but in in case, it went even further. it traveled more than 2,200 miles. and that is significant because the authorities here say if it hadn't been fired east and had perhaps been fired south, it would have land the very close to the u.s. territory of guam. that would have been an even greater provocation. that's something no one in the region wants to see because they believe it raises the possibility of military conflict. it makes it perhaps even more likely. the jap

. cnn congressional correspondent phil mattingly says president trump is pushing for this bill and claims it would cover pre-existing conditions, but that is not necessarily the case, right? >> reporter: a lot of concerns from wary senators and outside groups. when you dig deeper into the bill, doesn't necessarily hold up. as the senate plows toward a last second attempt to repeal obamacare next week, president trump is weighing in on twitter, trying to soothe skeptics in his own party. he tweeted, i would not sign graham/cassidy, did not include pre-existing conditions. it does. trump's defensiveness for people with coverage if they are already sick. it has been a central and toxic piece of the repeal debate for months and one that was magnified, again, overnight, by all people, jimmy kimmel, whose son was born with a heart defect. >> last night on our show, a senator from louisiana, bill cassidy, i took to task for promising to my face that he would oppose a plan that turn people with pre-existing conditions away. he said anything he passed would have to pass the jimmy kimmel tes

democrats, and he said mcconnell and ryan are onboard. phil, the word from you is not a deal yet but? >> something. it seems the best way for democrats to move forward on the policy priorities, just sit down with the president in person. we saw it with the fiscal deal last year and now seeing it with daca. what the specific parameters are, there will be daca protections that will be maintained for the 700,000 individuals registered with the program, and a border security package. what the details are on both of the issues are extremely important. on the top line, take a listen to what the president has to say about that meeting. >> we met last night with schumer, pelosi and a whole group. i think we are fairly close but we have to get massive border security. mitch is onboard, and paul ryan is onboard. we all feel 92% of the people agree on daca, but what we want is we want very, very powerful border security. >> poppy, one of the big questions now is even if some republicans are onboard, what about his base? this was an issue, as you know, he spoke throughout his campaign, and he sa