procedural vote is, majority leader mitch mcconnell could only afford to lose two senators, and the president is pushing members not to be the vote that shuts this whole thing down. so, let's go to dana bash, our cnn chief political correspondent there on capitol hill. first things first, do we even know what they are voting on? >> reporter: well, in the short-term, the answer is yes. they're voting on, as you said, at the beginning of this show, they're voting on whether or not even to proceed with debate. and just sort of by way of context, this is usually a no-brainer, easy vote for members of whatever party it is who's generally in the majority or who are putting a piece of legislation on the floor. not about whether or not an amendment should pass, not about whether the final piece of legislation should pass. this is just about whether debate should start, and this is what they have been kind of toing and froing about for weeks and weeks even if they could get this vote over the hump of 50 votes, 50 republican senators. that's what they need and as we've said many, many times,

leader mitch mcconnell was forced to acknowledge defeat placemat -- late last night. a newell began pushing plan to repeal the affordable care act with a two-year transition period. we will talk about all of this today on "washington journal." democrats can call in at 202-748-8000. republicans, call in at 202-748-8001. independents, 202-748-8002 and you can catch up with us on social media on twitter it is @cspanwj. the two key senators that came out against legislation last night, mike lee, republican of utah. jerry moran, republican of kansas. considered anally ally of senate republican leadership. a key moment was 8:30 last night they both sent statements with the exact same wording. here is mike lee "my colleague and i will not support the motion to proceed on this version of the better care reconciliation act." jerry moran with the exact same wording also at 8:30 with those two announcements, republicans all of a sudden had 4 votes shy of what they needed. they had lost four republicans already rand paul of kentucky, susan collins of maine also announcing opposition. republican

go forward with it. you heard some of it in mitch mcconnell's voice when all the votes were counted. this is a stinging defeat for republicans. there is no other way to replace it. >> and mitch mcconnell didn't mince words about it. he turned to the republican conference in the senate and addressed them exclusively and he said this is now over. he said it is now time to look to the democrats to see what their solution is, lawrence o'donnell joins me on the phone, and you heard the first strains of this, lawrence, they want european style health care, socialized medicine. there was no conciliation in his tone, he said he sees it as a failure and that democrats don't have a better solution. >> well, the other word for what he was describing, ali, as you know, is medicaid. which is the system that mitch mcconnell is on himself, it is a federal government system. a single payer system. we throw around a lot of terms that i think are not that clear to a general audience, single payer, things like that. we should always just use the word medicare, because that is what it is. and if the un

jam. >> bill: you can really feel him putting the pressure on. to me that puts mitch mcconnell leadership in question. >> melissa: erick erickson said something similar, listen to how he reacts. >> wears tax reform, it goes to the senate and all of the sudden it dies. the way they structured obamacare repeal, they only needed 50 votes plus the president. they can even get that done. >> melissa: is mcconnell in jeopardy? >> i don't think he is and i don't agree with his analysis. the votes are not there. mcconnell may not be the leader you want, but he doesn't get to choose who is in the senate, the voters choose that. you have a couple republican senators who have been campaigning on repealing obamacare. you can find the speeches in the past. and then all of a sudden, it's time to repeal it, and suddenly there against it. that's the problem here. to say is mcconnell is pretending he is the one who decides who is in the senate. >> melissa: what do you think happens here especially after calling out those senators? >> to be clear, the person to blame and the people to blame are the leaders

mitch mcconnell know what will happen? i put this to a communications advisor who frequently consults with the white house. win.want some type of they feel that for weeks, they have not been able to get one. this will hopefully take away the toxicity of the moderates who have come under -- whoseg pressure estates would be very much affected with regards to medicare and medicaid cuts. --o some olexander ding someone like senator dean heller. this is far from over. we should also note that on a day in which the biggest policy battle of this administration is happening, the president is tweeting pressure against his own attorney general, jeff sessions. i want to let viewers know that we are waiting for the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell to speak following the usual tuesday lunch. we will bring you that when he makes some comments. you are laying out all the afferent challenges here -- win needed for the administration here. i don't see any avenue here that looks like a win. a repeal or repeal and replace -- reconciliation is meant to be a partisan deal -- you need bipartisan supp

, you heard background noise when mitch mcconnell tried to talk about that. >> talking about -- heather: what is next? >> the defense bill was objected to, there was a procedural vote monday evening on some nominations. mitch mcconnell said they would keep the senate in session for the first two week of the schedule recessed to deal with nominations and to have an agreement to move to the defense bill. todd: gop leaders back to the drawing board. heather: democrats are celebrating, at the nation's capital with what happens next. >> reporter: we heard chad talking about what happened next but we will talk about what happened immediately after republicans failed on that 7-year promise, the president took to twitter tweeting three republicans and four americans led the american people down. let obamacare implode, then deal. watch. the republicans are going to work with democrats if they are going to make any progress overhauling the healthcare system, mitch mcconnell, the majority leader, time to move on and let's hear what democrats have to offer. >> it was the right thing for

starts to speak as the senate, meanwhile, starts over. an annoyed mitch mcconnell making his members walk the plank after they killed his bill. something that seemed to surprise president trump which is repealing for now. something the gop didn't want in the first place. highly unlikely. so, we'll talk about what happens next and what it means for your health care with the uncertainty powering what may be a roller coaster ride when it comes to how much you pay and what you get. our political team is on the hill and at the white house covering all of this. i want to start with nbc news capitol hill correspondent kasie hunt and han nichols on the north lawn. mitch mcconnell wants a repeal and what do you think we'll hear from paul ryan? >> well, hallie, we are expecting, actually, to hear pretty shortly from mitch mcconnell on the senate floor, as well. and i think that's going to be very telling about how this goes forward. now, we know the statement he put out last night, it lays out a complicated procedural set of maneuvers to try to get a debate started on the senate floor over hea

speech this afternoon that indicated he couldn't vote for anything that mitch mcconnell would bring to the floor. but tonight he did vote with mcconnell but you could argue that it was only a procedural vote, that it wasn't technically on the substance. but what he meant personally about how he is going to conduct himself in the health care votes is not as clear as it sounded this afternoon. >> no. i think that's the right way it put it. i think that speech sort of stood alone. i'm not sure that it was even a predictor of his own behavior, let alone of any other republican senator's behavior. the vote they took a few moments ago, the vote they took tonight, 60-vote threshold on that. they knew they wouldn't get anywhere near 60 votes. that was a free spin as to who voted on it. senator mccain voted yes, voted with mitch mcconnell on that. that is not what it sounded like he was going to do when he gave that moving speech today. so i don't know what we do with that. >> this was a vote to basically override the budget rules on the senate floor to allow them to have proceed a vote on this

on it. senator mccain voted yes, voted with mitch mcconnell on that. that is not what it sounded like he was going to do when he gave that moving speech today. so i don't know what we do with that. >> this was a vote to basically override the budget rules on the senate floor to allow them to have proceed a vote on this bill that is the mcconnell bill plus the cruz eedition to the mcconnell deal and the port addition to that. there is the most generous concepts advanced by the republicans. and they lost ten republicans on this vote. >> yeah, and even with the generous provisions, kind of like, i don't know, like being the smartest cable news host. i don't know. not a really tough competition. and it's, even with that, they aren't willing to hold any public hearings to have any public real discussion. they've had fake senate debate time for it. but had no actual debate or discussion on the merits. it'll be interesting to me to see if the democrats are able to get anywhere with this plan they have to put dozens or hundreds of amendments up for consideration. given the fact that mcconnell

last night. now today. and tonight, mitch mcconnell has a terrible choice to make. he has to choose between being a loser or quitter. and sarah palin can tell him that being a quitter is worse. >> president trump spoke to putin at a social couple's only dinner at the g20 summit. >> the end of the evening that no one heard of. >> another secret meeting. >> this is everything. everything. >> how come that room keeps going after donald trump jr. swore publicly he had given us a full account? >> they don't voluntarily offer any information about these things. >> if what they were doing is as innocent as they claim, why all the deception? >> this has been a very, very challenging experience for all of us. >> we haven't add victory in health care. i'm very disappointed. >> i didn't expect donald trump to win. i think most of my colleagues didn't. we didn't expect to be in this situation. >> we will let obamacare fail then the democrats will come to pups. >> this is an game. >> repeal obamacare and with a two-year delay give us an opportunity to build something better. >> i oppose that ver

, rather than good, stable law. i want to repeat that. these are the words of mitch mcconnell. i hope he is listening and remembers these words. he has a for the last six months, and have only lead to trouble for him and his colleagues for let me read it again. 2014 speech. "restoring the senate." author, mitch mcconnell. when the senate is allowed to work the way it was designed to, it arrives as a result that is acceptable to people all along the political spectrum for one party's partisan legislative agenda, it creates instability and strife rather than good stable law. leader mcconnell, i couldn't agree more. it's time to start over on health care, abandon the idea of cutting medicaid to give tax break to the wealthy, abandon this new appeal and run and use the regular order to arrive at an acceptable decision for the people all along the political extract is in a mcconnell once said. it would create a much better result for the american people as well. thank you, mr. president and i yield the floor. >> jon: there is chuck schumer of new york. as you probably know by now, the repu

meeting with mitch mcconnell and kind of sharing their concerns. but they are saying they are going to wait until the congressional budget office scores this next week before they come out because nobody wants to be the third vote. they've already said no so everyone is kind of watching to see if there is the third now and no one wants to be the first to take down the bill so i think they will all wait until they can look at their final scores. >> let's talk about the timeline over the next couple of days and will there be a vote next week on the floor of the senate? >> republican leadership is saying yes that is still on at the end of next week. they did provide a little cushion by extending the august recess and extending the work time into the august recess in case they need to go longe longt they are still planning on the final vote next week which means there is a motion that is the first step and a city that will happen next week after they get a score. we will see that that is the plan right now. >> and it will come out when? >> we are hearing monday, tuesday next week. >> the w

setback to president trump's agenda. mitch mcconnell proposal for a simple repeal obamacare lacks the number of votes to pass. mcconnell's that disputed the press just moments from now and we will bring you those remarks live and we begin. in markets, a role reversal, bank of america leading wall street estimates on trading well goldman sachs reported record incomes and lending and both disappointed on core businesses. in on theiel ways recent retail rut. why he's bucking the trend in keeping stores open despite slowing traffic. u.s. markets close in two hours time, let's get check on where stocks are very we seem to be a standstill today. >> never record, we have some red on the dow and s&p 500, the nasdaq on pace for a potential record close read -- record close. the tech heavy nasdaq again on pace for a record close if it happens, the first since june 9. not so far from a potential all-time high. let's take a look at the chart on the bloomberg. of until just recently, tech have been pulling back. represents the money flows and the qqq q are associated with the nasdaq. green flows i

bill. there was a reason mitch mcconnell one of the vote before the recess. they are not good for controversial legislation. collins, probably the most moderate one to get on told that wasas like him she was enthusiastic that she was opposing it. senators are pretty pessimistic about it. right now it is not doing great. mitch mcconnell does want to bring it back next week. he is still trying to tweak the legislation of bring senators on board. once they come back every to for the august recess. written,et the bill scored, everybody on board and try to get 50 votes. that seemed like a high task. host: will there be in august recess? guest: some republicans are calling for the recess to be canceled in part because of this. it is too early to say right now. it is late july and the feeling they are making progress. perhaps he could be delayed one week. that august recess is somewhat sacred to washington and folks do like to get home. but if they have the option of making progress on this, setting -- seven your campaign pledge to repeal the affordable care act i , could see them sticki

week was meant to be the culmination of everything mitch mcconnell and the republicans worked on. today they were going to open debates on the new bill. this thursday, going to pass it, because for mitch mcconnell, passing healthcare should be treated like jacking off. you go into a dark room, get it done as quickly as possible because the longer you spend thinking about it, the more likely you will feel shame. i understand. i understand. ( laughter ) so last thursday, the new healthcare bill came out and much like last night's "game of thrones," we were all anxiously awaiting to see how many people it would kill off and also if it would include ed sheeran for no good reason. and spoiler alert, healthcare winter is coming. >> there is the $700 billion cut in medicaid, something that does not change in the senate bill compared to previous bills. many millions of people are going to lose insurance and that has been very bad for republicans' prospects every time the c.b.o. has come back with that finding. >> trevor: basically the republicans created a bizarreo lottery where everybody is wa

everybody on fox news alert, repeal is in for now. senator mitch mcconnell pulling the plug on the revised senate health care bill promising the votes on repealing obamacare instead. president trump has this message. let obamacare fail. they morning here, nine bill hemmer. welcome to "america's newsroom" and what it means for you at home. shannon continues her vacation. how are you? do we have a big hour. a lot expected, especially at the 10:00 hour. i am sandra smith informed ms. shannon bream. the senate bill is following part after senator joined in opposition, despite the setbacks, some optimistic's believe they can bridge the divide. here's james langford from last hour. >> this is a a "no" fail momen. my focus for weeks have been, let's get all the people who disagree and one room and hammer this out in one moment. for whatever reason, we have not been allowed to do that to get all the different factions into one room at one time. we have all been a no-go shady one at a time. if we can everybody and at one time and finishes, get it done. >> bill: john roberts live at the white house,

are in this mess in the first place? mitch mcconnell has said he wants to bring a 2015 repeal only billed to the floor, and the whole point was to repeal and replace. how is it that senate majority leader mitch mcconnell got a vote to with repeal, when nearly every sitting republican voted for the same measure back in 2015? >> same situation where we are playing with live ammunition. the senate's repeal, answer to their constituents. mitch mcconnell has been a tough fight. he is fighting all different kinds of health care repeal or replace packages that can get 51 senators. he spent weeks doing this. it sounds like he has the right to bill, skinny bill, that will come up to the boat to proceed today. that will at least get the debate started. this is not perfection. this is compromise, happening in the senate right now. you can nickel and dime with the senate has had to do, but this is, can they get the votes to go to the floor and opened this thing up for debate. sb 12 of the three republican senators refusing to support , voted exactly by this measure. a year and a half ago be ex

amazing. >> it is 11:00 a.m. out west, all eyes are on capitol hill. any minute now, mitch mcconnell will speak to reporters. he is expected to give us an update on the health care vote later in the day. can republicans do what they promised to do for years? >> i hear there's something called skinny repeal that's coming up. >> it's an idea republicans think they may get the 50 votes they need to pass. >> this is do or die for republicans. >> we can do better than obama care, we have the responsibility to the american people to do that. today's vote to begin the debate is the first step and we should take it. >> main senator susan collins is already a no. mcconnell is getting help, days after revealing his brain cancer diagnosis, senator john mccain is returning to the hill this hour, he's now expected to be a yes. if we get past the motion to proceed. what are they voting on? here's what we know. the first vote is expected to be the 2015 repeal. we have most of the affordable care act. the second is expected to be the cruz and poran amendments. if both fail, it comes down to the skinny re

. you know, mitch mcconnell shouldn't be underestimated. mitch mcconnell is good at getting stuff passed, and he moves in mysterious ways. it's possible that he has some plan b around this, but i can't imagine that his plan for getting this through involved losing both a moderate like susan collins and home state iconoclast like rand paul, and also conservatives like mike lee and jerry moran. it's such a heterojennous group that is saying no. it implies that any plan mcconnell might have had for how to maneuver around the votes he needs might have fallen apart. i don't know if more time is going to help or hurt. i'm starting to feel tonight looking at senators' twitter feeds over the course of this hour that there might be more no votes by the time we hit midnight tonight. >> now they don't even have to say no. as you noticed with lindsey graham, he doesn't have to come up and say no because it's done. they can't do it now. so you're going to hear process. you're going to hear lindsey graham saying, now it's time to just start over again with something new. and graham himself was

have any faith? what do you think, eric? >> eric: something important happened. mitch mcconnell came to the speaker and said we are going to figure out which billboard going to push next week. that's important because originally it was a bill no one liked and then it was going to be the repeal ran paul and others like. if you pass the big bill that no one likes, republicans, you're going to get hurt in 2018. fair warning. if you pass nothing at all you're going to get hurt in 2018, another warning. what you really have -- the only choice forward and the most logical one and most sensible one for the american people is passed the clean repeal now and then spend the next two years with a good replacement bill that encompasses the four things conservatives have complained for eight years about. state lines, being able to have competition across state state. prescription drugs, tort reform. >> kat: i agree. eboni, you look like you disagree. >> eboni: i agree the four things should have been in that bill. if they do the clean repeal but they don't have anything in place, there still might b

. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell's state is expected to be hard hit by the proposed cuts in medicaid. omar villafranca went to kentucky coal country. >> this one is for my immune system. >> reporter: every day kathy collins has to take 27 pills in her fight against the autoimmune disease lupus. >> my legs hurt. >> reporter: 50-year-old collins lives in rural kentucky with her sister carol maggard. collins is on a fixed income and uses medicaid to help pay her mounting healthcare bills. what would your medical bills look like without medicaid? >> last year they were $945,000. >> reporter: nothing that we've advocated so far would cause anybody currently on medicaid to be taken off of medicaid. >> reporter: that was senate majority leader mitch mcconnell of kentucky, trying to calm fears about the future of medicaid. under obamacare, kentucky expanded medicaid and cut the uninsured rate from 14% to almost 6%. but right now, the bill calls for significant cuts in federal funding of state medicaid programs. to make up for the loss, kentucky governor matt bevin has proposed chang

you have the nomination of neil gorsuch, you had first of all mitch mcconnell refusing to even have hearings refusing to even have hearings on the merrick garland nomination. - by the way, you good with that? - i'm very good with that. - you are. you don't think that there is weapons-grade hutspa in the republicans complaining about how neil gorsuch was treated when merrick garland was left outside the store pressing his nose against the glass? - well it's rank hypocrisy, i'll be the first. - rank hypocrisy. - absolutely. no but i'm okay with it, and look. - but why are you okay with it? if it's rank hypocrisy, why are you okay with it? - well because at some point, politics is a bloodless war. - well because at some point, politics is a bloodless war. and although i try to encourage civility and comity as much as possible. - and theoretically, non-hypocrisy. - theoretically. but think about it this way, mitch mcconnell could have done something else, he could have gone through this charade, of course we're gonna have, this charade, of course we're gonna have, we're gonna meet with

replace bill has flat lined. what was mitch mcconnell hoping to do? now a straight repeal. that effort is also doa. murkowski joining other members and saying no to repeal only. our word of the day is fail, or some version there of. >> i regret the effort to repeal and immediately replace the failures of obama care will be unsuccessful. that should not mean we should give up. >> the definition of insanity is to do again what has failed sefrlt times before. >> you have to be able to resolve all these issues. >> it's not good news for the country, we have to move to the next steps. >> now that one party effort has largely failed. we hope they will change their tune. >> inaction is not an option. congress needs to step up. congress needs to do their job and congress needs to do their job now. >> take a look at this, when the drudge report calls this congress the most unproductive in 164 years, republicans know they are in trouble. as for president trump. he's oozing our word of the day too, except it's about his new plan of action. >> i think we're probably in that position we'll just let

agenda is paul ryan and mitch mcconnell and donald trump doesn't necessarily know what's in the health care bill. he just wants something popular he can go to rallies at so more people can fill that dark void inside of him. he needs praise, every day, there are stories about him going around to his staff today, i know it wasn't presidential, wasn't that tweet amaze something what is he going to say? they have to say it's great. this is a person that everybody told joe was fundamentally unfit to be president. surprise, he is. >> they need to focus on the issues, ignore it, ignore the twitter war. working together. that's all we have. >> it's only ability health care, what do you think his beliefs are about health care? >> you know, it's hard to tell, i'll be honest with you. it's hard to tell because every time there is a message out of the white house, sometimes he sends a tweet that contradicts it. and i think that's what republican pundits and a lot of republican people on television have to deal with. we have so seifer through that and find the real meaning. on the bottom line, the

majority leader mitch mcconnell responded last night that republicans are going to stick with their current plan. also, the white house is facing strong opposition from several states to a request for voter data from the 2016 election. data that would be used by the president's voter fraud commission. nbc's kelly o'donnell joins us here trump's golf club in new jersey. kelly, what is the president's response to that? >> reporter: well, the president is frustrated when it comes to both of those topics, health care, and the issues on supposed voting irregularities. if we talk health care first, the president, throughout that twitter suggestion of if republicans are sort of stalled, then try just repealing, mitch mcconnell, who runs this process, is saying no to that in a big way even though he's been unable to get his republican conference to fall in line, to get on the same page, to come up with their own idea. they are many votes short of a plan to put together a new health insurance model, a new structure. so, the problem for mitch mcconnell is with an election next year, the notio

that quote, mitch mcconnell, when the senate is allowed to work, the way it was designed to,. [inaudible] if it is an assembly line for one party's partisan legislativr agenda, it creates instability and strife rather than good stable loss. i want to be there. these are the words of mitch mcconnell. i hope leader mcconnell is listening and remembers these words. he hasn't for the last six months and it's only led to w trouble for him and his republican colleagues in the senate. let me read it again, 2014 speech restoring the senate. author, mitch mcconnell. when the senate is allowed it to work the way it was designed to, it arrives that result acceptable to people all along the political spectrum but if it is an assembly line for one party's partisan legislative agenda, it creates instability and strife rather than good, stable loss. leader mcconnell, i couldn't agree more. it's time to start over on healthcare. abandon the idea of cutting medicaid to give a tax break to the wealthy, abandoned this new repeal in run and use the regular order to arrive at a result acceptable

has not been easy. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is hoping to introduce a revised bill this next week and at this point we don't know what that will include or if those changes will be enough for it to pass. if not, republicans agree on a plan b. president trump in lawmakers on repealing obamacare and taking some time to figure out what to replace it with. louisiana's bill cassidy said that's a nonstarter. >> a nonstarter. i'll tell you it will be uncertainty in the insurance market. premiums will rise. he gets all the power to people who don't believe in president trump campaign pledges, who don't continue to cover in care for preexisting conditions and gives them a stronger hand. it betrays pledges. >> republicans will likely work with democrats to fix obamacare with the health insurance market. but the august recess three weeks away, that would push health care reform along with other big-ticket items to later this year. adding to the time crunch, treasury secretary stephen hitchens says the administration is planning to release his tax reform plan until september. >> web

entitled restorina the senate that, quote, this is mitch mcconnell, when the senate is allowed to work the way it was designed to, it arise as a result acceptable to people all along the political f spectrum. but if it's an assembly line from one part is partisan legislative agenda, it creates instability and strife rather than good stable daughter i want to repeat that i the use of them words of mitch mcconnell. i hope leader mcconnell is listening and remembers thesehsd words. he hasn't for the last six montl and its own elect to trouble for him and his republican colleagues in the senate. so let me read it again. 2014 speech, restoring the senate, author mitch mcconnell. when you send is allowed to work the way it was designed to, it arrives at a result acceptable g to people all along the political spectrum. but if it's an assembly line for one parties partisan legislative agenda, it creates instability and strife, rather than good stable law.agree leader mcconnell, i couldn't agree more. it's time to start over on health care. abandon the idea of cutting medicaid to give a tax bre

a devastating blow to president trump's top legislative priority as mitch mcconnell concedes defeat on the senate health care bill in its current form. he had essentially no choice after two more republicans defected leaving that bill without enough support even to begin debate. >> late last night, mitch mcconnell explained in a statement regretfully it is now apparent that the effort to repeal and immediately replace failure of obamacare will not be successful. mel n mcconnell saying he will push for a few version that will repeal obamacare outright with a two year phaseout so there is time to come up with a new system. a majority already backed the repeal bill. >> this is just after the president tweeted along the same lines, republicans should just repeal now and work on a new plan that will start from a clean slate. dems will join in. not sure about that. fallout from the defection of the two senators came quickly. ryan nobles has more from capitol hill. >> reporter: good morning. this is essentially the worst case scenario for mitch mcconnell. two more republican senators, mike

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in order to stop donald trump from doing something like this. we will see if mitch mcconnell has any appetite for doing that same thing. >> jeff sessions will find out who his friends are sooner rather than later. thank you, rachel. >> thanks, lawrence. >>> well, jared kushner spoke today. big news. we heard his voice, that little voice in the white house driveway. but he didn't say much. he will have more to say tomorrow under oath. >> my name is jared kushner. >> kushner spent two hours answering questions posed by staffers on the senate intelligence committee. >> i did not collude with russia, nor do i know of anyone else in the campaign who did so. >> he's still giving himself an out there, saying he wasn't aware of it. >> there's a lot of behavior going on in that white house that makes me think this is how people would beleahave if they e guilty of colluding. >> trump clearly feels aggrieved that sessions recused himself. >> if he's very conservative about this russia investigation, maybe he has reason to be. >> donald trump had a better message and ran a smarter campaign. >> t

, or activity in one place and save, where would you go? ♪ expedia. lou: senator mitch mcconnell racing to get support for revised health care bill for a vote next week. $70 billion more for states to create their own reforms. you want to bring everybody along when you're having a party like this. it allows health savings accounts to be used to pay premiums. surely. there is also $45 billion to battle the opioid epidemic and the ability to buy cheaper plans with less coverage for those who want it, something that senator ted cruz has been advocating. for more on the fight to repeal and replace obamacare, yes, that is where we are, folks, we're joined by ed rollins, who served in three presidential administration, chief political advisor to the house republican leadership, the dean himself. okay, mitch mcconnell has delivered a bill. are you not excited about its prospects? >> no i'm not. i think rand paul gave all the explanations why it shouldn't pass. obviously he is a no vote. i think to a certain extent as much time as they have had to work on this bill it is still not a satisfactor

dean himself. okay, mitch mcconnell has delivered a bill. are you not excited about its prospects? >> no i'm not. i think rand paul gave all the explanations why it shouldn't pass. obviously he is a no vote. i think to a certain extent as much time as they have had to work on this bill it is still not a satisfactory bill. still not a bill with 52 members to vote for it. so i don't know what they plan on doing at this point in time. it is not there yet. i'm all for he repealing obamacare. lou: do you think the members of the senate realize how stupid they all look? >> no. i don't think they know how stupid. lou: i'm very serious. these are not, these are men and women not acting liked indicated people. they are not acting as responsible stewards of the ship of state. >> or living up to promises -- there is not a single senator who is republican who did not promise to repeal obamacare. lou: there is matter of personal integrity. >> this is the vehicle. they get one more shot to amend it on the floor, but at the end of the day it needs a lot of work, it needs a lot of work. lou: in y

on the russia stuff and gets the work of the people. >> harris: mitch mcconnell is speaking right now. he was called out earlier by rand paul, senator rand paul. repeal only is what rand paul is saying. here's mitch mcconnell. >> the engagement we've seen has been important to our efforts and it's sent an unmistakable signal to the country that this administration, not only understands the pain middle-class families have felt under obamacare, but it has also committed to do something about it. by now, we are all keenly aware of the pain that obamacare has caused for literally millions of families. premiums have skyrocketed doubling on average in the vast majority of states. many have zero or even one insurers. it's wrong. many americans now face the real possibility of having no options at all and could find themselves trapped, forced by law to purchase obamacare insurance, but left out of obamacare without any means to do so. all the while, markets continue to collapse under obamacare and states across the country is a troubling indication of what's to come unless we act. fortuna

political move, it was an attempt by mitch mcconnell to -- in past moves, had voted for the repeal of obamacare. e are in a different political situation of it this has been a disaster. this bill has now failed. but committee exchanges and the health care system under obamacare does have severe problems. both democrats and republicans acknowledge that. insurers have pulled out, leaving a few number of people providing plans under the affordable care act in certain markets as well. those problems are not going away. to dohe president needs and what congress is going to have to do is start talking to each other across the aisle about what is a practical way forward to fix some of these problems in the health care system right now. which they both acknowledge. vonnie: that is not going to happen, is it? sahil: not anytime soon. i don't think republicans can simply go and say let's work together with democrats. there is an appetite to do this. there are a number of relatively moderate republican senators masseuse and collins, ron -- susan collins, ron johnson, who've been talking with dem

majority leader mitch mcconnell has a jukebox it's probably playing "stuck in the middle with you." moderates on the left, conservatives on the right. something ain't right if following the metaphor, mitch mcconnell may be mr. blonde from reservoir dogs. the revised health care bill, acknowledge cobbled together to pass, may not pass. with two hard no votes the margin of error is actually non-existent. one more vote it sinks. knowing the stakes for his agenda the president tweeted to help or maybe to setup the kentucky senator at a fall guy. what the president wrote -- so important. republican senators under leadership of senator mitch mcconnell get health care plan approved. after seven years of obamacare disaster, must happen. in a case you think it's a one-time thing, listen -- >> it has to get passed. they have to do it. they have to get together and get it done. he's got to pull it off. mitch has to pull it off. he's working very hard. he's got to pull it off. >> and mj lee on capitol hill. wants to vote next week. how it goes depends on one thing. the cbo score. >> reporter:

republican senators and the skinny repeal bill. mitch mcconnell said quote, time to move on. we will discuss. that comes next. uber still on the hunt for a new chief executive officer. may be onng ge ceo the short list. behind the company's search for leadership. plus, today is the day, at least .or 30 people elon musk has newest electric vehicle. a month-long efforts by senate republicans to pass house legislation collapsed early this morning. senate majority mitch mcconnell pulling the bill from the floor. joining us now from capitol hill to discuss what's next is our chief washington correspondent, and also alex waste, white house editor. let me come to you first and ask you. we've been over the details of what exactly happened in the early hours this morning and what a loss for the gop, particularly the gop leadership. what happens now to fix health care? changes are still broken and the united states. were literally audible gasp on the senate floor when senator john mccain became the third republican to vote against what was known as the skinny ,eal of the health care reform ess

try again even as senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is pushing a fallback plan to repeal now and install a new health care plan later. >>> the news comes as the new report from the congressional budget office says that the health care bill would save nearly $500 billion over the next decade, but it would drastically increase the number of uninsured by millions. nbc blayne alexander joins us live from washington. what does president trump want the senators to do. first he says repeal and replace or let obamacare fail. what does he want them do? >> reporter: well, janelle, he wants them to get something done. that's the short answer in all of this. he wants to see something happen on health care. he wants to see it happen soon. that's why, as you mentioned, he's telling all of them, you should stay here in washington until you can make a move on health care. specifically, it sounds like he's changing course when it comes to exactly how to proceed on this. several days ago, mitch mcconnell had to admit they didn't have the votes to go through with repeal and replace, so he went

. now here we are, in the final hours here, where mitch mcconnell was trying to get his bill over the finish line, and now, just recently, we have seen two more republicans peel away from this bill. so it has become increasingly difficult for mitch mcconnell, who is widely seen as a very shrewd political operator, to now be able to bring along his caucus. i think this is a very problematic thing not only for the republicans but for mitch mcconnell personally, because he is always seen as a stalwart champion of being able to bring his caucus together. but now, just when we thought that he only needed maybe one or two votes, now you see more republicans peeling off. and suddenly the health ofjohn mccain isa suddenly the health ofjohn mccain is a big deal. notjust to senator mccain, but to his party. absolutely, but now that we have moran and lee who have actually peeled off the bill, now the question becomes what more republicans have actually peeled away from supporting this legislation. and i think that is the difficulty that mitch mcconnell will have. we see wisconsin's senator ron j

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legislative priority. this morning as mitch mcconnell concedes defeat on the senate health care bill in its current form. he had essentially no choice after two more republicans defected from the bill, leaving it without enough support even to begin debate, christine. >> late last night, mcconnell explained in a statement, "regretfully, it is now apparent that the effort to repeal and immediately replace the failure of obamacare will not be successful." mcconnell now making a major pivot, announcing he will push for a new version that will repeal obamacare outright with a two-year phase-out so there's time to come up with a replacement system. mcconnell notes that a majority of senators already backed a house repeal bill in 2015. >> the statement came moments after the president posted a tweet along the same lines -- "republicans should just repeal failing obamacare now and work on a new health care plan that will start from a clean slate. dems will join in!" fallout from the defection of the two senators mcconnell had been counting on came quickly. our ryan nobles has more from capitol

lou: president trump today showing his exasperation with pitiful pair of mitch mcconnell and paul ryan. whose pace cannot seem to keep up with the president, a day and a half after the healthcare bill imploded, president invited republican senators to the white house for a delightful lunch, and making it clear at lunch, he does not believe that senators should be leaving the dc swamp until they can hammer out a health care plan for the american people. we'll discuss that health care battle with counselor to president kellyanne conway. john roberts with our report first. reporter: a white house source tells fox news it was idea of president and chief of staff reince priebus to hold a high pressure lunch at white house today, pressing senators to get onboard the idea of health care reform, and do it now. in state dining room, president trump gatherin together all of the republican senators who would come for a spirited sales pitch on getting rid of obamacare. >> any senator who votes again starting debate is really telling american, that you are fine with obamacare, but being fine w