president, the obamacare status quo is not sustainable. this law was fatally flawed from the beginning and it is rapidly imploding. the american people need relief. inaction is not an option. my colleagues across the aisle seem to want to do one of two things, first, they want to do nothing, which would leave americans worse off than they are now or they want to double down on obamacare's failures by giving the government even more control over americans' health care and then raising americans' taxes to pay for it. mr. president, neither one of these so-called slawtions will -- solutions will provide relief to the american people. republicans are committed to providing real health care to the millions of americans. and we are working on legislation to do that. my colleagues in the house have made a good start and we are working on a new bill in the united states senate. we are working to help millions of americans who were left with no options. we are committed to frame the american people from the onerous obamacare mandate which requires

and most people on obamacare know it. after an excruciating series of events and complications, melissa and her husband found themselves just before christmas, emotionally and financially devastated crying in a doctor's office faced with yet another seamingly unpayable bill. when insurance wouldn't cover the atkinson's care, they emptied out melissa's t, th emptied out melissa's 401k to pay their bills. they're not going to be and haven't been the first. there are many, many cases such as that. the 401k's. the first rule of medicine is do no harm. but obamacare's lies have caused this and throughout the whole country families like this, nothing but pain. aaron and andy witsik are small business owners from illinois. they have six children. her youngest daughter has a rare genetic condition. children born with it are sometimes called butterfly children because their skin is as fragile as the wings of a butterfly. popie has to wear special bandages all of the time. repeatedly discontinued and replaced with what washington d

most people on obamacare know it. in series ofuciate events and complications, melissa and her husband found themselves, just before christmas, emotionally and financially devastated, crying in a doctors's office, faced with another seemingly unpayable bill. when insurance would not cover their care, they emptied out melissa's 401(k) to pay their bills. the first.ot be there are many cases just like that. the first will of medicine is do no harm. lies have caused this. drop the whole country, family -- throughouthing the whole country, families like this, nothing but pain. small business owners from illinois, their youngest daughter puppy has a rare genetic condition. children born with it are sometimes called butterfly children because their skin is as fragile as the wings of a butterfly. copy has to wear special bandage has to wear special bandages all the time. her care has been replaced. for her, these plans are not equivalent. her family has spent precious time and tremendous resources fighting for exceptions for

our constituents are hurting under obamacare. they are counting on us to do the right thing right now. that means voting to allow the senate to finally move beyond obamacare's failures. that's what i intend to do. that's what i urge every colleague to do. we can do better than obamacare. we have a responsibility to the american people to do that. today's vote to begin debate is the first step and we should take it. mr. president, i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: without

obamacare is death and it's failing. it dramatically expands popular health savings accounts, it provides tax credits so americans can purchase a private plan that is right for them and their families. it devotes substantial resources to fight the opioid, and this is a tremendous problem, the opioid epidemic, $45 billion is being put in so that the people of many states like new hampshire, ohio, and so many others that have such a big problem can be helped and helped greatly when we are fighting this drug problem. it provides, among many other things, higher quality care and more flexibility for states to administer medicaid to better serve their poorest citizens. tomorrow the senate will vote on whether to allow this urgently needed bill to come to the senate floor for debate. the question for every senator, democrat or republican is whether they will side with obamacare's architect, which have been so destructive to our country, or with its forgotten victims. any senator who votes against starting debate is telling ame

we'll let obamacare fail. then the democrats will come to us and say how do we fix it, how do we fix it? or how do we come up with a new plan. reporter: democrats say they're open to working with republicans on a fix but it can't include a repeal. so here is what chuck shuck asse minority leader -- chuck schumer the minority leader said moments ago. the. >> republicans propose surgery. the operation was a failure. now republicans are he proposing a second surgery that will surely kill the patient. met sin is needed. -- medicine is needed. reporter: getting these two sides together to fix it, good luck. cheryl, back to you. cheryl: luckies really needed especially if you're mitch mcconnell right now. we're waiting to hear from him, adam. thank you for all the details on that. you know, let's bring in more analysis on all of this republican strategist ashley hayak, democracy for america. kneel sroca, "weekly standard." john mccormack. so i mean this is, john, this is pretty wild what we're seeing going on. you t

many are fighting to save obamacare or at the very least to shore up obamacare, a lot of reasons the republicans can't get their plan passed. the gop plan is not polling well. the associated press says the gop bill has only 22% support with 51% opposing. second, the cbo says the gop plan would leave 22 million more people uninsured by 2026 and that out of pocket expenses would balloon from $5,000 now to $13,000 in 2026. in fairness, we should note the cbo numbers for obamacare were way off the mark. that's mostly because the cbo acknowledges that human behavior is very difficult to predict. finally, shep, republicans are working with a very thin margin as we know. the gop majority in the senate is 52-48 with john mccain out, it's 51-48 meaning you can only loose one vote and right now you have several republicans that are on the fence. shep? >> trace gallagher live for us this afternoon. trace, thanks very much. the final bill is about to ring on wall street. it began ringing just now. the dow is off 46. still very near historic highs. should news break out, we'll break in. breaking

that is independent of obamacare. i don't hear anybody talking about health care costs under control, prescription drug costs -- the democrats mentioned it recently. the things that really bother people about health care. if you want to say every four years when you go to the ballot box you say, are things better in health care? they've been worse. they've been worse since -- >> well, right. when it comes to costs, you kind of run into difficult political ground. what you're essentially saying by lowering costs is that you're also going to be reducing access to something. so that's something that politicians will point to that happens in other countries. look, if you limit certain prices on drugs, then you can't have access to every drug that we have access to in america. and by access to meaning it's available, not necessarily that people can pay for it. >> right. >> but so that's one of the arguments that you run into. when you say let's lower costs, you're really asking physicians also to perhaps do more with less.

so, obamacare has failed. the death spiral of obamacare continues. even with partial repeal, obamacare will still be in place and obamacare will still be a drag on the insurance markets and making it difficult for people to buy insurance. >> but isn't that why they're a little bit reluctant because there is no firm commitment that they get something else. we saw what happened around here six years ago. >> there have been many ideas about how we get more people in our country insurance. for example, 27 million people don't have insurance rights now under obamacare. the estimates are that 57% of those 27 million don't get it because it's too expensive. it's too expensive because of the obamacare regulations. the death spiral of obamacare is regulations make insurance expensive, and then you say, oh, but you can get it after you're sick. that is the real problem. that's the whole problem we have. it's the adverse selection and the death spiral. that's what we need to fix. we don't have enough votes to repeal all of that, so we're going to have to move f

obamacare has failed and obamacare must go. [ applause ] president trump and i are grateful for the efforts of senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell and the republicans who worked so hard in the house and senate to keep their promise to repeal and replace obamacare. as the president said earlier today, most republicans were loyal, terrific and worked hard and there are no truer words. but, last night, we learned the senate still doesn't have consensus on a bill to repeal and replace obamacare at the same time. president trump and i fully support the majority leader's decision to move forward with a bill that just repeals obamacare and gives congress time, as the president said, to work on a new health care plan that will start with a clean slate. you know, the senate actually passed the very same bill in 2015 and sent it to president obama's desk and they should do it again. to be clear, the senate should vote to repeal now and replace later or return to the legislation carefully kraflted in the house and senate. either way, inaction is not an option. congress needs to step up. congress n

someone who has set for years that they would never repeal and replace obamacare said that obamacare was here to stay. the former speaker of the house, john boehner. he said it repeatedly, he said it a few months ago, and so far his words remain true. >> so where do the lawmakers go from here? where do they go, literally, it is 2:00. where did they go? >> we don't know. we don't know if they will be on the defense bill. that was objected to on the floor. there are some nominations that they need to move through. there was talk that that maybe they don't even go through this extra two weeks of the recess. remember, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said that we are going to stay here in washington for a couple of days. the house is scheduled to leave town the entire month, and they would not stay around because they don't have any legislative traffic. think about the issues that they have to accomplish. none of them are satisfied right now. the house has to pass a budget. they have to move through appropriations bills. they have to avoid a shutdown in october. the house passed fo

to repeal and replace obamacare. when he actually called me how to announcing his intention to say he would base it on those conservative principles and then to do a little bit of trash talking that he was pretty sure kentucky could do a better job the president job and i will make sure that he has a chance to try. into a improve medicaid. >> the senate bill and the house bill gives all the freedom and flexibility to meet the real needs. i just talked to a very inspiring bomb she told us a story of the cost of obamacare and andersonis a down syndrome boy but the light of her life but the truth is --. >> medicaid in new was further blinded in the disabled and especially its once again states like kentucky the ability to reform will make sure that live in and anderson have the support they need that every person in kentucky wants them to have. to believe in state based solutions the senate bill will do just that and replace with a health care system with individual responsibility and free market principles so i came to

the skinny bill as a replacement for obamacare is a fraud. the skinny bill is a vehicle to getting conference to find a replacement. it is not a replacement in and of itself. the policy is terrible because you eliminate the individual employer mandate, which we all want eliminated but we actually have an overall solution to the problem of obamacare, so you're going to have increased premiums and most of obamacare stays in place. it's a -- if the skinny bill becomes law. not only do we not replace obamacare, we politically own the collapse of health care. i'd rather get out of the way and let it collapse than have a half-aassed approach where it is now our problem. so we're not going to do that with our vote. what we will do is move the process along. our freedom caucus friends, who i disagree with a lot but sometimes i agree with them. here's what mark meadow said. we would send a skinny bill to the president's the question. the answer is no. so it becomes the vehicle for conference. mark meadows agreed the skinny repeal would be dead on arri

obamacare. to find a product that's better for the american people. i have a bunch of ideas. everybody has ideas. we've been asked by our leadership for days now to vote on the least common denominator, the skinny bill, because the pitch is if you vote for this skinny bill, then we can go to conference and we can get my bill scored, we can get ted cruz's bill scored, we can get other people's bills scored that has promise of maybe bringing us together. but they're not scored yet. that makes imminent sense to me with one condition. we actually go to conference. there's the increasing concern on my part and others that what the house will do is take whatever we pass, the so-called skinny bill, not take it to conference, go directly to the house floor, vote on it, and that goes to the president's desk with the argument, this is better than doing nothing. here's my response. the skinny bill as policy is a disaster. the skinny bill as a replacement for obamacare is a fraud. the skinny bill is a vehic

obamacare is a total disas per. we'll let obamacare fail and the democrats will come to us and say how do we fix it, how do we fix it. or how do we come up with a new plan. >> he said at the beginning of this, shep, the president said he is not going to own, this he is going to do everything he can in conjunction with republicans in congress to shin ensure that the democrats own this. but at the same time the democrats want to wrap it around the president's neck and ride it into 2018. so this is really going to be a battle of political wills in the next 17 months. >> shepard: the vice president, mike pence, spoke on healthcare today i understand. >> yeah, and it's the vice president who really is the prime liaison, legislative director mark short does a lot of the heavy lifting in terms of the technical aspects. the vice president is the primary liaison between the white house and capitol hill. he's taking aim at republicans who voted to repeal obamacare back in 2015, whether they be in the house or the senate and s

watch them suffering under obamacare. they did everything they could to prevent the senate to provide a better way forward such as reading amendments for endless amounts of time. such things as holding up nominations for key positions, because they were unhappy. that we were trying to find a way to something better. then obamacare. so i suspect they are pretty satisfied. i regret to save, they succeeded in that effort. so now, i think it is appropriate to ask, what are their ideas? it will be interesting to see. what they suggest is the way forward. for myself, i can say, i am pretty safe to say, they are bailing out insurance companies. bailing out insurance companies. no thought to any kind of refor reform. it is not something i want to be a part of i suspect, not many people over here that are interested in that. will be interesting to see what they have in mind. quadrupling down on the failures of obamacare with a single-payer system. we had devote a little earlier, thank you to the senator from montana. they did not

, they secretly like obamacare. representative ron desantis is here to explain. that's next. horseheadswivellychair.com it could be the next big thing i should totally get that domain name... get your great idea online too... get your domain today, and get... ...a free trial of gocentral from godaddy trish: president trump warning republican senators they must keep problem mission to repeal and replace obamacare. after all this is what they were sent to do, right? lawmakers have been promising this seven plus years. i don't know, they suddenly wake up, they don't know what hit them? they haven't figured this one out? they didn't have anything in place they thought they could come to agreement on? rather than shoddy workmanship if you ask me for these politicians anyway, now that they have the chance to repeal and replace obamacare. some senators saying not so fast. three of them in fact. my next guest says there are republican lawmakers who secretly like obamacare. here to tell us what he means, republican member fr

that is obamacare's great irony. the law requires people to buy health insurance while also making it impossible to do so. for ?efn and a half years -- for seven and a half years republicans fought to expose the failures of obamacare and have pledged time and time again to repeal it. every single republican member of the senate has expressed support for repealing obamacare. most of us have made promises to our constituents to do just that, and those promises coupled with the obvious failures of obamacare are a big reason why we now -- why we now find ourselves in control of both chambers of congress and the presidency. for the last six months republicans have worked in good faith to find a path forward to both repeal and replace obamacare. the released discussion drafts attempted to bridge the divide between our more conservative and moderate members, so the products were never going to be perfect. such as the inherent nature of compromise. the draft released last week included editions to address member priorities t

do you believe the skinny bill is an actual replacement for obamacare? >> it absolutely would not, senator graham. >> senator graham -- >> senator mccain, my question is for you, actually. you gave this big speech about returning to regular order. what do you say to people who say then you should vote no and send this thing back to committee. >> as i mentioned earlier, i am voting no unless i see that there is a path to a conference that we will come out with a result that will address the challenges. the status quo in my state is unsatisfactory. that's why i'm working with the governor of my state, who has proposed three different amendments, which i will be putting up for votes as we go through. and if it satisfies the governor, then i would be satisfied, right now. my governor is not satisfied. okay? >> one last question from south carolina. >> said that your amendment would be conferenceable. >> i am 99% sure we'll get a memo saying that the graham-cassidy-heller, maybe johnson bill, will be conferenceable and that block has been checked. and i reall

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working towards a better solution than obamacare. i have seen the pain in the eyes of too many constituents because of this. they deserve better than what obamacare has given them and if hope in the end that a majority of the senate will agree. we've been contending with ongoing conversations across the conference about how to get pero there and shared significant input over a for period. we are going to keep working really hard on this and continue to focus on the fundamentals that have guided the process from the start like improving the portability of health insurance. we also want to strengthen medicaid for those that need it most by giving the states more flexibility while ensuring those that rely on the program don'tm have the rug pulled out from under them. many states want the ability to reform the program so that they can deliver medicare at a lower cost. under the current law, states have some ability to do so. for example they launched a particularly notable effort thanks to the leadership of the cms connector was also hel

how long do they have to wait to repeal obamacare? how long do they have to wait to get relief on their taxes? how long do they have to wait for congress to act and actually get something done? i can tell you, their answer is, they waited too long. >> jon: we have live team coverage. john roberts that the white house, but we begin with peter doocy on capitol hill. >> this new plan to repeal appears to already be in trouble. mitch mcconnell says he wants to bring this to the senate floor, that bill that passed back in may and then add on an amendment to repeal obamacare like they did in 2015 and take two years to figure out what their placement should be. some republicans are telling us now that they are going to need to be convinced to go along with that. >> i don't know what that would entail. i assume there something behind that, i don't support it. if it's a process to get a replacement, then as i said all along, i'm willing to work with members of my party and democrats to try to figure out a replacement. >> portman isn't only one

because obamacare was so bad. >> the president talked about repealing obamacare just this afternoon. i want you to listen to this. >> we do have to repeal obamacare. and we will end up replacing it with something that is going to be outstanding. far, far better than failing obamacare. the republican senators are great people. but they have a lot of different states. some states need this. some states need that. but we're getting it together and it's going to happen. right, mike? >> yes, sir. >> i think. >> yeah. right, mike? yes, sir. okay, i think. >> republicans -- what did you make that have moment? they promised to repeal obamacare for seven years now. >> yeah, don, lets me give you one number from our abc/"washington post" poll out today. that's that by 50 to 24, americans are saying they prefer the current affordable care act to whatever the sort of unknown republican replacement is. there are 25% who are saying they don't want either. think it's fair to say over the last however many years, obamacare is unpopular and has a lot of problems and needs fixes, even democrats will t

our constituents are hurting under obamacare. they are counting on us to do the right thing right now. that means voting to allow the senate to finally move beyond obamacare's failures. that's what i intend to do. that's what i urge every colleague to do. we can do better than obamacare. we have a responsibility to the american people to do that. today's vote to begin debate is the first step and we should take it. mr. president, i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: without objection. the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent that further proceedings under the yoarm call -- quorum call be dispense with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent that following my remarks, the democratic leader be recognized to use his leader time for up to 20 minutes and that following his remarks the senator from nebraska, senator fischer, be recognized to note the absence of a quorum. the presiding offic

the senate gop plan to replace obamacare dies for lack of republican support. and a repeal only plan is flatlining for the same reason. so why is the white house blaming democrats? let it fail. president trump refuses to accept any blame or responsibility for the fate of millions of patients, saying republicans should just let obamacare fail and that he won't own it. the special counsel wants to question donald trump jr. and former campaign manager paul manafort. they have learned the identity of the eighth person. >>> most wanted dead or alive. and if he's alive, where is he? allied forces now on the offensive. is he running out of places to hide? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> breaking news, another stunning failure for republicans. first a senate health care bill collapses and then three republicans pose a follow-up repeal only plan with republicans killing that as well. president trump says they should let obamacare fail, never minding the millions of patients who would be without care. one top republica

obamacare has failed. and obamacare must go. and let me be clear, this is the moment, now is the time. despite the opposition of literally every single democrat in both chambers of congress, on tuesday i'm pleased to report the senate voted and i cast the tiebreaker to begin the debate to repeal and replace obamacare. and the nfib was there helping to make it happen. [applause] let me assure you, president trump and our entire administration are literally working around the clock with senate republicans to finish what they started earlier this week. throughout the rest of today and i'm told late into the hours of tonight, the senate will continue debating proposalses from republicans and democrats and when the all said, the world's greatest deliberative body, i believe, will vote on a bill to keep republicans' promise to the american people, to repeal and replace obamacarement -- obamacare. president trump made it clear just a few short days ago, inaction is not an option. and as the president said this morning, the senate repub

no one has ever said obamacare was perfect. and i have called five or six of my republican colleagues on the other side if we stop this effort with trumpcare, with repeal or repeal and replace with something far worse than the present condition, we can go back to committee and improve the present health care system, get premiums lower, get health care better, stabilize the system so there is more competition. we'll do that. and you know, my good friend, the senator from wyoming, i heard him saying to his colleagues the democrats will never negotiate, schumer will never negotiate. so i saw him on the floor last night and assured him that i will, that's our goal. he accepted that in good faith. so the bottom line is simple, i say to my republican colleagues -- oh, i would say to my republican colleagues, when you find yourself in a hole, the first rule is stop digging. by continuing this process, trying to send something, anything to conference with the house, republicans are just digging a deeper and deeper hole for themselves a

obamacare has failed. and obamacare must go. [applause] president trump and i are greatful for efforts of senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, and vast majority of republicans that worked so hard in the house and senate to keep their promise to repeal and replace obama care. as the president said just earlier today, most republicans were loyal, terrific, worked really hard. there are no truer words but last night we learned that the senate still doesn't have consensus on a bill to repeal and replace obamacare at the same time. president trump and i fully support the majority leader's decision to move forward with a bill that just repeals obamacare, and gives congress time as the president said, to work on a new health care plan that will start with a clean slate. you know the senate actually passed the very same bill in 2015 and sent it to president obama's desk and they should do it again. but to be clear, the senate should vote to repeal now and replace later or return to the legislation carefully crafted in house and senat

that's obamacare. now remember, president obama saying if you like your plan, you can keep your plan. those plans are gone. remember president obama said rates would drop by $2,500 a year for people. that's not what we saw. what we saw is what we're seeing continue today, "atlanta journal constitution" blue cross blue shield may charge as much as 75% increase next year. another one quoted assaying simply yikes. that's what people are facing across the country. i remember president obama was leaving office saying, forcefully defend and be proud. there's very little to be proud of here, mr. president. people all across america are having the exact same reaction as they see how much their own insurance companies are raising their rates all across the country. that's not the wonderment and happiness about obamacare that democrats said that we'd be hearing about when this was passed. the high prices are a big reason why so many people are dropping their insurance coverage. they just can't afford it. and the

get rid of obamacare it's going to be gone terminated. obamacare is a disaster. we're going to repeal and replace the horror known as obamacare. i will repeal and replace obamacare. you're going to have such great healthcare at a tiny fraction of the cost and it's going to be so easy. >> so jen, it's beginning to be so easy. you worked in the obama white house, do you think the president understood what he was promising on the campaign trail? >> no clearly not. i think you were making the point there that he promised quite a few times to repeal it. but taking something away from people, their access to healthcare, their safety net and making sure they won't be discriminated against for having preexisting conditions. healthcare is rarely easy politics. getting policy ledgislation don is difficult. there's a lot of policies on how to get healthcare and tax reform done and the problem they have is they're running out of time in the legislative calendar right now. >> scott, barack obama has been donald trump's nemesis for quite a while. he was the biggest propro-mott

obamacare." you would not think this is what they signed up for with a jammed obamacare through congress with zero bipartisan support. what the heck did you expect putting federal bureaucrats and spineless politicians in charge of the american people? of course it will be messy forever. was thethink washington place best suited in all of america to make all of the decisions about the most intimate and personal health care decisions? . find yourselves in the very sewer of political depravity were only the most depraved politicians would dare to be seen. now on the topic of health care ailure toepublicans' f round up enough votes to move forward. what do you think? caller: first of all, thank you for this program. almost all of my adult life, we did not have a federalized health care system. i think we need to go ahead and repeal obamacare and go back to what we had in the pre-obama years. i think about ted kennedy and the democrats for decades pushing for socialized medicine. we do not need it, or

obamacare has failed. and obamacare must go. [applause] president trump and i are grateful for the efforts of senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and the vast majority of republicans who worked so hard in the house and senate to keep their promise to repeal and replace obamacare. as the president said just earlier today, most republicans were loyal, terrific, and worked really hard. and there are no truer words. but last night we learned that the senate still doesn't have consensus on a bill to repeal and replace obamacare at the same time. president trump and i fully support the majority leader's decision to move forward with a bill that just repeals obamacare. and gives congress time as the president said to work on a new health care plan that will start with a clean slate. the senate actually passed the very same bill in 2015 and sent it to president obama's desk and they should do it again. to be clear, the senate should vote to repeal now and replace later or return to the legislation carefully crafted in the house and s

another obamacare rate shock. another obamacare rate shock.ear it's happening in tennessee. earlier this year at night andch humana boasted they were dropping out of the obamacare dropping out completely. signal one is less become us to willing to sell these plans. they say that to raise premiums by 42% next year. look what's happening in georgia just across the border fromss tennessee. blue cross blue shield is asking for average rate hike of 41% inc georgia. "the atlanta journal-constitutir had an article about just this last week. this is what they said. the newspaper "the atlanta journal-constitution" says blue cross might charge as much as 75% more for one plan next year, 75% more for one plan. that's obamacare. remember president obama think if you like your plan you can keep your plan. those plans are gone. remember president obama's at rates would drop by $2500 a year for people. what we saw is what we are seeing continued today. atlanta journal-constitution blue cross blue shield may charge as much as 75% more next year. they could one man saying that's a breath sti

that is obamacare's great irony. the law requires people to buy health insurance while also making it impossible to do so. for ?efn and a half years -- for seven and a half years republicans fought to expose the failures of obamacare and have pledged time and time again to repeal it. every single republican member of the senate has expressed support for repealing obamacare. most of us have made promises to our constituents to do just that, and those promises coupled with the obvious failures of obamacare are a big reason why we now -- why we now find ourselves in control of both chambers of congress and the presidency. for the last six months republicans have worked in good faith to find a path forward to both repeal and replace obamacare. the released discussion drafts attempted to bridge the divide between our more conservative and moderate members, so the products were never going to be perfect. such as the inherent nature of compromise. the draft released last week included editions to address member priorities t

we voted in 2015 to repeal obamacare. i'm in favor of the motion to proceed to repealing obamacare. and i think that's what we should do and that's what the discussion has been about. >> now, on the flipside. the democrats are coming out slamming repealing obamacare without a replacement saying millions can be put in jeopardy. >> make no mistake about it. passing repeal without a replacement would be a disaster. our health care system would implode. millions would lose coverage. coverage for millions more would be diminished. >> okay. so, from capitol hill to the white house, we're going to bring you the news as it happens. we're starting with nbc garret who has been covering every moment of this eventful day on capitol hill. let's start with this. explain to us what has been happening there today because much has happened since this morning. the repeal and replace bill effectively died and mcconnell talking about repeal and then maybe replace. moderates already coming out against that. rand paul likes that idea. just make sense of this for me, please. >> i'll try, ali. but the star

you would rather keep obamacare? >> senator paul: i think that the current system is terrible, the death spiral of obamacare is unwinding the whole system and it will continue, but i don't think republican should put their name on this. key part of obamacare and we will be blamed for the rest of the unwinding. it's about political strategy and it will not fix the problem. >> chris: senator paul, thank you, thank you for joining us, we will watch what happens on the hill, when it finally does come to a vote. it's a pleasure to talk to you. >> senator paul: thank you. >> chris: we will bring back our sunday group to discuss. plus, what would you like to ask the panel about the g.o.p.'s revised health care bill? go to facebook or twitter, @foxnewssunday, and we may use your question on the air. ♪ our first name has always been 'american.' at at&t, we employ more than 200,000 people with good-paying jobs. connecting consumers and business through mobile, internet