Off the field right now, out, hes fired . Hes fired president friday night in alabama. Over the weekend protest spread across the nfl, suddenly sobs as he calls them were elsewhere. Yesterday he was tweetding, quote, sports fan should never condone players that do not stand proud for their country. Change the rules, fire the sobs. What Colin Kaepernick was doing last year, which is what the president said he had a right to do which he disagrees, now its something to speak out against. Someone must have forgotten to tell his press secretary however because she said thats not what hes doing at all. This isnt about the president being against anyone, this is about the president and millions of americans being for something, being for honoring or flag, our National Anthem and honoring the men and women who fought to defend it. This isnt about the president being against anyone she says. Listen again to the president s words and decide for yourself. Wouldnt you love to see one of these nfl owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son of a bitch off the field right now. Out, hes fired . Hes fired again, you can decide for yourself what the president meant by his remarks which he made about predominantly africanamerican players to a audience of white people in alabama. Decide for yourself what to make of what the parking light said yesterday about the racial dimension. And you see those people taking the knee when theyre playing out great National Anthem. Those people, the president said. He followed that up with a tweet raising nascar which in its entire history only had four africanamerican drivers in its premiere series. The president also tweeted with the nba, since speaking in alabama hes speeded 14 times either directly or indirectly about the players. Jim acosta joins us from the white house. Whats the latest. Reporter i understand the white house is clinging to the fantasy that everybody is out of bounds except the president. We saw that in the White House Briefing room, i tried to when he spent the better part of the weekend going after predominantly africanamerican athletes while early this morning raising nascar in the way of their fans honor and salute the flag. Hes a bit of that exchange. Is he trying to wage something of a cultural war . Not at all. Hes not talking about race, hes talking about pride in our country. What you saw yesterday were players and fans of all races joining together as americans to horn or service members. Thats what the president talks about and focuses on. The president scouted an event here in a few minutes so were going to close there. Thank so much. Couldnt get a followup question there anderson. We should point out i talked to a republican adviser who talks to this white house all the time and advises this white house. He said yes, the president is in fact waging a cultural war and winning by turning what he described as millionaire professional athletes as hillary clinton. The chef of staff as i understand weighed in on this. Reporter thats right. He made a brief comment saying he believes everybody should stand up in honor of a flag as what he described as a lousy three minutes. Earlier today we were hearing sources saying that john kelly, the chief of staff was not pleased with what happened over the weekend with what the president has done in igniting this controversy. The president registered his displeasure and put up a couple of tweets, we can show you the tweets anderson. Heres one says general john kelly agrees with my stance on nfl players on the fact they should not be disrespecting our flag or our country. Theres another one that says theres a tremendous backlash against the nfl and its players for disrespect for our country. With the hash tag stand for our anthem. Anderson, i was talking with an associate today who was saying listen, these are something that the cultural comments the president makes at rallies from time to time, he thinks about these in advance and hell talk about these comments with his aids before he goes out and makes these kind of comments publicly. And sometime his aids and his advisers and friends will say, no no, mr. President dont do that. But the president often goes with his gut and will make these kinds of inflammatory comments and i think thats what you saw over the weekend here. Keep in mind anderson we spent the better part of the day talking about the nfl and not the items you mentioned at the beginning of this newscast which is all the people suffering in puerto rico and healthcare and so on. So, he plans these things out, a lot of people raise the question is he just intentionally trying to do this to a, distract from failures on healthcare or is it to stroke racial divide . Is it about appealing to the base . He reference thothose people that what its about . I cant tell you the president s heart covering this more a year and a half. The president questioned whether barack obama was born in this country, the first africanamerican president. He described people in the White Supremacist Movement as having very fine people. Again, when i talk to advisers, aids of the president they claim and swear up and down hes not racist but they do say, they do admit privately that he does like to stoke these kinds of controversies because they do at time serve as a distraction and that bright shiny object from time to time and pulls our attention away from some of the more pressing issues out there. This is a president who is losing on healthcare tonight. He is not going to repeal and replace obamacare, something he said hes do at the beginning of his administration. All right thank you very much. Michael bennet, the political and personal side of this story overlapped for him. He say police in las vegas stopped him after he and others were fleeing, sounded like gun shots. He said the officer singled him out quote, for nothing else other than being a black man. The president says he saw no evidence that racism played in the decision. Michael, when you first heard what the president said friday night, calling players who yield son of a bitches and they should be fired, im wondering what went through your mind. A lot of things went through my mind. The first thing i did was start thinking about my mom and what she sacrificed for me as a child, what she did for me in a community and dedicated our life for attaching what she did in houston. I couldnt understand why thad come from a president. It will only shape us in the nfl we all came through together collectively and stood together and i thought that was a powerful message. Two teams, the steelers, your team, the seahawkss decided not to take the field during the National Anthem. Can you talk about what was behind your teams decision to do that . We talked for maybe two or three hours. I think it was less about donald trump and more about equality in america, things that people saw what was going on with all types of minorities and just people in general, the hate and discrimination going on right now. We felt to show your unity, on top of what happened with donald trump and more about the e qualities more of bringing our team together. We wanted to be able not to put anybody in the limelight. We made a decision as a team for what we believe in. I wonder if you think the president s comments were motivated by race or Racial Attitudes that he may have . I think it have lot to do with race, for us we want to find a way to change our community. I know a lot of people dont like it because were empowering people of color, empowering people who chose what to believe in. And just to someone who doesnt understand the idea of taking a knee during National Anthem or linking arms. To you whats the message of it, what is the purpose of it . Its about us taking a stand for equality in america all the people thats being discriminated against right now. We want to break up the issues and have a conversation. People think were attacking military, thats not true, we believe in the military and we do so many thing with the military from working with families, kids and camps, our families have been in the military. So, we love the military. All were trying to do is bring the issues up in equality, Police Brutality, all the things against minority people in america and we want to bring up those issues every single weekend. People get mad about it, what are we supposed to do, these are challenges times and we cant let our jobs define who we are. Outside of football were human beings and we want to be able to express the love for other humans. So, to people say whose disrespecting the flag and patriotic, what do you say . No i think its the opposite, we honor the thing people fight for. Honor, liberty, equality and justice for all. I wonder whether you saw Andrew Villanueva who was a former served in the military, he came out and stood during the anthem, everybody else in his team did not, im wondering what you thought of that decision. I thought, that shows of america, thats freedom to express what he believed in, thats what it really about. Whats a difference between a guy kneeling for what he believes in and the difference between him standing what he believes in. I dont think we should be judged because we believe in equality. Just like he believes in what he believe in im proud that he stood up for what he believed in and thats what its about. I saw that his jersey has become a top seller just in the last 24 hours, im wondering what you make of that. Kaepernick its still the number one selling jersey as the team of San Francisco and he hasnt played all year. Theres certain people that believe in what certain people do and other people believe in what other people do. That doesnt make it right or wrong. What about the incident of the Floyd Mayweather fight the issue it happened to me and it can happen to anybody. At the end of the day i dont hate law enforcement, i dont hate any Police Officers but i think theres people out there that will judge you on the color of your skin. I dont want people to say youre bashing every single officer, i dont believe every single officer is a bad person, but at the same time i know the issues happened to me there made me want to keep mushing toward and keep pushing forward no matter what happened and keep Going Forward. You can be scared or stand up. I understand youve been having ongoing conversations with Colin Kaepernick whose been in silence since the president s comments. Im wondering have you spoken to him since then . Yeah ive spoken to him. I wish that unity that we showed for this weekend i wish we could have shown that unity for him when he was off the team. I wish we could have become a collective group and stood up for him in moments like this. Were talking about the moment where people come together i think thats want what he wanted to help. If the president was watching tonight what would your message be . I would love to sit down with the president and talk about these issues and be able to find a way to fix them or be able to find a way to have the voice of the people, the people that dont have the voice that theyre not listening to. I cant sit here and say hes in the my president because at the end of the day he is a president of the United States. For him to say theres a privilege we shouldnt speak on what we believe in because were making munch he was a rich man too and all of a sudden hes speaking on what he believes in and so what makes him difference from us. Michael, its a pleasure talking to you. Thank you very much. Its a pleasure talking to you. Tha thank you man. Lebron james in a tweet call the president in his own words, a bomb. And he said this. The thing that kind of frus sfrated me and pissed me off a bit is the fact that hes now he used the sports platform to try to divide us. And sports in sports its so its so amazing, what sports can do for everyone no matter the shape or size or race or ethnicity or religion or whatever, im not going to let why have this platform to let one individual, no matter the power, no matter the impact that he should have or she should have ever use sport as a platform to divide us, because the people run this country not one individual. Damn sure not him. Two views from two cnn commentators, mccart sellers, and parish denard. Mccorey so the white house says the president isnt against anyone its pro flag, do you believe that . This isnt about the flag, the National Anthem, the military, in fact all of us, i know paris included but everybody whose taking the knee has the utmost respect for people who died for our freedoms. One of the freedoms that they shed blood for and fight for overseas daily is the freedom to protest and express yourself. This has fundamentally about Police Brutality and ine qualities for africanamerican people fa people face in this country every day. This knee we take is paris how do you see . I disagree with may corey on the sense the players are kneeling or refusing to acknowledge the National Anthem or the pledge of agleejs. The past 48 hours its been in protest to the President Donald Trump. We recall when Colin Kaepernick did this he didnt have the support and people and the owners running to his defense because he was standing up and in this case kneeling down or in solidarity with White Supremacy and thing of that nature. What we have seen over the past 48 hours is gross mischaracterization in my opinion. Because instead of doing what mccorey is talking about, were focusing on whether or not President Donald Trump is a racist. If we want to have a real teachable moment, if we want to have a conversation about culture, about american history, american pride, nationalism, pride in our country and president in our flag the president could be opening the door for that. Instead what we focus on is whether or not hes a racist. But paris, opening that door and having a conversations a great thing, the president is the one who called these people sons of bitches, to use the president s word, and said they should be fired, do you believe those sons of bitches, using the president s word can be fired. Is it right for the president to say . He can say what he wants, if i were president i wouldnt use the term to describe someone in that setting. But you would say when you look at cooperate businesses you have standards. The nfl wont let players wear pink in the Breast Cancer month outside of october. So they have certain standards. When you are in the private sector the ceo or the owner can make decisions about what you can and cannot do. I think if donald trump or i were the head of an organization and part of what my team or my staff needed to do or required to do was wed play the National Anthem or say the pledge of allegiance, if thats what i wanted them to do i have the right or progress tiff to do that in a private sector. The president cannot vidictate have anyone do. I think the nfl should come out and make a statement and say, if were going to play the National Anthem, which is knew, because it started in 2009, then players have to do x or y, if not theyre going to have the slippery slope argument on whether or not they can do certain things or other things. Which, in this case i believe is just offensive. Thats the issue. Let me just real quick, you can protest, you can be so upset at which i agree, with some of things that are going on especially to our community, but when you do Something Like protest in a way that is so offensive to the flag or to the soldiers veterans or to soldiers or to National Anthem you detract from the message. I hope they can find a different message to keep on us message. First of all, pariss view is not one thats new for some africanamericans. 61 of individuals during the 1960s felt like the montgomery bus and freedom writers were unpopular. Were doing the wrong thing. When Martin Luther king jr. , and others started a sitins, you think that was comfortable people were cheering them on, they were not. Protest is messy, uncomfortable. Its suppose to shock the conscious and thats what were doing. Military people, they will tell you today, they go overseas to fight so we have the freedom to protest in this country. Im glad that its making you uncomfortable paris, because now were dealing with the original descent of this country, were dealing with race. If anybody thinks that donald j. Trump went to alabama, he was in alabama talking about black athletes and calls them sons of bitches, weve heard this before, its the same tenor and tone. Weve heard this language before from white people in the deep south preferring to aerchs and especially black athletes who they feel are taking their place. This wouldnt a dog whistle its a bull horn. Were going to keep protesting. Were going to make sure that they understand there are fundamentally ine qualities in this country. Oh presentation and white supremacist run a muck and were going to shatter those systems. Paris, when you see donald trump to mccoreys point in alabama to the history of what happened there not too long ago, calling, you know referring to those people, kneeling to our anthem do you see a racial element in that . You can see a racial element in anything. Do you see it . No i dont. Only 8 of the Africanamerican Community gave him his vote, thats probably going to be the norm. I think what you saw in alabama, and you know very well that they take their football very seriously, was a president talking to the base and got them raled up about an issue that they knew they were going to care about, which is the american flag, which is the National Anthem, which is pride in country, thats what that was about and they knew so about raling up debates . About an issue that is a very very important issue. And again, mccorey i agree with you. I wish the president would not have use that had phrase, son of a bitch, but i say this we should be just as upset when we hear rappers and other individuals refer to women in that regard. If youre going to criticize one lets be consistent across the board. Is it appropriate to use the flag that people have fought and died for to ral up the base . Again, what i was saying was he used it as a point for a base that was going to respond in a way to raise awareness about this issue. So yes you said to ral up the base. Because they were doing something so disrespectful the president knew by raising this issue with them that would get attention. Right because he was using an issue about Colin Kaepernick, that was last season, hes not even employed as an Football Player because of of what he did, so the idea the president would reach back and to bring this up in front of this particular audience to rile them all, as you say, doesnt that seem inappropriate . Isnt that using the flag . September 9th a nfl player who happened to be caucasian walked out and tweeted about him wanting to stand for the National Anthem was is going to right pat tilmans name on his shoe. This is not an issue thats somehow coming back mind set of the people. I think its important moment for the president to make okay so, to use this about riling up the base . I mean it was about riling up the base. It was about the number one currency we have in this country right now. Its not gold or silver t number one currency we have in this country is race and the president used that. He knew he did and where he was using it, yeah it raled up his base. The irony in this discussion anderson, people take more offense to a knee while were singing a National Anthem than they took to a knee in the back of freddy gray wen he was murdered in baltimore. You think about the fact that paris denard and others sat here over the last two weeks and defended confederate monuments up throughout the south and country saying they should be able to stay there, many of these same people in alabama fly the Confederate Flag. So youre telling me is that something is wrong with me and im not patriotic for actually protesting which is my First Amendment right but yet you woont to glorify memorialize treason. We have to begin to deal with this issue of race in a fashion, thats why im glad that you had mr. Bennet on before me because people need to see these are real athletes and real people. Lebron james goes home every day, a father to two sons and one daughter and he has to make sure he leaves this country for them as brown kids better than when he inherited. If they can write anythinger on lebrons fence think what they can do for poor black people like me and paris. And they did do it. I i marched from charles son South Carolina to colombia, South Carolina you can miss me with that argument. Im not talking about the Confederate Flag im talking about confederate monuments. Nine people died sod that flag could come down. Do not dear pabas tar diaz that. Im pointing out the facts. Colin kaepernick did this over a year ago, i missed all the owners and teams standing in solidarity then. Im saying right now people are doing this because its political expedient to go against the president. 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I think that hes using this as a wedge issue. First of all, i mean i dont know why on gods green earth the president of the United States has time to or wants to wage cultural wars. Yes, the issue is about race, the issue is about race in this country and Race Relations in this country and more specifically structure inqualities that we had. You had environmental in east chicago, indiana. Kids punished because of of the neighborhoods theyre born into. Trayvon martin, thatmileperhour rice, sandra bland, no conviction for their murders. You have all of these systemic issues that leads people to kneel. I do want to point out something that paris was kind of right on in his own way. What you saw yesterday was observers coming down to the field. You have owners like Daniel Snider and jerry jones who donat donated 1 million to the president in his campaign. But when he they werent looking arms with anybody. When he was talking about and picking on a the Washington Post reporter for being disabled. When he was talking about grabbing women by their private parts. The last goes on and on. Between them and ray lewis and jim brown, its all good and dandy but were out here protesting systemic injustices they were protesting their feelings being hurt. Paris, i want you to be able to respond. Yeah, you know what, listen, i think he makes excellent points as to why some of the people, especially Colin Kaepernick takes the knee. My only point is, the act of taking the knee or not putting your hand over your heart or not standing for the National Anthem or the pledge is disrespectful and it takes away from the original message. Look, when muhammad ali was upset about his injustice and tossed his medal into the river where he lived that was a medal he earn requested fought for. When you do this about the flag, whether you do this against the National Anthem youre doing this to something that people bled and died for hold on. Muhammad ali was a we can rewrite history, he was a dispaized figure in the United States when he refused to serve in the war. And years later muhammad ali came to the george w. Bush white house, stood there and allowed the republican president of the United States to put the highest honor around his neck on behalf of a grateful country. But its very easy in retrospect to look at protest in the past and say, i would have taken part in that, i wouldve done, that was the right thing to do at the time it is dedispiesed. You made the comment about 60 people didnt think there should be a march out of washington. They werent disrespecting the national flag. The argument that muhammad ali was disrespecting the flag. Right now were not rewriting history were whitewashing it. Muhammad ali was a decembispies figure. He decided he wasnt going to vietnam because he felt like it was an unjust war. They took everything from him. He had to earn it back. My father cleveland sellers, they took months away from his life, he charge tried and convicted and went to federal prison for that. There are people that paid an ultimate price. Do not give me we are disrespecting our country because were not. What were trying to do is make it a more perfect union. There are people in this country who have given a check for liberty, justice, and freedom and its been marked insufficient funds. What we have to do is make sure that we understand, i dont want anything from anderson cooper, i dont want anything from any white person in this country to be plainly plainly blunt. But what i do want is an opportunity for equality. I dont want to bring anderson down, i just want to have the same Playing Field. Thats all were asking more, thats why people take a knee. All the president is saying when youre on the Playing Field dont disrespect the flag of the National Anthem. If you want to protest dont do so in such a way to the but paris. If it had been a white person that kneeled paris, you would have been making that argument against muhammad ali back then and yet your praising george w. Bush for giving him no no what i was actually saying was muhammad ali came to the white house because he understood that the honor was not about president george w. Bush doing it it was about an entire nation, it was about the presidency that nation dispiesed him decades before that. He had to earn that back. Bakry i want to ask you, you spoke eloquently before about the need for a conversation and we all talk about the need for a conversation of race in thisically and we only talk about it when it has been a racial situation that brings it to the forefront. It should take place not just when theres a headline about it. Do you really think though that President Trump is adding to that conversation in a positive way by calling people, you know referring to them as those people who are refusing to stand during our National Anthem and calling them sons of bitches . Again, for the third time anderson, i do not think the president used the right term to describe the people who did not stand for the National Anthem. When you look at the action taken today and the president ial memorandum that talk about computer science. In that 200,000 grant for superintendents across the School Districts its specific language that says you must look into supporting africanamerican children and women children how many tweetsz that the president send about that today . You know what im not controlling the president s twitter. But i know sandra huckleby talked about it and a lot of it doesnt seem like the the president s not talking about it. He signed that president ial memorandum today. My point is this, that is a way for us to talk about what the administration is actually going to do. We can talk about the flag, which we should. President obama as we know about the redskins because he felt that was something disrespectful. And candidate trump criticized the president for pining about that saying he should have more important thing to talk about. We have to leave it. There. Ahead well take you to puerto rico islands of americans is in trouble of a hit from maria. They need help, Officials Say they need it right now. Cnns bill weir is south of sa juan. Next. I wanti did my ancestrydna and where i came from. And i couldnt wait to get my pie chart. The most shocking result was that im 26 native american. I had no idea. Just to know this is what im made of, this is where my ancestors came from. And i absolutely want to know more about my native american heritage. Its opened up a whole new world for me. Discover the story only your dna can tell. Order your kit now at ancestrydna. Com. Whats happening right now to more than a few Million People that live in puerto rico, no election, desperate need of food, water, medication. More than 95 of wireless cell sites are out of service, people are having trouble just getting in touch with your family members. Weir is there, heres what hes found. Reporter it is so hard to move around this island because puerto rico is a tangled mess of shattered trees and down power lines and endless gas lines where the desperate can wait half a day under the blazing sun for a few precious gallons. In the south of capital it looks like a bomb went off. Once lush green hill tree side had no choice but to shelter in place and pray. This camper is tossed like a toy, diana and her family were huddled in their home across the street. How are you, how is life are you are you surviving . Reporter i thank god im still alive she tells me. Its hard to tell from the road but the back end of this house is built on concrete stilts driven to the highly side. Imagine the anxiety as maria picked up strength. Diana inside, hes caring for inzero lent husband. She moved the whole family into the living room. They hear the crash of this power tower go down on the neighbors roof. Water coming in through the shutters, shes trying to keep it up. At one point she tells me they prepared to die together. Which is scarier, combat in vietnam or Hurricane Maria . Translator the hurricane is worse. Reporter miguel survived a combat tour in cam doed ya and now deana worries about the last vile of his insulin. Yet with text book hospitality she takes the time to make us coffee. A few miles up the road, more kindness and much more misery. Heres a drone shot of this area before maria and here it is today. This is what a category 4 hurricane will do to wood construction. The roof, who knows what happened to the roof. Its amazing the walls held the way they did. Trophies earned by the grand kids still stand in a room with no roof. He was held up with his whole family in a local church and they all survived. Now he has little left but his faith. How would you describe peoples deputies ration . Looting, anger. Reporter there has been looting the mayor tells me. When it comes to the fear of the people in this town were saddened because were still looking for people. As american im wondering how puerto rican feel about being in americans in this. Do you think theyll come help you . Yes, he said. We will move forward with the help of the United States. What they can give us well receive with a lot of love. Thank you. Reporter youre welcome. Thank you very much. Reporter were thinking of you. Bill weir joins us now from san juan. It seems like a lot of people you met, obviously youre strong in the face of it, how bad can it get given the outlook and the difficulties getting around . Reporter it can be so bad. Dont let the resolved toughness of the puerto rican people deceive you. Theyre grateful to be alive, they dont want to create a bother but we are at the brink of a major humanitarian crisis. This is so much worse than irma, the storm in texas because were a thousand miles away from miami. The only way to get aid in here is by boat or plane. There are search and rescue efforts that havent scratched the surface of whats out there in the central part of this island. 3 million fellow americans, they fought in wars, they manufactured most of your pharmaceuticals down here. And now they need help. Its extraordinary were glad youre there. Thank you very much. Such devastation in that island, as bill said, large parts of the island very difficult for reporters to get to and certain relief efforts. Well continue to span out to many parts of puerto rico on the days ahead. In the past few days the president s tweeted more than a dozen times about sports and zero times about puerto rico. When asked what message that send the secretary had this to say. When it comes to puerto rico the president has sent people to puerto rico today, theyre on the ground to assess the damage. Weve done Unprecedented Movement in terms of federal funding to provide for people in puerto rico. Well continue to do so and continue to do everything we can possibly under the federal government. Joining me now from san juan, the governor of puerto rico. Governor thanks for being with us. Did you hear the administration saying the president has done movement in terms of funding to provide that for puerto rico. Are you seeing an impact of that on the ground yet . Yes, anderson we have had great collaboration with the federal government, particularly with fema. The administrator was over here today seeing the damages. Of course, this is an unprecedented situation and were going to need an unprecedented response. Our petition is to continue. The next step is for congress to act and to let them know we are proud u. S. Citizens. When other citizens were in need puerto rico was a base of support. Gave others shelter, food and had them go back to their home. So, in terms of where things stand right now, what is the greatest need . What is the greatest need, well, of course there are several things. Number one, food, water, and fuel are some of the needs. But, we have plenty of them we just need to distribute them appropriately. Right now, because of the storm, this is a supply chain effort, we dont have as many bus drivers. We dont have as many operators in the gas station because some of them are still stuck. What weve been doing is assessing where they are, making sure they get to the operation stations, making sure they have Police Escort getting them to different places so we can get food, water and supplies to those that mostly need them. The lack of electricity obviously causes huge issues for you. Do you have any better sense how long its going to take to restore it and is there any help for people until it can be restored . Well, the devastation has been enormous anderson, and this is something that the fellow viewers have to understand. This is an unprecedented event. Literally two category 5 storms came to puerto rico in the span of two weeks, the devastation of the infrastructure has been severe. We already have weak infrastructure in puerto rico, now after the storm i can tell you that the transmission lines have been devastated, severe infrastructure damage, and in some areas of puerto rico t going to take months to repair. Governor appreciate your time. Coming up the latest on the healthcare bill. A helping hand. A shoulder to lean on. Us is all of us. Different looks. Different voices. One sacred bond. But right now, that bond is fraying. Where do we find Common Ground . How do we get back to us . The y fills the gaps. And bridges our divides. Its a place where we can become us again. Now, more than ever, the y needs your support. Because where theres a y, theres an us. For a better us, donate to your local y today. Top of the hour well bring you the bipartisan debate on health care. Just tonight republican senator Susan Collins said shell vote know. Fill mattingly joins us from capitol hill. What do we know about what god collins to no . The interesting thing about collins is its 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 doing it. When it came to the Graham Cassie proposal itself, she made the point just because you can dolgts do this in a partnisan fashion now, whats going to keep it going a couple years from you from now . Preexisting conditions has been a concern for her. Its been a way to cut back on those. It underscores inside the republican conference, ideologically they are not unified right now. Does graham believe its over . Hes still trying and working. Its still clear, phone calls are still being made. But the difference on Lindsey Graham from today and the lasting couple days is instead of guaranteeing there would be a vote, saying they would get to 50 votes, when he was asked whether they would be a vote, he said i dont know. Hes still working on it but its clear if you talk to anybody, theres no Clear Pathway forward. The numbers right now just dont add up. Fill mattingly, thank you. Joining us is rick santorum. Also kirstin powers. Senator, with collins a no vote, is this fight over. Not by a long shot. Whether this week this bill is going to pass, its looking less likely, but im not even 100 sure of that. What i can tell you is that i think whats been determined today, theres broad support among republicans for this approach that does two things. Number of one another, block grants, a cap grant on medicaid which bill clinton proposed years ago. And the second thing it does is it takes the money from the Affordable Care act, puts it in a block grant and says, state, you deal with this problem instead of federal government and gives them resources to do it, dividing the money on a per capita basis across the countr. These are things that used to bipartisan. When you hear susan colin, i get it, she would like it to be bipartisan. But these ideas used to bipartisan, and now we need a little bit more time to drill that message through. Kirstin do you see any chance of this Going Forward . Not in the immediate. I would be interested to know, senator, what they could do to move along a Susan Collins or john mccain. John mccain obviously has complained hes upset with the process. He does think it should be more bipartisan and, bringing amendments, and hes, not movable on that. Its slowing the growth of it which is a cut in her eyes. How do you move these people . Rand paul doesnt seem movable and ted cruz says he might not vote for this. How would you move all those people . Look at rand paul. Rand he suggested that he vote for the medicaid per capita caps, but that he had some concerns. If you think about from a logical standpoint its unsustainable and puts it on a budget, puts on a cap. What we do with obamacare is the same thing, its open ended and puts it in a block grant with a cap. So he can say that i like one but not the other, but from a logical point of view, they in a sense do the same thing. I think theres some room, particularly with ted cruz, with rand paul and others to work on this. Whether we can get that done this week, theres still a couple other votes that are unsure. Again, im not sure that are necessarily decided against us. So bottom line is, again, its getting tight this week, but overall i think this is the bill thats most likely to be the bill that replaces obamacare whether its now, in a couple months or six months. I think this will be the bill. Senator santorum, Chuck Schumer a while back at the last effort had said if republicans came to them, seems like that he had couple preconditions for any kind of bipartisan effort on the democrats side in essentially not doing away with obamacare, just trying to fix it. Is that for any republican a nonstarter. You cant run election after election saying youll repeal obamacare and then make a tweak and keep it in place. At the bottom is if you talk to senator alexander and others on the health committee, theyll say the democrats will say theres nothing wrong, and thats not going to happen. The president said hes not going to sign continuing payments. The speaker have said theyre not going to pass a bill. So theres going to be nowhe mo to prop this up. 5 billion of taxes on 90,000 ploishz a employers are going to go out if you didnt provide insurance. Now youll see a whole new wave of taxes that have not been assessed before. Youre going to see Insurance Markets that are going to be unstable because youre not providing federal support for them anymore, and i think maybe in a couple months there might be a prime time to come back and look at this bill. Its clear the republicans havent been able to do this given the seven years of campaigning on this. Yes. Before you a make a campaign promise, you should probably have a policy you can offer up. And i think thats been the problem, and they dont have enough ideological cohesion to agree on anything. The fight over obamacare starts right now. [ applause ] live from washington, im telling you jake tapper. Im dana bash. We have breaking news from congress as the state of obamacare hangsz in the balance. Support in the republicans last best hope for repeal. Now appears to be disintegrating. Susan collins said she will vote against it. Rand paul told me that he is also a firm no. Of cour