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Momentarily. lets go back up to capitol hill. ryan nobles is standing by. hes our correspondent up there. weve been reporting, ryan, on some of these nos turned yess and now we know of the two nos, so they cant lose anymore, they, being the republicans. >> reporter: thats right. everyone forward has to be a yes and from what were understanding from the senators weve been talking to, it looks like senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is going to get there. it may require vice president mike pen...

Bare minimum of 50 votes. >> on this voe the yeas are 50 and the nays are 50. the senate being equally divided, the vice-president votes in the affirmative. >> reporter: vice-president pence casting the tie-breaking vote to start debate on the health care bill. >> im extremely happy that we got this vote. this is -- they say, if you look higs torquely, this is the tough vote to get. truly great health care for the american people, we look forward to that. this was a big step. >> reporter: protes...

Prepared to cast this ballot in the affirmative. so this was a lot of work on behalf of mitch mcconnell and his republican caucus, and essentially, what he has done here is hes promised all these republican senators the opportunity here over the next couple of days to hash this thing out and come up with some sort of a plan that they can then take to conference with the house republicans and just continue this process along to get to a bill that they can all feel comfortable with, ultimately pas...

Of the united states has taken aim at his own attorney general. yesterday he was beleaguered. now hes weak. the presidents new communication director, scaramucci, said this morning that he believed that it was going to be necessary for sessions to go and then said he didnt want to speak for the president on this matter. it appears to be a cat and mouse game between the attorney general who was the presidents first major supporter in the united states senate, first to endorse him. now appears to ...

That yes are 50, senate being equally divided, the vice president votes in the affirmative and of the motion agreed to. >> now we move forward towards truly great health care for the american people. >> bret: it was a big day and didnt know whether it was going to happen or not, but the u.s. senate did move forward with vice president pants breaking the tie and senator mccain making that emotional return ton two to proceed. two republican senators voted no. senator susan collins and senator lisa...

So ill continue on have a plan a, but always, you have to be prepareded with plan b for life and thats what im trying to do, to work across the aisle to solve this for the millions of americans that we call neighbors and friends and people we represent in congress. >> so lets talk about, as bee move across the aisle in another issue and not health care because president trump had tweeted this afternoon possibly over the battle over russian sanks and its very sad that republicans even some that w...

Jr. made more important for the fact that charles grassley, senator from iowa, said he is sending a letter from donald trump jr. asking him to come to capitol hill and testify before the senate. then there was an exchange yesterday between lindsey graham and christopher wray, president trumps nominee for the fbi when lindsey graham said well if somebody was to get an offer of a meeting like that, should they have brought it to the attention of the fbi to which christopher wray replied in the aff...

Putin to try to get what he wants. well have to see. this is the first meeting. this is really the first time that we will see donald trump react to president putin directly. well see how successful that is. >> john: the g-20 summit, is it sort of a chance for a do-over with the european leaders? for president trump. >> yeah. i think youll definitely see the european leaders looking for a reset after the trip before, at nato, that didnt go quite as well. well probably look to have the president ...

Willing to? >> the first -- the first part of that, can they? yes, it appears that potentially they can. will they? for the moment it appears again in the affirmative there. if we just look at this sort of sequence of events here, secretary of state rex tillerson has a phone conversation with his opposite number that the kremlin, the foreign minister there in russia and according to the kremlin the issue of chemical weapons does come up. the next thing we hear is a condemnation from the kremlin ...

Have medicaid coverage. now the qualifications for medicaid are high. you have to have a low income, and it only applies to certain people. states are also themselves looking at ways to cut people from medicaid rolls. its hard to imagine a scenario where that wouldnt change. if they were to move more people from medicaid on to private insurance or if people on medicaid who are unemployed then become employed, you could see a scenario where uninsurance rates wouldnt change. that depends on so man...