and senator bill katz of louisiana expressed openness to the deal this morning. of course, the architect behind graham/cassidy. the last republican attempt at a major health care overhaul that ended up falling through. joining me now is senator cassidy. good evening, sir. hey, chuck. how are you? all right. i am good. let me start with this morning, that same event we quoted senator alexander at. you were also there. at the time you said you were inclined to support the compromise temporary deal but still reviewing the bill. i take it you ve had more time to review the bill. where s are you now on this deal? frankly i haven t reviewed it. my staff hasn t spoken to me. many thing ice like abos i like bill. in the interim, the president came out against, paul ryan out against. some things are in there they find objectionable. i ll find that out tonight. just spoke to lamar alexander who is calling the president asking whatever his objection