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Assurances and arm twisting. im told that even this morning, president trump, vice president pence, on the phone to on the fence members, trying to get them across the line. one source saying the president would tell members how well he did in their state and why it would be effective to vote with him on this, as the vice president ran through details. dont look past what senator mitch mcconnell was doing, behind the scenes, making the promises to his members, that they would get opportunities t...

Vocal about the senate approach to health care. we are going to ask him about the overnight vote that was a "no" ." this involved a lot of late nights and arm-twisting. >> bill: 10 minutes past the hour now. people getting a good dose of trump last night in ohio. >> some people say he doesnt act presidential. i can be more presidential than any president that is ever held his office. >> bill: well at rekindling the heat of that campaign help get the presidents agenda moving? >> shannon: plus inv...

Obviously repeal it. when you have the disagreements within the party, how do you solve that? >> thats what im asking. >> mitch mcconnell has to do some arm twisting. he doesnt have the will to do that. a guy that was not fond up and had no use for harry reid, he didnt have these problems. he kept everybody inside the corral when it comes to issues like, this. >> the reason is because democrats are collectivists. they do group things. obamacare says dough it, they do it. republicans are individu...

And rob portman of ohio, dean heller of nevada. those are the critical votes here. and this has all been a debate around the sequencing of how they would then try to debate the repeal and replace that would come up after they were able to proceed to this house bill. mcconnells calculation has been, look, if he can get the bill to the floor, its going to change the arm twisting and not necessarily wipe the slate clean but it looks like well see him here on the senate floor to talk about this. >> ...

Arms and twist the republican caucus to hold together. theyre going into a lunch with vice president pence. there will be a lot more arm twisting there. senator mccain is flying whoer to provide what could be a critical vote. joining me now is bernie sanders. i wanted to give you a chance to respond to the republican leader to the majority leader on his verdict on obamacare and what the vote should be. >> well, andrea, no question that obamacare is far from perfect but in mcconnells own statemen...

♪ backpack, check. thats the family taking care of business. awesome notebook! check. but who takes care of them? office depot / office max. this week, these composition books are just 25 cents each. ♪ taking care of business mitch mcconnell and republican senators along with vice president pence are right now meeting over lunch, some final arm twisting there by mcconnell and the white house ahead of this afternoons first critical vote on whether the health care bill will even get to the s...

Bottom line, nicolle, i have been talking to officials here. and effectively asking them the question is the president going to get more engaged in this fight? hes sort of taken this back seat role. he has been working the phones and trying to do some arm twisting that way behind the scenes. i have been told that just as we saw in the final days of the house legislation, the president will get more engaged but as you and i know this legislation all but died several days ago. this is really an at...

His legal teams efforts to undermine the credibility of the special counsel. >> im not aware of those details and thats something you would have to ask his legal team. im not part of that process. >> on health care, what does the president want the senate to vote on next week? >> i think he wants to -- as mark short stated earlier this week and as weve repeated many times before, the presidents preference is to repeal and replace obamacare and we havent been shy or quiet about that and those int...

Get kim jong-un separated from the news in north korea. tensions with key european allies, whats the next chapter with vladimir putin? health care, tax reform, infrastructure, all in shambles at the moment. and many would say on all of these issues, could use a little presidential leadership. could use a little presidential head-butting, arm-twisting, deal-making. supposed to be the signature of the trump administration. if your job was dependent on one thing, keeping the president happy, can yo...

Those senators who can be very vulnerable, so a not so veiled threat during that lunch. >> interesting map of the seating chart, in that senator heller would be seated next to the president, given everything that we know. jason carroll, thank you so much for setting it up. lets discuss all of the above and more. kevin sherden is with me. hes the former senior adviser from mitt romneys presidential campaign and also with us, adam gentleson, former communications director for the retired democrati...