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Get votes to replace obamacare. heres our current count here at cnn. 22 house republicans against it. if theres one more no vote, one more no, its over, right? not because they havent voted. one more no, its over. how bad does it look for the president that they cant get health care again? >> i was thinking, we went through this, austin will recall, under obama. you remember, austin, to get obamacare passed, you had to twist some arms and get to that 218 vote you needed in the house and the numb...

Money from going towards construction of the presidents controversial border wall. >> for the third day in a row we will see the vice president here on capitol hill, mike pence. he is going to be doing some private arm twisting of the hold-outs on the health care legislation. the goal of the administration here is a self-imposed deadline, 24 to 48 hours to try to get the votes necessary before the house goes to another recess. that starts on friday. its an 11-day recess. so far house speaker pau...

Ready to vote tomorrow. i assume hes going to announce a vote is tomorrow. >> maybe they dont have the numbers. maybe they have the numbers now. >> they had two or three votes left to go. after all the arm twisting thats going on the last six hours or go. maybe they got those two or three holdouts. >> even then, its sort of like all this is for what. to save your political capital in the house to maybe one day do a tax bill. its not actually going to ge anywhere in senate. way too many gop senat...

Republicans say $15 billion to plus up defense, a big priority for them. theyre calling that a win. the people that are really going to be against this when it does come to a vote will be conservatives. lindsey graham called this, said that republicans got their clocked cleaned in this negotiation. very little us is pence here. were still waiting on the debate. when they do have this vote on the floor, a lot of arm twisting. it will be interesting to watch from up in the balcony. >> well check i...

Over the place. he said the pre-existing conditions were protected in the bill. they werent. hes got to scramble to fight within his own party to full the promise. >> thats okay. getting the legislation that the american people can be proud of is bipartisanship. and president trump figuring this out as he goes along is okay. >> jon: hes done some arm twisting on the bell. dan, noelle, thanks. judge andrew napolitano said

Replace obamacare and now the majority of the house, the senate and the white house, there is no excuse for our base. you have to get the bill moving. frankly, i think they should be staying in there all weekend. they should be there at night. they should be twisting arms harder than they are. now, when it gets to the senate, it is anybodys guess on what happens. but in terms of paul ryan keeping the majority, hes got to deliver this to our base. >> but they have legitimate problems. not only do...

>> sandra: house republicans say theyre closer to reaching an agreement on a bill to replace obama care but still dont know if they can pass it. peter ducey live on capitol hill. how close are gop leaders to being able to schedule a repeal and replace vote >> reporter: just a few minutes ago kevin mccarthy walked by here and i asked him how close are you getting on healthcare to a vote? he said very close. so it does sound like leadership has a little bit more arm twisting to do. some prominent ...

Measure. there has been serious arm-twisting here on capitol hill with g.o.p. leaders in the house. theyre trying to get republican members lined up behind this american health care act. they still dont have the votes and it does seem like theyre trying to add to their tally one member at a time. a conservative congressman says hes a "yes," but under duress. since there are not more votes today, the vote will be on this short-term budget measure which may get some democratic support because it d...

Would absolutely protect pre-existing conditions. most americans when theyre 55, 60, they have a pre-existing condition. the idea that if you have any possible break in coverage, you now cant get coverage or be charged such extraordinary fees that you could never secure coverage. this is a complete violation of the promises the trump administration put forward. you have a very terrible plan made worse. and its a bad vote no matter how you frame it for my republican colleagues. >> are you pretty ...

Presented itself to try to remove the weapons. >> but we didnt see a lot of the arm twisting, we saw the primetime address. i think the bottom line is looking back it was a mistake not to launch those missiles even without congressional authorization because it sent the wrong message to the people in syria and elsewhere. >> i believe that launching a responsive strike to a syria chemical weapons attack was appropriate in 2013 and it would have been appropriate in 2013 and was appropriate today. ...