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Tomorrows health care bill. president trump has pulled out all the stops to move all the republican members from a "no" to a "yes." is there anything happening for tomorrow? >> there were some members of the freedom caucus here and legislative affairs, as you know, dana, you know far more about this that i do. working of the phones, trying to wrangle as many votes as they can. focus on the hill believe the arm-twisting will go on until they decide to put it to a vote because they have the votes ...

Heres the president again. >> i happen to like a lot senator rand paul. i do. i look forward to working with him so we can get this bill passed in some form so that we can pass massive tax reform which we cant do until this happens. >> he said well get the bill passed in some form to get to taxes. its pretty clear to the president and his supporters its tax reform he really wants to get to he just has to get through obamacare repeal and replace first and serious arm-twisting a packed crowd in a ...

The president says its going forward. the leadership suggests it will go forward. behind the scenes do they look like theyre sweating this one? >> they have been calm until a few hours ago. and on the floor the arm twisting was starting and you can see theyre moving a little more quickly from person to person. but i think theyre -- >> have you been offered anything? how is your arm? >> some of my colleagues were flown on air force one back to kentucky yesterday. i didnt even get an offer to ride...

To get down? ic 216 is ti think 216 is the n. >> i dont know if items possible. i dont want to say never on capitol hill, but it could be possible. but they have a steep climb. i dont know why are theyre playing the game of chicken for thursday. a lot of people will end up in difficulting situations. to your point about being in electoral trouble over this vote, before i came over here to speak with you, i counted, i have 275 constituents who asked me for oppose this bill and only four who asked...

We need to keep work until we can bring down rates and get people more choices. >> i assume if it passes the house and makes to the senate there is a lot of pressure on those three senators because if they vote no, then its over and that is of course the warning that president trump laid on the republicans in the house today. how do you do your arm twisting behind closed doors? do you point that out to them? >> well, you know, senators are mard la hard to arm twist. but if they see that they are...

Perhaps arm-twisting with members of the more conservative branches of the republican party who have pushed for changes. we also know that they will get word on some of those changes tonight. what will they be? we will scrutinize them as soon as they come out. this is what president donald trump loves to do. he loves to get out and speak with the people, do these rallies, it is not lost on anyone that this is the home of rand paul, who has pushed back very hard against this bill and a number of ...

Senate. >> i think theres still a question in the house. you have more than two dozen members that expressed opposition or strong reservation to this you talk to members of the republican members and they wouldnt have scheduled a vote for thursday if they thought there wasnt chance for it to go down and i still think theres arm-twisting and one thing speaker ryan said is he wants president trump to be a closer. thats what hes hoping for this week and there was interesting news over the weekend o...

Do enough in terms of medicaid and aging people. lets pop up some of the wording on the screen. governors from ohio, michigan, new mexico, arkansas. it provides almost no new flexibility for states does. not insure the resources necessary to make sure no one is left out and shift significant new costs to states. you said there were more people who wanted to sign this letter? >> no doubt about that. the dirty little secret, a lot of governors, republican and democrat that are not for the bill. th...

Do enough in terms of medicaid and aging people. lets pop up some of the wording on the screen. governors from ohio, michigan, new mexico, arkansas. it provides almost no new flexibility for states does. not insure the resources necessary to make sure no one is left out and shift significant new costs to states. you said there were more people who wanted to sign this letter? >> no doubt about that. the dirty little secret, a lot of governors, republican and democrat that are not for the bill. th...

Do enough in terms of medicaid and aging people. lets pop up some of the wording on the screen. governors from ohio, michigan, new mexico, arkansas. it provides almost no new flexibility for states does. not insure the resources necessary to make sure no one is left out and shift significant new costs to states. you said there were more people who wanted to sign this letter? >> no doubt about that. the dirty little secret, a lot of governors, republican and democrat that are not for the bill. th...