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But it might alienate a lot of folks in the senate, republican senators who note that their states are now very dependent on the expansion of medicaid, a lot of people in arkansas, kentucky, alaska, depend on on that kind of expanded coverage. if they take that away, especially if they take it away sooner, its a penalty for them. i dont think it makes it more likely to pass overall. >> it helps him arguably in the house, it hurts him with moderates in the senate. were hearing from sara murrays r...

>> no one likes this bill. hospitals, doctors, governors, conservatives, liberals, nonpartisan groups, and most of all, the people who will no longer have affordable health care. >> house speaker paul ryan used a powerpoint presentation to talk with the aspects conservatives should like in this legislation. ryan addressed conservatives who would love to do all of health care reform right now. >> naturally, people are saying, i would love to have this in there, i would love to have that in there....

House? >> and the sbil written is not going to pass the senate. >> this is just obamacare with a different label. >> it would appears to be the largest welfare program ever proposed by a republicans in the history of our country. >> the question here, all of those objections, shouch posturing? how much is set is in in stone? how many voices you just heard might still get behind the bill in the end? despite what they are saying now. that is the key question, there is not much margin of error here...

Bowling and undoubtedly some arm twisting. sandra? >> sandra: so curious to see how that will go. mike emanuel, thank you. here now with mark, sean duffy and jessica tarlov from bussell.com. congressman duffy, we do know that there is a little bowling and pizza taking place tonight, some convincingly taking place there. just heard him say that time is now. what does this fight look like for republicans? i think im going to go to jessica tarlov her spirit >> i think it is going to be a very diffi...

Downplay the significance of that and now they are pointing to the score and saying it was off. that is the republicans message. they expect a bad score coming out. >> the estimate that 15 million could lose health insurance with the bill. >> s&p global says 10 million. >> tal, this comes down to the president of the united states. how much political capital does he have? the art of the deal? how much do you think he is willing to put behind this bill? >> that is the big question among republica...

Justin amash has more freedom because of the nature of his district and because of his personal sort of political inclinations to act like that. but it is really remarkable that we are 24 hours in now, a little over 24 hours in, and you have justin amash, as unhappy as the democrats, for different reasons. >> justin amash saying we need to work with democrats here, we need to bring them in. >> right. you have the ama and aarp as unhappy as the club for growth. if you are appealing to a constitue...

Midterm. sunlen serfaty in washington with no word from the white house. >> expect basically to see the white house and president trump a lot more engaged in this because, quite frankly, they understand they now have a lot more arm twisting to do. my colleague jeff zeleny reports a senior administration official says they were indeed surprised by all the blowback coming from capitol hill, a lot of fierce opposition to the bill. so they are launching this full-court press in essence to motivate t...

Senate potentially, poppy and john. they are all planning to work well into the evening to hammer out these details. >> sunlen serfaty for us on capitol hill, thank you so much. the white house doing a full-court press, were told. some conservatives say it will take more than phone calls and arm twisting to win them over. they say the problem is in the plan itself. joined by cnn chief business correspondent star of "early start" christine romans. winners and losers with this new plan versus obam...

Calculations can make something like this completely fall apart. you remember i covered the beginning to the end of passing the affordable care act, obamacare, back in 2009. and that was something that took an incredible amount of arm twisting from nancy pelosi who of course was speaker of the house. she was question -- that is something that dpemts and republicans agree she is very good at. you had a president who was at the height of his popularity right after the election. those things do not...

Expansion of medicaid will be in there? that doesnt go well with tax credits. >> it better be. i get that but thats an important thing to 31 states. we have governors, republican governors who have expanded. i would like to have the waivers and have more fexibililexiblilie governors to meet that. >> better be she said. >> but the question is will she vote against a bill that guts medicate or changes the program in any way? thats the question. in a lot of ways the republican strategy is daring re...