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Backwards with this. it sounds like they spent the better part of the day figuring out what they can get votes for. >> around lunchtime they started. >> what will you vote for. if you do this, you lose this. this is the wildebeest of legislation. its parts of all sorts of things that will satisfy some that it is an obamacare repeal and not satisfy others. it takes certaina things away from obamacare. the mandate for individuals to get insurance and the mandate for corporations with more than 50 ...

Conversation groups. up and down the aisles. >> worth noting, john mccain came to the floor a week after being diagnosed with cancer and gave a stirring speech about how we should revert to regular order and have debates and committees work up a bill the way its supposed to go. garrett brings up the interesting point he said unless he gets assurances, the house will not simply go with this and they will allow it to be debated and changed and he wont support it. we dont know what he is doing now....

Corporations with more than 50 employees to provide insurance. now what that means is the insurance companies got into obamacare on the understanding there would be lots of people insured, and thats how they could cover everybody for preexisting conditions. thats what is being taken way tonight. so what youre taking away is the mechanism by which universal health care can take place. but youre not replacing it with anything. the danger here, as you said, is there are a local whol le lot o senato...

But this is all we have seen thus far. it is not an expression of opinion for people in our line of work to call a little attention to the disgust with what were seeing. ali velshi joins us in the studio. >> its crazy. why does the senate, a governing body, a legislature need to do this? find the bill you want. get to it the way youre supposed to get to it. arrange to have the votes for it. and then have a vote. they have completely gone backwards with. this it sounds like theyve spent the bette...

Thats the committee process developing legislation, health care bill would come out of the health committee and so on. but this moment came as you heard the majority leader say, a disappointing moment. that is an under statement for the republican party that holes the white house, the house, and the senate. there will be no movement forward on health care. lawrence odonnell whose hour this normally is on reair after airing initially on the east coast is with us by telephone. lawrence, sum up wha...

On, because theyve never sold it to the three constituencies. ali talked about two. i talk about three there. those whoed a expanded coverage. those who receive financial assistance. and those who did see their plans disrupted through higher premiums or changed plans. republicans have never sold each of those three constituencies on their plan. they havent even been able to sell their colleagues on capitol hill. thats why theyre in the pickle theyre in tonight. >> ive just been handed this from ...

Dont get a deal and what happens tonight does become law. >> its an industry thing in the small relatively small industry of people who have been minority and majority leaders and speakers of the house. boy, do they hate to pull a piece of legislation. we have seen it happen in the house over health care. we may see it happen here tonight. this is way too much talk and lack of activity happening for after 1:00 a.m. it is now already the last friday in july. this is the united states senate busti...

Debate encapsulated. he used the phraseology that is almost swear words on the right. socialized medicine. european health care. his remarks when distilled amounted to we have a 52-seat majority, but could not hold it. could not produce it. minority over to you. senator schumer has gone along with the john mccain suggestion to return to the kind of catch all euphemism in the senate of regular order. people know what that means. thats the committee process developing legislation, health care bill...

Man of the hour. john mccain. i think congressman jaly is right and ali is right. jonathan martin said on twitter, news: two arizona republicans with direct knowledge tell me they now anticipate cane will vote no on skinny. we apologize on behalf of the elected representatives that anything has been labeled skinny. it is a piece of legislation that potentially affects millions of americans. garrett, can you underscore any of this? >> the other thing im watching now if this is true and maybe its ...

They will actually allow it to be debated and changed. he wont support it. and then we dont know what he is doing now. he may now may be the linchpin on this legislation. >> ron klain is with us. and were happy to have him with us, especially at this late hour here on the east coast. ron is a veteran democrat around the democratic politics for a long time. chief of staff to al gore among others he has worked closely with, including a couple of presidents here and there. can you believe what were...