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Hard decision. they didnt do it. even though in a world where lindsey graham says the bill is kind of a fraud and votes for it and still couldnt get it done. >> report ju>> reporter: mcconnm knew this didnt look good. knew the process was rnts abouting to be treated welt chl gave democrats a lot of openings for attacks. but in their minds it was the only way to actually move forward with repeal. if youre going to try toe get 60 votes, democrats are never going to come on bort. well you dont have...

This would eke by. what john mccain did last night or this morning is what he always does. hes a maverick, but whats interesting about this too he always telegraphed he may not vote for this. he said time and time again, look, guys, theres no meat on the bones here. this should be regular order. this should go to the committee process. lets make sure this is a really robust repeal and replace but there was no replace. so john mccain in many ways was very consistent from the legislative stand poi...

He was very disappointed, he said the proposals that he wanted to incorporate into the bill to help his home state of arizona, he said he would try to do that if they got the bill to the floor. that is one of the reasons he voted to start the debate. that dramatic moment earlier this week when he came back to do just that. one of the things that he said, he wanted to try and get this into committee and go through the regular committee process to mark up this bill, write the bill in committee and...

Attorney general jeff sessions was here and promised to bring millions of dollars and more, it hasnt happened yet, the hope is that with the presidents visit, that will soon come, the officers that are seated behind me that will be seated behind the president are those who took part in ms-13 covert operations and arrest, so a big thank you from the president it today. a >> jon: on long island, where the president is about to speak. thank you. >> melissa: republicans coming up short again and the...

Pre premiums in minnesota have gone on 55%. the state had to bail out the exchange created by obamacare. we have a crisis where premiums have doubled since 2013. the idea of doing nothing is just untenable. so i do think theres criticism warranted towards the other chamber if they dont get some form of reform done. >> lisa murkowski says shes not for doing nothing. she wants it to go through the regular committee process when its dealing with one-sixth of the economy. she wants it to go through ...

Democratic senator chris murphy from connecticut. senator, you were vowing to try to punch back with this health care bill offering up to 100 amendments. is it a delay tactic, maybe devils advocate question, wouldnt you want to try to make it better as opposed to muck up the process more. >> i hope they pass and make the bill better. democrats have been shut out of this process. this happened behind closed doors. there is no committee process and no hearings so the only opportunity that democrat...

Address that so people on their own in the individual market get the same tax benefits as those who get health insurance at work. >> here is the problem. the president. the president is the one who called your bill mean and cold hearted after the fact. that is why he wanted to see the senate do something different. hence, we are where we are today. the president has take tn to ca out republican senators who voted against his wishes yesterday. he said this about lisa murkowski. it says, senator m...

Bills back to committee and have an open committee process, as we did with the affordable care act in 2009 and 10 and consider the impact of legislation and possibly other ideas for making the health care system a lot better. its pretty simple. >> jon: it doesnt seem to be working right now, insurance companies are pulling out of the obamacare exchanges. is there an option, as the president has sometimes suggested, to just letting the obamacare exchange is collapse? >> theyre not collapsing, as ...

Committee and ruling committee, et cetera. these amendments are only as good as the gop majority wants them to be. isnt that the truth? >> john mccain, interesting you bring his name up. remember that after the most recent delay, before this vote yesterday, john mccain came out very quickly and said we need to go back to basics, we need to start over. we need to have a full committee process, an open amendment process. he voted yesterday to move forward on a process that is not, in fact, that. y...

And the ability to sell and buy nonobamacare plans. there were several republicans who denied the motion. lisa explained why she didnt want to proceed to a floor debate. i voted note today to have the senate take it to a committee process. and they do not seem to want to move forward on repealing obamacare. they want to have a bipartisan way to fix the aca flaws. they wanted to see more and have not seen it yet. >> bill: whats the next