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Democrats. >> we now have 16 cosponsors on this legislation. >> one-third of the senate democratic caucus has already signed onto the single-payer health care bill senator bernie sanders unveiled wednesday including most of the parties potential presidential aspirants. >> health care is a basic human right and we fight for basic human rights. >> this is the fight for our nation to live up to our ideals. >> its a better return on the investment for the american taxpayer. >> what a difference from...

Bill to kill the health care law before they hit a crucial september 30th deadline after which republicans will no longer be able to repeal the law with a simple majority vote. >> if you believe repealing and replace obamacare is a good idea, this is your best and only chance to make it happen. >> hear that, only chance. meanwhile democrats have shifted from playing defense on health care to going on the offensive. bernie sanders today introducing a bill to establish medicare for all, aka govern...

Of cosponsors like yourself. the republicans are not going for this, so whats the point here? to plant the flag about what democrats feel health care in america should look like? perhaps after the next election? >> one of the real differences between democrats and republicans is that democrats care about health care for all. its not just an abstract concept. huge. with any of these bills that get us onto the path of health care for all should have regular order. we should have debates. we should...

Set to announce the act moments from now. james rosen is live from washington with more. what do we expect? >> its a measure of how far left the democratic party has shifted in the seven and a half years since president obama signed obamacare into law. a single-payer option, too controversial for mr. obama proposed even though he personally supported it is now backed by one-third of the caucus and most of the parties leading figures. the news conference at which bernie sanders will unveil his la...

Years ago, did he so alone. today he has at least 159 democratic cosponsors. if you read those names it, includes many democratic lawmakers thinking about running for president. elizabeth warren, cory booker, two of them. is sanders helping lead the democrats to a victorious future or is this a past bath to the past when voters viewed the party as too liberal to trust in red states and politics? that concern is one reason nancy pelosi says democrats should not make the single payer approach a ce...

>> shannon: but this is a growing narrative with the left, that there is something mentally unstable about him or that he is not fit for this, a former professor, he is a democrat out of maryland, he has introduced a measure that would set up a panel -- it would look at the fitness of the present, whether he is physically and mentally fit to continue in the job, he has 28 cosponsors, he expects that they will have a whole lot more, is this now going to be the narrative of the left, that they pre...

I dont mind the president being upset with us. at the end of the day, if we dont deliver in repealing and replacing obamacare we will all be in trouble, including the president. i dont want to go from repeal and replace to prop up. thats why i have a new idea to block grant all the money back to the state that would stand on obamacare. i hope republican leadership will embrace it and help me get it on the floor in september. if we move on and ignore our healthcare, we will fail miserably in 2018...

I dont mind the president being upset with us. at the end of the day, if we dont deliver in repealing and replacing obamacare we will all be in trouble, including the president. i dont want to go from repeal and replace to prop up. thats why i have a new idea to block grant all the money back to the state that would stand on obamacare. i hope republican leadership will embrace it and help me get it on the floor in september. if we move on and ignore our healthcare, we will fail miserably in 2018...

Cosponsors do you have? >> i think my chief cosponsor, i believe there are 50 votes for this. im hoping to have 25 republicans to come out taking all of the money to washington and sending it back to the states by 2026 every state gives the same contribution. i think federalism is the right approach here. alexander will allow a hearing when we put together. there will be tremendous amount of pressure on leadership to take this up. i think mitch will but i want to stress again, for seven years we...

>> on thursday, the same day the president tweeted about msnbcs reporters georgia congressman hank johnson added his name to the list of cosponsors. they argue section 4 of the 25th amendment gives congress the power to set up a permanent body to decide whether or not the president is able to perform the responsibilities of the office. he wants to create a quote independent nonpartisan body known as the oversite commission on presidential capacity for this president and future ones. >> i think t...