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Step. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel joins us live from capitol hill. mike, hows it looking? speak up melissa, theres a real drama going into that procedural vote which should come next hour. you have arizona senator john mccain returning from his own personal health care issue, battling brain cancer. a lot of his colleagues sound fired up that he will be back for this critical step to repeal and replace obamacare. a short time ago, the senate majority leader issued this call to ...

Scenarios can seem confusing. >> we dont know whether we will be voting on house bill, the first version of the senate bill, the second version of the senate bill, a new version of the senate bill, or 2015 bill that would have repealed the affordable care act now and said somehow well figure out a replacement over the next two years. i dont think thats a good approach is. >> arthel: joined me now is luther from alabama. its good to have you here. >> great to be with you. >> arthel: is the first ...

Promising. >> scheduled next week. earlier in the day he promised that even though theyre facing yet another set back, he is committed to finding a way forward on healthcare. take a listen. >> i believe we must continue to push forward now. i regret the effort to repeal an immediately replace the failures of obamacare will not be successful. that doesnt mean we should give up. we will try a different way to bring the american people relief from obamacare. i think we owe them at least that much. ...

Repeal and immediately replace the failures of obamacare will not be successful. that doesnt mean we should give up. we will now try a different way to bring the american people relief from obamacare. i think we owe them at least that much. >> but the problem that mcconnell has right now is that the votes simply arent there. there are now at least four republican senators who say they will not vote for a straight repeal. even though, mcconnell seems very content to put this bill on the floor for...

Following president trumps new effort to repeal and replace obamacare, and over lunch the president repeatedly said we shouldnt leave town until a new health care bill is on my desk. i want to get some new insight from our correspondents and specialists here. phil mattingly, i want to go to you first to talk about this cbo score. we have this new updated number that is quite significant because we talked about the repeal and replace bill and the price tag there. this is for just the repeal bill....

There are going to be amendments during the debate process next week, and the question is whether or not the people who are opposed, never mind the people on the fence, the people saying, huh-uh, can be brought to yes with any kind of changes that will not end up losing the moderates on the other side of the republican spectrum. >> its interesting because by our reporting, we have about 12 republican senators who its unclear where eventually they stand. there you see them up there, some moderate...

Missouri and we have a history and im in st. louis, missouri, and a history of not just voter fraud, but maybe six weeks ago we had a new election called because of the absentee balloting irregularities and what the people think and the trump campaign meant, and sanders knew it, and the debates have shown it is rigged and people want to believe that there is somebody cutting through it. tr trump is trying to the say -- >> that is not true. >> what is not true? >> that is not a -- that is a diffe...

Donald trump. tailor made for donald trumps skills. so theyre doing something most campaigns dont do. theyre raising expectations for their candidate. and i will tell you, after talking to people inside the trump campaign, theyre pushing back on this notion that trump was somehow jealous of mike pences performance last night. they said no, that is not the case. kellyanne conway said thats outrageous. but donald trump will be getting back into debate prep. we were said reince priebus and chris ch...

Surrogate of the pro-clinton group correct the record. thank you for being with me. >> poppy, so glad to be on. wish you were here in manchester. >> so do i, actually. so do i. it should be an exciting night. lets talk about this. a lot to get through. first of all, there have been accusations that the dnc has skewed the debate process so that it favors your candidate, hillary clinton. i know you read the frank bruni piece in the "new york times" this week. lets read part of it. it says talking ...

>> during the debate process we are trying to see who our nominee will be. once we get that then we can reach out. i think it is great trump is in the race. i dont listen to the new york times because they are not great policymakers. but discussing issues is good. many of the candidates are having trump set the report, having trump set the tone. if i were running for office, i would look to carly fiorina and take a play from her playbook because she answers the questions and then goes on to her ...