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Position to say, hey, youve got to make some changes here or there, to possibly give him an out for eventually voting for the bill if he gets a few concessions from mcconnell. whats notable though, a lot of the moderates, murkowski, collins, some of the more moderate members, they didnt draw a line in the sand and didnt come out and say we wouldnt vote for the bill. elizabeth: because there was a planned parenthood issue. >> they dont like the defunding planned parenthood in the bill. if they ge...

The democrats said we wouldnt get anything out of the house and we did. they said the senates not going to have anything and were already talking about what theyre proposing. this is-- were still in an early stage. theres going to be a lot of exchange of ideas and first, we dont have room to play with as your last question was. weve got 52 votes, plus the vice-president in the event of a tie. so we cant lose, you know, more than a couple of votes. elizabeth: that being said, people were critical...

Fake news or whatever, russia is a threat. the white house is countering. elizabeth: we look forward to seeing progress on your bill. leland: senate leadership once a vote on their health care bill next week but first, mitch mcconnell, enough republicans on board, five gop senators say they cant support it. they can only afford to lose two gop senators, garrett tenney following the debate here. there are a lot of phone calls and arm-twisting and golf games this weekend. >> good weather for golf ...

Board. basically what he did, kept the subsidies and pushed back the medicaid types, medicaid expansion more gradually than what the house bill would do, and deeper medicaid cuts, but those wouldnt be until after seven years when they might be facing a tough senate campaign. and theyve got to get dean heller, portman, other people on board if they want to pass it. elizabeth: when you talk about retaining some subsidies, thats when you lose more conservative members, first of all, how are we goin...

Bill? >> im not worried about the cbo. look what they predicted about obamacare, totally inaccurate. when think say that 24 million or 25 million, 23 whatever it was the last cbo report in the house version, a lot of those are going to be people that just elect not to have the coverage because the mandate is not there anymore and theyll save the money and roll the dice and take a chance and hopefully i wont get sick, but the lack of innocecentivization in the sena plan is going to have to be rem...

Of those protections and the conservatives are arguing, you can need to lift more of these to bring the premiums down. and theyre saying these are too much. and they want to see more of those provisions stepped out. thats what the ted cruz and mike lee crowd are saying. elizabeth: what do you see could change the next couple of days? we will have the cbo report possibly as early as monday, but as of right now, we dont hear those five conservative members really budging at all. >> right, i think ...

Hasnt happened. >> it has to happen. we have to change the direction of the foreign policy of this administration. it is up to the president to do largely, with congresss support but right now he cant get over the administrative appointees. >> there are a lot of people he hasnt appointed. it would be fair to say you have an issue with how the administration is handling the issue of us foreign policy towards russia. >> it would be fairer to say anticipating we are going to do something, doesnt ge...

Democrats have in recent years plussed up kurz, gone for the moon sho on canr and so on. all im saying is, the words are ing to have a confrontation with the reality. math is the math. and tomorrow morning well wake up and that process will begin. >> so much of the math is regulation. i agree with you. i supported the -- more money to national institutes of health. and republicans were doubling nih funding. no question there. but what is going on at fda, a lot of these organizations, within gove...

Theyre going to take a realistic approach to russia, theres a lot of people in the administration, they are not -- he hasnt appointed people who have a history of -- >> youre absolutely right, theres this narrative that has been building about how the u.s. is somehow going to be the republic of russia. the people who are coming into the national security team where most of that gets done, theyre very pragmatic and they understand what you deal with when youre dealing with russia, or china or any...

Problems or resolve, you know, the issue between you and the senate. the senate hasnt appointed anybody have they? has speaker pelosi appointed anybody from the democratic side in the house? >> well, to my knowledge they have not but were on the job so its a matter of, again being completely available. were going to do all we can. were not going to let americans wake up on january 1st with unpleasant news. we want to make sure they get the best news they can and we passed a great bill through th...