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Ooh, ooh hot - just gonna stay home on the farm, eat a beautiful idaho potato, and watch tv with my dog... tv anncr: the big idaho potato truck pulled into town today and its really a sight to see. oh man...lets go.... (distant) you comin, boy? sfx: (dog) gulp! woof. >> jon: on capitol hill house republicans finishing mark-ups on their tax reform bill as they push for a vote next week while vice president mike pence pitched tax reform in indianapolis yesterday. >> we need to cut taxes for the mi...

Hurtful to them and so, you know, certainly speaks more broadly to just how charged and just how sensitive this issue is, and, you know, as general kelly said, there are a lot of people who are frustrated with the fact that everything has become so politicized. julie: yeah, and this is certainly not an issue that should ever be politicized. its certainly a step back. but katie, thank you very much for talking to us. we appreciate it. >> great to be with you. julie: republican lawmakers narrowly ...

Know, certainly speaks more broadly to just how charged and just how sensitive this issue is, and, you know, as general kelly said, there are a lot of people who are frustrated with the fact that everything has become so politicized. julie: yeah, and this is certainly not an issue that should ever be politicized. its certainly a step back. but katie, thank you very much for talking to us. we appreciate it. >> great to be with you. julie: republican lawmakers narrowly passing a budget for the 201...

Across the aisle. >> the difference this time is that one of mccains closest friends on capitol hill is leading the effort. its a friendship that has spanned decades. the three amigos, graham, joe lieberman and mccain seen here out for a hike after mccains first round of chemotherapy. senator graham emotional when mccains diagnosis became become. >> no more woe is me, lindsey. he is yelling at me to buck up. so im going to buck up. >> the white house is hoping graham can secure mccains support. ...

Thats a much higher priority. but at the same time the president trump is absolutely right, the only one that can change the law is congress and they need to do it. there have been plenty of hearings. i dont want to hear about more hearings. i want to hear about mark-ups and bills moving forward. it is a great opportunity to lock down the border. get rid of the rewards and incentives. do the things that president trump campaigned on and had a mandate to do. he won 30 of 50 states. he has a manda...

Going forward without it whereas you have seenior house republicans who say they agree with senator mccain and its time to start from a clean sheet of paper. this is the opposite of how the bill came forward and no committee hearings and no mark-ups and no real, i guess, amendments to the actual bill on the floor before it was passed. so, you know, theres a division there, and there are a number of republicans who want to move in a good direction. he controls the purse strings on these legally a...

Talk about a approximate proposal that nobody has ever discussed before their own particular idea on the process. and the reason why we are where we are is because weve had no mark ups, no deliberation, no norm pal system. people are just -- to be honest, spit bawling ideas out there and the idea that were actually going to decide issues that affect peoples health insurance in this kind of random way is just like the most irresponsible leadership ive ever seen in my life. >> i spoke this afterno...

Potentially down the line, a reprieve? >> its a reprieve, and its only a temporary victory, if its a victory at all, because we have stopped something truly bad and evil from happening. but the republicans have now gone from total secrecy to total chaos. they drafted this bill in complete secrecy behind closed doors. now they are in chaos and are going back to secrecy. this bill that the majority leader says he wants to submit by the end of the week will be the result again of a failed secret pr...

First of all that made it way, there have been court, it is fought yet illegal. we dont know the answer to that question. it hasnt made it wait to the supreme court. let me ask you that specific question. why not allow that so that you dont have the panic moment? it gives you more time to pass this bill properly, maybe with committee hearings and mark-ups and things like that? >> well, as you know, president trump has continued making those payments every month, but the insurance like anthem bef...

For all of the talk that the russia investigations are a distraction, thats a bad thing. it has been a good thing for republicans. it kept a lot of media focus from what is going on with the health care bill. both parties are criticizing all the secrecy surrounding what is going on with your health care. joining us to discuss is sarah cliff, correspondent for vox and julie rovner. good to have you here. julie, lets start with the secrecy is a bad thing and raising question about what is going on...