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Susan collins and little is a murkowski and make sure all republicans are on board. steve: sure. ultimately this next tip is going to tip the balance to the right politically most probably and given the fact that the democrats who were threatening to filibuster they screwed up and now we have the nuclear option. he can put anybody. >> he can put anybody. basically democrats wasted it on gorsuch. pruch clear sailing for donald trump. then the question becomes does donald trump and this brings up ...

Real financial benefit and those who didnt are going to say i did the conservative thing, i was fiscally responsible. reality, to gethis passed, they have to do that. you cant lose portman, murkowski and a number of other cylinders. they think that they nailed it between the two perils. >> i knew you would drop in a steelers reference. i have to get your take on something weve been monitoring all morning long. democrats are promising that this is going to be a fight. do they have a shot? >> yeah...

Republicans have taken charles a posh b.s. advice, they are all on the same page come he says. >> i dont know if that is necessarily true, and just because your campaign on something doesnt mean that you should keep it come but what we are getting signals from on the paul ryan plan, it will require some set of rollback of medicaid expansion, in their five members of the united states senate who are republicans who are on that plan, cavuto from west virginia, taylor from nevada, rob portman, susa...

The same page. theyre barely on the same page. >> replacing -- the facts we post many articles on obamacare and the possible replacements with there are good ideas and trade offs. they dont want refundable tax credits. you cover people who cant afford to buy insurance. theres a very coherent -- >> makes a good argument for the tax credit. >> yes. >> very well. this is the other obama wants government exchanges, conservatives want tax credits. age appropriate. >> all conservatives -- >> you heard...

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They have a majority in the senate. if, if they all stick together. look, they have really needed that majority for basically every one of these votes. of all of the cabinet nominations that have come before the senate, 462 yes votes from republicans. just two, two no votes from republican senators on the entire trump cabinet at this point. those two no votes, it was murkowski, it was collins. it was on betsy devos for secretary of education. if one more republican had joined with them, this nom...

The ideological and political spectrum, it does have an impact. >> and, look, we know from public opinion polls that senator collins in maine and murkowski in alaska, they had moved based on public opinion of their constituents, protest works, it moves public opinion and gets legislators to act. >> thank you for joining us. still to come, actress susan sarandon and climate actor and filmmaker josh fox react to the first weeks of the trump administration. plus tonights thing 1 thing 2 starts ri...

They dont -- people dont like protests, they dont like being the subject of it. as a human being. and we saw puzder telling someone today that he "didnt want the abuse" anymore. >> lets look at the record about whos the abuser here. >> but the broader lesson also, and we saw in the the town halls, is showing up, making yourself known, being loud, people do not like it as a general rule. people in power anywhere across the ideological and political spectrum, it does have an impact. >> and, look, ...

And this video was made public this morning, but it was shown behind closed doors earlier this week, earlier in this process, i should say, two senators who were part of this confirmation battle. and there are a number of in particular women senators on this committee, patti murray, the ranking member there. and then two republican women, senators collins and murkowski, and if you read through senator marin just put out a statement on this, she talks about what she describes as his history of ob...

Only for their burgers but their advertising campaigns that often included scantily clad women eating burgers that some people viewed as sexist. those are elements of the criticism about andy puzder that had grown over the course of the last several weeks focusing on his personal background and his business record more broadly. >> kasie, talk tom to me about youve been hearing on the hill r . >> reporter: the nomination, republican opposition, not democrat opposition. democrats have been opposed...