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Hill, april ryen and kevin madden. happy friday. how are you guys? >> hey, don. >> bob, i -- april, wow, look at that. i like the glasses. very nice. bob, are you surprised that the president publicly went after senator john mccain? >> no. this is his style. i am surprised that his supposed list of ten republican senators who could be a no that it didnt include john mccain. john mccain has been saying for the last couple days he is undecided. and of course, hes the one who killed the so-called s...

The three who voted no in july, collins, mccain and murkowski, conservatives cruz and lee, and moderates capito and portman with kentuckys rand paul no. some suggest it could come down to mccain and murkowski again with the leadership only able to lose one more republican. mcconnell has asked to hold a hearing early next week clearing up any doubts before the crucial vote. vote.let jackie ibañez live for us this morning. 7.1 magnitude quake left tremendous devastation. you see some of it right ...

Run out because the next thing on the table is tax reform. that is something the republicans are more united on in terms of how we might get there. they purport theres a lot more planning going on. i think democrats are feeling with collins and murkowski clean leaning no, as they are saying, and skwrpl skwpl firmly giving a no, it is looking unlike lu. it comes down to numbers. we dont have the real math what this would look like other than states would lose money. a lot of negatives. not a lot ...

Senator murkowski and senator mccain, but those women who from the very beginning were like we cant address that just saying step in line with the party. they are representing their constituents. thats a major problem -- >> and you have to respect the fact that they stood loyal to their constituents, what they felt was best. >> yes. >> both murkowski and collins. and ive got to give credit to john mccain who took a stand and he and i have not been fans of each other, but i give him respect. at t...

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This should be placed on congress. blame should be placed on congress for this. like ive been saying, the gop is having an identity crisis. a lot of them are more moderate than the gop of the past. the point where theyre like the democrats of the past. some arent. i dont know how you reconcile them. if you have seven more years, i dont know if you can ever -- >> do you repeal now and work to replace it with something better? >> we saw today, thats what the idea was, put on the floor. two years t...

Quick. >> you have one, remember, theres a rule today. >> ill be quick. first on anthony scaramucci. on cnn this morning, he said he had a conversation with attorney general jeff sessions about these supposed leaks. that would appear to violate doj guidelines. im hoping you could provide some clarity on that. and secondly, out of alaska today, the local paper there is reporting that senator murkowski received a phone call from secretary of interior zinke essentially threatening the federal dolla...

With the president for calling out murkowski. this president is different. hes going to use the leverage that he has in order to get a bill passed. the bottom line is, we cant go into the 2018 elections. republicans cannot go to the mod terms saying give us five or more seats. thats a convoluted message. >> is the better message we couldnt get anything together or we got something together and its worse than obamacare? >> the senate and the house leadership have a bill that they can vote on -- >...

>> reporter: murkowski, right. they are looking to see what changes took place, what adjustments are made. if the adjustments that are made to this bill lead them to come out in open six to it. i mean, that itself the big question here. thats certainly something we saw constantly during the health care process in the house. this comes back and forth between the freedom caucus and the tuesday group. constant negotiations, talking about what could be changed but without jeopardizing the other ideo...