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They want to fix their kinks. >> when has he ever followed process or rules? >> hes a negotiator and knows when to step in and stay out and let the people have the food fight. look at his career and know this is -- >> really? are you sure? i think he threw a wrench in the plan from overseas which says lets throw obamacare individualman date repeal into this thing? >> listen, we were never -- always going to be tough to get collins and murkowski. that seems to be the issue. at the end of the day ...

They already lost a couple times. its a fight over health care, over obamacare, the idea of attacking this repeal of the individual mandate the polling on that, few isolate the mandate the mandate is unpopular so their retically, you put that in there, its a popular thing to do. the problem is it becomes a broader fight of obamacare. we already had. we saw the republicans had trouble corralling in the senate. it becomes an issue, with that mandate issue, mccain, do you loads him? do you lose mur...

Thats kind of where i land. youve got flake and corker, theyve got deficit. theyve got deficit issues. collins, shes got lets if were broad stroking it, health care issues. whos gettable from the personalities that you know or who do you think -- be who could be the problem here? >> i suspect they work on folks like johnson who says he wants to vote for the bill. i think the inclusion of the mandate makes it harder for collins and for murkowski and potentially others. also the debt and deficit p...

Should republicans be optimistic do you think? >> theyre trying really hard to be optimistic. >> collins and murkowski. >> you had ron johnson tonight, of wisconsin saying i cant vote for this until you change the provisions for small business. he spoke with the president about it. the house is going to vote on this tomorrow and theyre wondering are we going to go out on a limb again like we did on health care only to have the senate cut off the branch? and that could well happen. now, taxes are...

Whether they are republicans or democrats, and you can see the democrats picking it up and saying its bad, and thats what is going to drive and influence some of the senators on the margin saying its not worth it to me to actually upset my constituents over this. the constituents are looking to sink their teeth into something, and thats hard to do to vote for the bill as constructed. >> and the only republican that expressed reservations out loud in the senate, and john mccain said hes looking a...

Appeal for most americans. i believe that if we start getting into health care issues with the individual mandate that we send a very mixed message. >> so katy, you hear a little bit of wavering there from susan collins but not an outright no. and i think republican leaders feel like the pressure is so high on the party, especially in the senate, to pass something that they dont see, at least not yet, any kind of defection from the ranks on this bill. >> i will be watching susan collins, i will ...

The individual mandate to modestly reduce income tax rates for middle-income taxpayers and boost the child tax credit from $1,650 to $2,000. a priority for president trumps daughter ivanka. the president urged lawmakers to end the mandate on twitter monday. senator john mccain, who cast a dramatic vote, killing the last effort to repeal and replace obama care, signaling hes leaning towards supporting the bill. but murkowski and collins, who others who voted against the gop health care plan, indi...

Curveball hurts with a lot of democrats, what does it do, brings the deficit number down. they are trying to get it through with a simple 50 vote, and this helps with that. it would raise average premiums by 10% which could wipe out any tax savings. 13 million fewer insured over ten years. i keep saying its a gamble, its a gamble, its a proposition. what is the proposition? >> its math and votes. if you make the math work thats important, to do it on a party line vote and do you have the votes? ...

Know, gop leadership, particularly out of washington, when judge moore has never been classified as an establishment kind of guy, doesnt -- it doesnt appear as though there would be, you know, a direct impact as a result of what corker or murkowski or anybody else says. >> thats not going to move the needle for either moores decision or any alabama voters decision. theyre going to base their decision to vote or not vote for roy moore on his past performance, on what hes done in the state and, yo...

Hes going to have to deal with. >> all right, judge bob vance, thanks for your time tonight. >> my pleasure. rosie gray, white house correspondent for "the atlantic." josh marshall, editor and publisher of "talking points memo." where to start. i mean -- >> busy day. >> its an astounding thing for any politician to be accused of. and you could almost see like the republicans look like deers in headlights today. they really did. murkowski says shes spoken to senator strange about a write-in cam...