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Murkowski, paul. i will tell those colleagues and all the others, the idea hasnt magically gotten better with age. it is still nothing more than a cut and run approach to health care that will leave millions of americans in the cold and raise costs on everyone, the young, the old, the sick, the healthy, working americans and middle class families. everyone will be hurt but the very, very wealthy. mr. president, every day that republicans spend on trying to pass their now failed partisan trumpcar...

In conjunction with republicans in congress to shin ensure that the democrats own this. but at the same time the democrats want to wrap it around the presidents neck and ride it into 2018. so this is really going to be a battle of political wills in the next 17 months. >> shepard: the vice president, mike pence, spoke on healthcare today i understand. >> yeah, and its the vice president who really is the prime liaison, legislative director mark short does a lot of the heavy lifting in terms of t...

Replace? >> im not there. >> not there? >> nope. >> you vote against the motion to proceed? >> i said in january we should not repeal without a replacement, and just an indefinite hold on this just creates more chaos and confusion. >> thank you, senator. >> so lets get the inside scoop from casey hunt, robert costa, washington post national political reporter and moderator of washington week and msnbc political analyst and sam stein daily beast politics editor and msnbc contributor and ruth marc...

Fox news has learned that at least five moderate senators met with majority leader mcconnell on friday to ask for increased funding for medicaid in the bill. senators dean heller of nevada, murkowski of alaska, ohio, west virginia and north dakota, each come from states that expanded medicaid under obama care and have concerns about funding cuts to the program in the current bill. a source tells us mcconnell has already added a number of amendments to the bill in order to win over specific law m...

Giving people the opportunity of the sort of plot point of the cbo score to say, look, thats your read, that basically, you think the folks who are going to defect on this are waiting for that as their sort of, the thing they can point to. >> correct, yes. i think by most estimates, its going to show that somewhere between 15 and 22 million americans are going to lose health care and i think for at least one, if not more, thats going to be the final straw and theyre going to bail quickly. >> yea...

Thats your read. you think the folks who will defloekt this are waiting. the thing they can point to. >> yes. i think by most estimates, it will show somewhere between 15 and 22 million americans are going to lose the health care and i think for at least one, if not more, that will be the final straw and theyre going to bail quickly. >> to play devils advocate, you have, mcconnell is good at this. >> very good at it. >> you were chief of staff for harry reid. you sat across from him in these che...

To come out against it. and giving people of the plot point of the cbo score. thats your read. you think the folks who will defloekt this are waiting. the thing they can point to. >> yes. i think by most estimates, it will show somewhere between 15 and 22 million americans are going to lose the health care and i think for at least one, if not more, that will be the final straw and theyre going to bail quickly. >> to play devils advocate, you have, mcconnell is good at this. >> very good at it. >...

Plans and the $45 billion in extra funding to go toward opioid treatment. one change he did not make is to medicaid. this has a lot of moderate republicans worked up and worried. they did not like how it was in the original bill as they hoped to see the cuts less. mcconnell did not make those changes. that is why we saw a number of republicans including dean heller, murkowski, those members huddling with mcconnell after he unveiled that bill. one thing they are going to be watching very closely ...

Win three out of four elections and then not open debate. it will be a tie tanic amount of hypocrisy. >> youd rather them open the debate and vote no than not -- >> yes. you cannot not debate this. but the hypocrisy would be monument al. >> its interesting to me how many people believe that the decision about bringing the vote to the floor is the vote to watch. that why would -- lets say if cap i toe, portman, heller, murkowski, they all decide to put out a joint statement, none of them want to ...

Po important distinction. lets get to the news, mitch mcconnell, will he have a chance? >> he still has a chance. there are two hard no votes. those that were no-ish or on the fence are still reviewing the bills. most headed back to their home states over the weekend. what we know is a lot of them are reviewing the bill and finding things they like in there. senator murkowski says premiums might only affect alaska. rob portman tweeted a picture of himself reading the bill. he will find there is ...