Nine Defectiones News Today

Center of all of this, senator al franken of minnesota, member of the senate judiciary committee. thank you for joining us on this very busy night. give us the state of play on the senate floor now. we sought nine defectiones from mitch mcconnell on the first vote. >> yeah. this was a bill or vote on -- i mean, basically a vote to go to this bill that has the cruz amendment, which would allow insurance to put out junk plans. im sure some of the defections were about that. it also score had to lo...

Know tonight that he does not have the votes to pass any form of health care legislation on the senate and he simply needs to go through these motions publicly. in order to justify sending the senate into recess and once the senate is in recess, the president of the united states might then repeal and replace attorney general jeff sessions with the recess appointment of a new attorney general who would be allowed to serve without being confirmed by the senate for the rest of the year. that would...