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Move on. thats obviously not going to happen but they are reacting to their constituents. >> jesse: they are. some of the states, these are states that are very independent minded, like maine. or west virginia. these dates really hang in the balance around election time. these arent hard-core republican states. >> lisa: i agree but theres an element of cowardice and hypocrisy here as well. >> jesse: you dont say! and the republican party? you dont say. >> lisa: the bill would not go anywhere, th...

Obamacare. we can repeal it, but the best is repeal and replace and lets get going. i intend to keep my promise, and i know you will, too. >> all right. all of these different moving positions, while senate majority leader mitch mcconnell moves forward to repeal obamacare without a replacement. whats happening here? we have maggie haber dan, david chalian and david avl ho n. before we get to the presidents ever-changing positions, at this luncheon it was very interesting, the optics, as well as ...

Conversation without any u.s. national security officials present deeply troubling. this hour i will talk about those stories and more with senator sheldon whitehouse. he is a democrat on the senate judiciary committee, and our correspondents and specialists are standing by for us. first, i want to go to cnns ryan nobles, he has more on the rangling over health care. republican senators are meeting soon 0 over health care. this estimate, this cost about their bill, what is that going to do to ...

Get something great, were going to kill it. let it die. were going to come up with something much, much better. >> youre going to have such great healthcare at a tiny fraction of the cost and its going to be so easy. >> now though the president says he favors repealing obamacare without a replacement. the senate will vote on next week. thats a big change from the campaign. he took pains to reassure those they wouldnt be left out in the cold. no repeal without a replacement. something better. >> ...

Vote no against this idea of getting rid of obamacare without a replacement. it was reportedly back then a tense meeting. give us a sense what youre expecting to see. you had people like dean haller with ads run against him. what do you expect the temperature in the room to be like today? >> well, i think its certainly going to be tense, aimman. there theres a lot of recriminations about whos to blame for this. i think president trump wants to get some agreement here. the senate pushed back on t...

Learned today is that mitch mcconnell in fact wanted to proceed. it is a little bit complicated with senate rules here. but essentially if they want to vote on health care this week, they would have had to do it this morning. that was mitch mcconnells original plan until we heard him go to the floor late yesterday and say, look, i talked to the president, i talked to the vice president, and so were going to do this vote early next week. and then here you have, you see it there, the members of th...

Could come as soon as tomorrow. and it will likely fail. tonight, senate republicans have essentially run out of options. >> i regret that the effort to repeal and immediately replace the failures of obamacare will not be successful. that doesnt mean we should give up. >> reporter: soon after senate majority leader mitch mcconnell made his pitch to repeal obamacare without a replacement, three senators, susan collins of maine, shelley moore capital of west virginia, and lisa murkowski of alask...

Nowhere near president truman nor fdr. he signed 76 bills into law in his first 100 days. roosevelt signed major legislation in the midst of the grips of a great depression. what kind of bills has president trump signed since taking office? there have been some significant measures no question, accountability and overhaul at the veterans affairs, boosting border security and military spending but almost half are ceremonial and the majority nearly reverse obama regulations using obscure legislati...

Plan. >> thats right. part of that was just about punting a little bit, right? this a week that congress is in recess, and so lawmakers are at home, and some of them have cancelled town halls and are not doing town halls at all because they know they are facing intense backlash, so what part of president trump is doing is giving them a talk point of well, we will wait and see what the president does in a couple weeks and go from there, and its just a dodge. republicans have had seven years where...

>> an american icon takes a stand against trump. >> when you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, off moral obligation to do something. >> tonight, the shock waves from john lewis and why democrats are fuming after another classified briefing with fbi director comey. plus, new questions about team trumps explanation for their phone calls to russia. >> the only conversation that general flynn had was one to wish him a merry christmas. why republicans are targeting the ethics o...