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Embarrassing thing. everybody that was a republican ran off obamacare, its bad. vote us and so we can fix it. okay, we voted you in. okay but we dont know how to fix it. we agree it needs to be fixed, but its humiliating. >> eric: john mccain for the first time in 20 years is right. i think it is going to be dead. congratulations on that. weve been saying this for two months, the house bill, nor this bill, hasnt addressed the skyrocketing costs of health care, insurance. seven and a half years, ...

[laughs] i feared going to fail and then we should convene a conferencing what are we going to do. >> kat: vice president mike pence struck a more optimistic tone. >> this president and this administration promised the american people will repeal and replace obamacare. the senate now is within weeks of being able to deliver on the promise. the legislation before the senate for which there is not agreement but we are close, very close. we can get it done and i believe we will. >> kat: capri, we w...

>> eboni: i think what katrina is saying that they have the leadership because they rode on the coattails of donald j. trump in november. two considerations, one is passing it. they also need to pass something people are going to like. people feel like it addresses the primary problems and obamacare, skyrocketing premiums. otherwise politically theyre going to have the same problem democrats had in 2010. they are going to have to live or die by the popularity of the health care reform. >> capri:...

Im -- while holding my baby. im a hero. mom did not see it that way. did not see it that way. >> thats a remarkable grab. left handed -- >> impressive. >> with the bobble and not dropping the kid. remarkable. >> multitasking at its best. >> i think hes still in trouble. >> youre right. sometimes we dads can multitask, too. thank you. the senates republican leader says its time to get the obamacare repeal done. >> weve been discussing all the elements of this endlessly for seven years. everybod...

Issues, many are saying these bills, not just the senate version but the house, as well, they have their issues, as well. you look at the political consequences for so many of these senators, you know, you look at just the overhaul of medicaid, that factor in the senate bill, 20 senators represent states that went ahead and incorporated the medicaid expansion into their states. 18 of them, 18 of those senators are up for re-election in 2020 and 2022. theres trouble if they vote for something con...

Trying to force in one-sixth of our economy remake in a week. from the politics to the policy of it. you talked about trying to bring premiums down. trying to bring insurers back in the market and make health care more affordable. what about the policy of it? does it answer the chief challenges left over from obamacare? >> well, it depends on who you talk to. the critics of the senate bill on the right argue that it doesnt in this regard. that without repealing more robustly a lot of the coverag...

Obamacare is a disaster. its dead. >> the way this bill cuts health care is heartless. >> give us a chance to fix this system. >> we can do better than this. >> senate republicans are trying to con americans into thinking that they are fixing problems. what theyre doing is causing new ones. are there tapes? >> youre going to be very disappointed when you hear the answer. dont worry. >> he has known for weeks that there were no tapes, and yet he strung the american people along. >> does the pre...

This. some people believe without a mandate you dont have healthy, young americans in the system that enables the health care system to pay for older people and sick people at rates that are not unfair and punitive. one of the reasons why the obamacare market never worked as envisioned is that the penalties for not having insurance under obamacare were never enough to get the young and healthy into the system in the numbers that were projected. and that has been part of a problem. >> so let me s...

The bill in its current fashion. among them senators rand paul and ted cruz. >> you have to be honest with people, and it has to be paid for. if were not going to pay for it and keep a lot of stuff that was in obamacare, i think we can do better. my hope is not to defeat the bill but to make the bill better. >> its not enough just to pass a bill with obamacare in the title. weve got to have legislation that fixes the underlying problem. >> the key to getting an agreement, to getting a bill can p...

Behind the senates health care plan. can the party build support after the bill was met with early pushback? welcome back to "early start," im alison kosik in for christine romans. >> im dave briggs. a sense of deja vu for republican lawmakers this morning, only this time its not the house trying to hammer out a deal to repeal and replace obamacare. its the senate -- working to balance the demands. moderates and conservatives as gop leaders attempt to get a health care bill passed in a matte...