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Administration officials when this was announced last week. could feel the air go out of just the reporters that were standing outside and certainly senators that were inside. its kind of a devastating blow to them thinking about their colleague for so many years. his willingness to come back, if he chooses to vote yes, its a rallying cry, theres no question about it. promised for year after year after year, having one of their colleagues whos dealing with this kind of health crisis right now, w...

The democratic party has a tumor. identity politics. theyve got to remove it. find a leader who is positive, not angry, america is always about being the melting pot. identity politics is about separating the ingredients of the recipe. if you dont have the meal anymore. somebody has to come in and unite the party, an american party. not a competing set of factions who are angry. politics, defining someone who has energy and vision. not necessarily a governor or a senator. i would say something l...

On the policy side, its open borders and socialized medicine. on the sales side, its riding into russia. i think what the person said on msnbc is right. they need a talented high energy politician that can straddle the appeal to hard-working families in middle america. but also relate to that underdog aspect of people on the coast. barack obama was able to do that. he was able to appeal because he seemed reasonable, fresh. when you treat america like that, you know you are in trouble. >> kimberl...

Entities are coming at him, he is being attacked relentlessly. hes using that one mechanism to fight back. on his policy side, he is actually doing work. hes got a p.r. strategy through his twitter, policy items that are being effectuated every single day. the one thing i want to come down harder on, and this was my point with progress, the g.o.p. has both houses, start governing and stop criticizing. im going to go back to high school, the legislature, what do they do? they make the laws. the e...

Just with the base or is this some part of a greater strategy to get legislation passed while everyone is focused on his arguments on twitter? >> i think its a mixed bag. this is the red meat issue. as weve been reporting, when you get to the policy side of things, the particulars of the health care bill, its not that favorable to people who are in his base. sometimes if you say we want to pay attention to the policy, why are you paying attention to the presidents tweets? you know, thats one arg...

Bite them on the policy side when this is actually implemented and a lot of people are affected by it, including a lot of their roervoters and tha what the cbo talks about so it will be interesting to see after this meeting if hes able to have some sort of substantive conversation with these senators and address the real issues, the real problems that they have with this. i think theyre seeing the ro problems with the bill. >> julian is also with us. when you look at the bill and you look at jus...

What they need to get a yes. the question is, how do you thread the needle to give them what they want. another key come boponent is tho score. he dropped a bomb, not because hes concerned about the policy side of it and the medicaid expansion but the other areas he listed as having, at least in his view, being problematic. the cbo score is important. if he feels millions are going to lose insurance, that is problematic for him. same with susan collins the senator from maine. the cbo score will ...

Frankly not to be surprising at all given that theres no individual mandate in the house or senate bills. theres no requirement to purchase health insurance which cbo gives a lot of credit to. >> were you advising mitch mcconnell on this bill? >> i had some discusses about what theyre doing on the policy side, yeah. >> how would you advise him to bring along susan collins and rob portman and people who are representing states where the most vulnerable among them in susan collins words would be t...

Repeal the affordable care act because there is nothing in the affordable care act that mentioned block grants or per capita caps. per capita caps were result in not only the $880 billion in cuts that were looking at over the next ten years, but it will be far greater than money. it will be loss of life. and thats why were fighting, but we cannot believe that a bill that is this cruel could possibly be enacted by anyone in washington. this isnt about democrat or republican. this is about lives, ...

Bill most leave mirrors what you see in the house version. there are key changes. more in a moment. our coverage first gifts with cnns ryan nobles. >> reporter: good morning from capitol hill where senators havent really had all that much time to digest this 142-page bill. if the early reviews are any indication, this is going to have a difficult time being passed and being passed quickly. mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader, could have a problem on both sides of the political spectrum...