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Because they know they have to do it. >> not necessarily. >> not really. it they do the repeal thing all the senators feeling safe and wanted the full repeal dont feel inclination to vote for the overall bill. meaning mitch mcconnell has nor incentive to craft something that actually democrats could vote for. whether they would, to help republicans, not clear. theyll never be able to match it up with the house and never actually have a final health care bill and going into the election with a re...

Yes so cory gardner, youll see him here, he reads the names of the republican senators to indicate they were yes votes. again, in a vote to take the first step toward repealing obamacare. he gets to the end of that list and he reads the name of the one republican who voted no -- thats interesting, and a reminder of how tight the margins are in the senate, you only need to peel off one or two remembers on anything in order to make it go the democrats way. so it was very interesting rand paul vote...

Button to indicate im voting yes so cory gardner, youll see him here, he reads the names of the republican senators to indicate they were yes votes. again, in a vote to take the first step toward repealing obamacare. he gets to the end of that list and he reads the name of the one republican who voted no -- thats interesting, and a reminder of how tight the margins are in the senate, you only need to peel off one or two remembers on anything in order to make it go the democrats way. so it was ve...

First step toward repealing obamacare. he gets to the end of that list and he reads the name of the one republican who voted no -- thats interesting, and a reminder of how tight the margins are in the senate, you only need to peel off one or two remembers on anything in order to make it go the democrats way. so it was very interesting rand paul voted with the democrats on this, he voted no on the obamacare repeal thing. so he notes that, rand paul voted no then he gets to the democratic names an...

>> hes also for universal health care which most republicans dont say theyre for. if youre going to replace the affordable care act, you have to replace it with something to meet the president-elects wishes that involves universal coverage. thats up against tom price and paul ryan and mitch mcconnell. >> the republicans greatest challenge going back and forth about this yesterday that the republicans have the whole repeal thing down. they have for years. they just havent put together an adequate...

On to the ballot for a statewide vote. and it works in massachusetts like it does in every state. you need to get your ballot language approved by the state, then you need to get a certain number of signatures, but if you clear that number of signatures and it turns out enough of those signatures are real people, then your repeal thing goes on the ballot and people get to vote on whether or not to repeal that law. the repeal romney care folks never got to the end of that process, because they go...

A deal in not one but two budget messes the partial government shutdown and the battle over raising the debt ceiling. senate leaders say their talks are now suspended while they wait to see what the house of representatives does. thats new this hour. earlier today house speaker john boehner said he was talking about, quote, what direction to go in. mike emmanuel is live on capitol hill. what are key republicans in the senate saying now? >> reporter: i actually have some breaking news from the ho...

Jobs coming from the full implementation of the health care law. republicans only have lies because they have no alreadyturnatives. its to repeal and replace obama care. they have the repeal thing down good. they just dont plan to replace it. >> what do we do for 57 million people who have existing conditions? >> were going to work on that. >> the mantra has been repeal and replace. is there an idea of what the replace will be? >> no, we want to take it in a deliberate, open approach and take ev...

Pre-existing conditions? the talking points are so stronging. >> thats whats so weird about it. i think it shows a little bit of the defensiveness on the part of the democrats theyre psyched about the repeal thing because theyre worried about campaigning on the actual bill. >> yeah. and what you know, what king and harger are, the legislation that theyre sort of proposing, you know, boehner and cantor have sort of side stepped any actual change to the health care bill. i mean, theyre playing pol...

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