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The gallery. >> friend and fellow senator amy clob bu char remembers his wifes raw emotion, out of sight of the cameras but audible inside the chamber. >> shes sitting up there knowing he has this terminal diagnosis, and then he stands there and seizes the moment again. >> were getting nothing done, my friends, were getting nothing done. >> friends say even before he got sick, mccain had grown more and more frustrated with senate dysfunction. >> we keep trying to find a way to win without help f...

>> and the irony, boy, if anybody remembers four years ago, it was mitt romney, president obamas opponent who said, russia, putin is our number one geopolitical foe. he was ridiculed and this is ow the obama administration ends. there is definitely some irony there. james woolsey and jeremy bash, thank you both for joining us. coming up, the first big fight of 2017 will be about obamacare. thats ahead. plus, call it a rockette revolt. several members of the famed dance troupe dont want to perfor...

Republican vote. i am not assigning blame to anybody for that fact. other than the fact that there was no bipartisan support for this thing from the start. as soon as it was called obamacare, it became something that republicans could uniformly disparage and despise. if it had a better name for the bills, the polls always showed if it was called obamacare, people opposed it. if it was called the affordable care act, people didnt oppose it nearly as much. so to the degree this is tied to obamas l...

Repealing these chunks of obamacare, comma, effective day, a couple of years from now. because they have been pretty clear that you cant just pull the plug all at once. what theyre going to do, as i think the majority leader is trying to explain, is first you pass a thing saying, yes, we are closing down this law. but, you also say, but it remains the law of the land until we pass some other legislation that replaces it. you cant just have know health care system at all. >> so, katherine, theyve...

Next. >> does that mean -- >> that means as i said earlier, well move first with the obamacare replacement resolution and then we will come with what the replacement actually will be. i dont know how many times i have to say the same thing. >> paul singer is a white house correspondent with "usa today." katherine rampel is an opinion writer with "the washington post." so what will this look like? practically speaking, obamacare was passed in 2010. every republican running for office since then h...

Important to bring the american people together to fight this radical proposal. millions of americans voted for donald trump after he promised not to cut social security, medicare, and medicaid. must be held to those promises and should veto any legislation that cuts these vital and necessary health programs. earlier this month, when pressed by reporters, republican senate majority leader mitch mcconnell failed to describe the gops replacement for the millions of americans receiving health care ...

Base, and even beyond their base to get them to say, hey, keep these things around. maybe rebrand it, do whatever you want, call it trumpcare for all i care, but they need to gin up -- >> is there an indictment of democrats that they havent been able to do that for six years? >> absolutely. >> ive been hearing that since they began, once people learn thbasics of thistheyll like it. i havent seen the numrs turn in six years. >> no. americans dont like obamacare. again, its the name "obamacare," t...

Mccain voted no and killed that crucial republican bill to repeal and replace obamacare. >> senator mccain. >> it made mccain a hero to obamacare supporters, but a traitor to many in his party. >> this is clearly a disappointing moment. >> a place he found himself many times in decades of legislative fights. >> hes been called the maverick for a reason, because hes not just a maverick out there by himself and pursuing his own interests. thats not the kind of maverick john mccain is. john mccain ...

>> why dont we try the old way of legislating in the senate? >> a debate is underway as u.s. senators try to overhaul obamacare. >> theyre trying to focus on a skinny repeal. >> three nights later when the senate was taking the pivotal obamacare appeal vote, all eyes were on john mccain. >> i think he was conflicted because he really does want to repeal and replace obamacare, and there was a lot of pressure on him to do this and do that. i said do what you want to do. >> as someone who had just ...

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