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A threat is your only argument, its time to move on. >> reporter: but its ultimately republicans that will need to strike a deal and even though they have time, optimism is not running high. >> clearly, the draft plan is dead. is the serious rewrite plan dead? i dont know. i havent seen the serious rewrite plan. >> reporter: and when the rewrite plan comes out, it will require an entirely new score from the congressional budget office. i spoke to senator john thune of south dakota. he said that ...

Beautiful new health care bill, he was no closer to health care prior to his trip on wednesday. democrats who oppose the bill are keeping up the pressure. they sent a letter to mcconnell asking them to continue fixing obamacare in its current form. >> when using bipartisanship as a threat, is your only argument its time to move on. >> but its ultimately republicans that will need to strike a deal. and even though they have time, optimism is not running high. >> clearly the draft plan is dead. is...

Want different things, so its making negotiations really difficult. and the longer this goes on, the more of a chance there is that the bill will be dead because time is not something thats helping them with negotiations. >> and senators john mccain, bill cassidy, they were saying without changes this bill is stagnant. heres what they said. >> if you shut out the adversary or the opposite party, youre going to end up the same way obamacare did when they rammed it through with 60 votes. only gues...

What bill cassidy, republican senator, said yesterday about appearing to be, again, this is a smart guy. a doctorate, right? confused about whats in the bill. >> we dont know what the plan is. >> wait a minute. it was submitted. >> well, the draft plan has now been serious rewrite, and so we dont know what the serious rewrite -- clearly the draft plan is dead. is the serious rewrite plan dead? i dont know. ive not seen the serious rewrite plan. >> so this is not a commentary on a senator but on ...

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Chris: as it now stands cruz is a nonstarter for you. >> i dont know the amendment. if it turns out its two plans -- chris: thats what he has described. >> thats okay. with two risk pools then thats bad >> thats what he described. >> he hasnt designated whether you have a single risk pool or two risk pools. if it is a single risk pool, that works. if it is two risk pools that is just obama care recreated. we need to do something different than that. chris: at least ten republican senators have n...

Over, but the august break not so far off. topping the agenda, some major changes to their healthcare bills. garrett tenney is live in the information. reporter: the problem is the list of gop lawmakers who dont support the current bill keeps on growing. that likely means even more changes will be needed to get them back on board. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is expected to introduce a revised version of the healthcare bill next week. but its not clear what those revisions look like or...