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Set of deadlines and all the news today is about russia, russia, russia yet again. >> and ryan, if you look at the polls, if you believe the polls, the american people pretty equally blame president trump and the democrats for the shutdown but it seems like the republicans at least the republicans in congress have gotten if not a pass, probably get blamed half as much as those other too. does it make them mad when they see how this keeps going in this direction? >> probably some. i think that th...

Anyone who would think that both bodies would come to the exact same place at the exact same time, the first shot, i think, is unrealistic. >> for those members who thought they would be done with this issue today, when we conclude this vote, its coming back. you cant do what we are doing to harm the middle-class and america all for the purpose of concentrating greater wealth at the very top. >> dana: ryan streeter, american enterprise institute director of policy studies, he joins me now commit...

Need to deal with. so this isnt the magic elixir, but this is a really important step for a more -- we went where you put the chances of the bill passing? >> i think the chances are high. the biggest challenge, of course, if they can come to an agreement on this lower business tax rate, they have to figure out still have to pay for all of this. that is where which deductions to eliminate coming to play and what you do with the higher income earners in the tax rate that they have. they are treati...

Bullying, blackmail or whatever, that its going to work. >> ten bipartisan governors are saying were opposed to the skinny repeal. it may be a first step but we dont even want to see congress take that first step. is that type of pressure going to have an impact, do you think? >> i think that type of pressure matters for the senators, which is really what matters right now, that vote. how many times can senators say im just voting yes so we can move to the next step? eventually youre going to be...

Which was chosen because you need 50 votes as opposed to the normal 60. to get what they said they want, which is control costs and keep coverage fairly broad. reconciliation will prove to be a very difficult vehicle for technical reasons and so they may very well find themselves in a situation like kelly said where theyre back in a more traditional approach and thinking of how to do this in a bipartisan way. >> a number of senators already weighing in on this notion of skinny repeal. this is wh...

The floor over the next few hours. >> great point. i know you have your running shoes on today. we will be checking back in with you throughout the day. thank you for that breakdown from capitol hill. with me now, ryan streeter, former deputy chief of staff to then governor mike pence, as well as former special assistant to george w. bush. he is now with the american enterprise institute. my panel for the hour, usa today senior political reporter and msnbc political analyst hidy przby przbyla....

The president has been very insistent. republicans dont own this. democrats own this. the reality is that democrats say were not going to repeal president obamas health care law. do republicans own this, do you think? >> they own it now. theyve been saying for years they are going to repeal and replace obamacare and are showing how difficult that is. the attention is on them. no getting around that. >> ryan streeter, thank you so much. stick around with me for the hour. next, anthony scaramucc...

Not a lot of direction out of this white house on what it does want. ryan streeter, nice to visit with you. thank you very much. >> new pictures from moments ago where president trump and president macron are meeting. the relationship between these two leaders and what you might call a rocky start. what do they do to fix that? four seconds on the clock, down by one. championship on the line. erin "the sharpshooter" shanahan fakes left. shes outside of the key, she shoots... ...she scores! uh... ...

Youll hear democrats arguing the flip side of that to say look, this will mean youre voting to end medicaids, as we know it. peter? >> stacey, thank you. ryan, let me get to you quickly and help game this out for me if you can right now. we know the next recess is kicked back for a couple of weeks. cruz/lee amendment, does this then lose a bunch of moderates in the republican party? >> its important to step back and remember what theyre trying to achieve here. some of them, perhaps, have forgott...

About an hour from now. what in the new bill could get them back on board? also joining us, ryan streeter, director of policies and former deputy chief of staff for under then governor mike pence. well start with kasie if we can. new reporting you have on what is in this new version. walk us through what changes have evolved. >> peter, thats right. nbc news now reporting that whats been called the cruz/lee amendment has been added to the bill will be unveiled later today. what does that mean? es...