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Every republican running for office promised immediate relief from this disastrous law. we as a party must fulfill the solemn promise to the voters. >> reporter: president trump engaged and vice president engaged, as well. we received late word monday that senator john mccain will be flying back to washington, will be on hand today in the united states senate to also cast a vote in this. of course here, recovering and in fact in treatment for an aggressive type of brain cancer. his vote is neede...

Care reconciliation act which is the senate republican version of the house health care bill that already passed. and they could debate all sorts of additional amendments for changes that people are going to want to make to these proposals that may never happen. because theyre doing this through reconciliation which means the democrats or anybody cannot filibuster this with a 60-vote threshold, you have a vo vote-a-rama. you could have 200, 250, 300 amendments brought to the table. a lot could b...

From this disastrous law. we as a party must fulfill that promise to voters. >> reporter: president trump engaged in this, vice president mike pence, as well. we received late word monday that senator john mccain will be flying back to washington, will be on hand today in the united states senate to also cast a vote in this. of course he is recovering and in treatment for an aggressive brain cancer. his vote is needed on this. if republicans get the votes to go forward on this. the white house i...

Rand paul, mike lee -- >> terry moran -- >> lisa murkowski. moran had procedural problems. >> okay. >> if faced with a -- so he said. he didnt like the way the process was running. if faced with a vote, o repeal and replacing the affordable care act or not, i dont think its going to die if it does because of his vote. >> we had a couple of public events yesterday with the president on camera. one, he stood in front of white house interns at the kwho-- int at the white house, and had a memorable ...

Not just from senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, not just from the president and vice president, even from the rank and file, trying to get their members to yes. to kick this process off. how senate majority leader mcconnell wanted this to go is there would be an agreed upon amendment that all 50 senators or more agreed upon to move forward. a large-skafl amendment that would i -- scale amendment that would strip out any other version of the bill and that they could get the votes and kick t...

Indeed will get something of a win here. a much-needed win. but this health care bill and the outcome will say a lot about president trumps agenda and the republican partys agenda going forward. christine and dave? >> all right. jeff zeleny. thank you. you heard him mention the two-step process. so can the vote pass? and if it does, whats next? cnns phil mattingly has more on that from capitol hill. >> reporter: this is the moment weve been waiting for. the press, the public, the senators themse...

Work. that effort has failed repeatedly. so where does that leave us? at least according to senator corker, the wild west. if the procedural vote passes, that would mean a wide-open amendment process. any senator, republican or democrat, could offer any amendment they see fit to change the house-passed bill the senate is considering. as long as senate republicans are short of votes, we might not know until they walk on to the floor whether they have them. whats clear, theyre making the last push...

Trump went before tv cameras at the white house this afternoon to push senate republicans to begin debating an obamacare repeal and replacement bill. the showdown vote is tomorrow. also this afternoon, white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders said the president is very proud of his son-in-law and top adviser jared kushner who answered questions from senate intelligence committee investigators. today kushner made an extremely rare public statement denying he colluded with the russians. ...

The republican majority why doesnt president trump democrats and republicans in the senate sit down, and try to come up with a mainstream nominee. >> here is how this works senate judiciary committee is expected to approve sending gorsuch to full senate floor probably 10:00 this morning, sets up showdown vote likely to happen thursday or friday, but this is going to be a whale if a fight. >> thanks. clayton: hundreds liberals getting hostile it is a town hall target senator lindsey graham why? b...

And the fbi at the very same time when there is a sense of urgency of dealing with these threats i think is very destructive. >> well stay on top of the breaking news. were also following other major developments including tomorrows showdown vote on the effort by the republicans to repeal and release obamacare. the presidents spokesman says there is no plan b if that bill fails. but do republicans have enough votes to pass it? at blue apron, were building a better food system.