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Afghanistan in 2010 making general kelly the most senior member of the military to lose a son or daughter during the war in afghanistan and iraq. eric: the failure to repeal obamacare, a skinny measure, donald trump urging the chamber to change its rules to a simple majority to pass legislation, the president tweeting a quote about that, republican senate must get rid of 60 vote now, killing the republican party, allows eight dems to control country, 200 bills that in senate, a joke. what are...

A fix. for example, the medical device tax. machines of both parties -- members of both parties are willing to do away with that portion of obamacare. you have other parts that you could pull along the edges. you could probably get them to alter the employer mandate a little bit where you might say, okay, perhaps the threshold of employees that have to be covered could be a little bit higher. there are areas of agreement that could allow with the right rhetoric both parties to declare victory at...

Shielded some republican lawmakers from having to take a tough up or down vote on the border wall, but will also make it harder to pass the senate 60-vote threshold. five house republicans. they voted no, while five democrats voted in favor of the bill. all right. still ahead, military speakers speak ut on president trumps ban on transgender military members putting the pentagon at odds with the white house. plus, national security advisor h.r. mcmaster shakes up his team. the top advisor who ...

Parliamentarian. i think it would be silly or stupid if they hadnt been doing that. i think what theyll offer is something that they believe they can pass with 50 votes, and vice president pence casting the tie-breaking vote. >> and in terms of the republican senators, obviously that means that they can do this without -- they dont need democratic votes at all. this has been their strategy from the beginning. >> they can afford to lose two. >> and we have heard different types of objections from...

Things to introduce that would give them a 50 vote threshold which they might conceivably meet? >> i think they may be running elements past the par men traine parliamentaryian. i think theyll offer what they can believe they can pass with 50 votes and then pence, vice president pence casting the tie-breaking vote. >> and in terms of the republican senators, obviously that means that they can do this without -- they dont need democratic votes at all. this has within their strategy from the begin...

This is why the american people hate all their plans. i think 17% approval rating on the latest iteration of the senate bill, just everything they have said they were going to do, they havent done. every version theyve come up with is terrible. and we -- were here to defeat it. >> senator, as you just said, there is no bill. the fact that we dont actually have the substance of this thing, one of the consequences for that is that we dont know under senate rules exactly how many votes would be req...

Senators negotiated. they knew it was going to fail. had a 60 vote threshold. but they wanted to put it up and see where their members were. they lost that vote by seven votes. they lost it 43-57, nine republicans total left them, seven was basically how -- what put them over the edge there. thats a bad sign. repeal and replace, which is where they want to end up on this, did not get a very good showing last night. as you noted, in 20 minutes they will vote open the repeal only option. this is s...

What senator majority mitch mcconnell want the and what hes going to try to do the next couple of days are multiple test amendments to put it out there to see can he get that critical number of 50. the that is really the goal here is to get them to something, to vote on something, and they need 50 to do that. so it could be small. it could be big. we saw yesterday, it failed miserably. it had to reach a 60-vote threshold. they offered $100 billion medicaid. and the pared down bare bones insuranc...

Conservatives dont like it. this is we that 50-vote yesterday, the 50-vote pro said -- procedural vote was so critical. a lot of people are thinking the only thing that might be able to pass is the skinny repeal, maybe do it on a 50-50 vote with vice president pence breaking the tie. shep, just since weve been talking here, they just started this roll call vote. im looking around the corner here. this is the vote, the procedural vote on the hyde amendment. its barred for the rules that prohibit ...

Were focused on is. kasie hunt joins us from capitol hill. yesterday you said it was the perfect day in history to have a front row seat on the hill. today is the encore. >> reporter: it is, guys and we still have a long way to go here. its not 100% clear as you were outlining, far from 100% clear what theyll ultimately decide theyll have a final vote on. as you outlined, all of that negotiating that we covered in such detail went down with kind of a whimper last night. a 60 vote threshold on a ...