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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...

Force dissenting republicans in line to meet the 50 threshold. and the president jokingly telling a boy scout national gathering if price doesnt get the votes, he will say tom you are fired and senator john mccape returned before his absence in which he was diagnosed with brain cancer. he call would for a fresh bipartisan start on health care and expressed the concern of bill repeating the concerns of obamacare. thats a look at news, i am kelly wright, back to hannity. >> sean: for months, th...

Look like kind of thrown out the window in these first six months of his presidency. but the president himself is going to bear a lot of responsibility for this. this was one of his campaign promises that he was going to repeal obamacare as soon as he got into office. le were six months in and its still uncertain thats going to happen. the senate vote is going to be difficult even if they do get past this threshold today, who knows if senators will be able to coalesce behind a piece of legislati...

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>> i have truth in advertising, great suspicions about the russians and what they do. a lot of this to me had kind of a standard textbook trade craft long employed by the russians or the soviets and now into the russians. i dont find it surprising that these connections are trying to come out. >> all right. joining us now from washington politicos daniel lipman co-author of "the political playbook." weve been talking about whats taking place in week in terms of meetings behind closed doors, but ...

Will come on board as if they can adjust obamacare. >> jon: you and i are confused about what theyll be voting on, so are some of the senators. heres jerry moran of kansas. >> i dont think this bill adequately repeals the affordable care act and i dont think the replacement is the appropriate replacement. its a pretty high threshold and would be pretty substantially different. >> we democrats dont know what our republican friends are planning to vote on next week. ill bet many republicans dont k...

Repeals the affordable care act in adult tickets the appropriate replacement. its a pretty high threshold and will be something substantially different. >> that is congress speak for better care reconciliation act. i know you are wondering, rick. >> rick: it must be pretty quiet there in the rotunda with everybody gone for the weekend. >> it is very quiet. >> rick: how are democrats gearing up for that vote next week? >> they are mocking the uncertainty of the moment. they say they dont even kno...

Most famous case, the criminal trial for the murder of his ex-wife and her friend. now that health care reform is dead or on life-support, many in congress want to move on to other agenda items. tax reform. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel has more. >> weve got a lot of other things on our plate. tax reform. we need to get to tax reform. stick with the congressional calendar looks crowded. budget, government funding, reauthorization of a flood insurance program and the debt ceiling...

In a lot of ways, they cant get to 51. the president is talking about abolishing the filibuster. they have a challenge getting to 51. mitch mcconnell is trying to jam his members right now. lets be very clear on that. hes a craftae long-time legislative master. but hes trying to jam his members and just one, maybe two of them can throw a wrench in that by not voting on this procedural motion. if the others, the democrats, also decide that they want to throw a monkey wrench on the procedural side...

And roy blunt, a member of the leadership, essentially said what we heard the president say, look, we think were heading toward a normal committee process where we have to start getting 60 votes for things. maybe that helps explain the presidents tweet about changing the filibuster, because the reality is all of this health care conversation has not been around that 60-vote plesh shoulder. its been around the 50-vote threshold. perhaps they are at the point where theyre having conversations seri...