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Entirely behind closed doors but republican leaders promise details are coming soon. senator john cornyn says starting tomorrow all the anxiety surrounding the bills secrecy will, quote, evaporate. >> a working draft will be released tomorrow. i think all of the concerns people have had about the process will evaporate. because i think there will be unlimited opportunity for people. >> with me now from the white house, mark lauder, a special adviser to the president. hes also the press secretary...

Legislative recess. >> a working draft will be released tomorrow. i think all of the concerns people have had about the process will evaporate because i think theyll be unlimited tounts for people to read it and understand whats in it then debate it. >> reporter: now, president trump is arriving here with a bounce in his step. hell be talking to a rally here in downtown cedar rapids to thousands of supporters. but hes also arriving to a piece of advise from the local newspaper, cedar rapids ga s...

A working draft will be released tomorrow and i think all the concerns will evaporate. >> senator johnson, whether or not hes a leading indicator or a canary in a coal line. if just 3% of senators say they -- they need 50 of their 52 members to vote for this in ordered to move forward. so if process is that big of an issue, that theyre willing to vote no because of whats going on. the real issue remains the policy. im told behind closed doors yesterday there was a very tense, very contentious me...

Insurance companies to opt out of that, then maybe we with need to create a federal fund. so this is a big, big, policy debate. can they really pull a rabbit out of the hat tomorrow? a working draft, he did not call it a final bill. >> i think cornyn floated separately the possibility of doing this before the august recess. and so you hear the first hint of delaying it until the next recess. i think its going to be tough to go from a draft bill to a final vote this quickly. even with mitch mccon...

Ceo ceos before a vote. is that enough time to vote on such an important piece of legislation? >> in the last week or so, a number of republicans have voiced their own unease in this process, acknowledging its too secret, particularly rank and file members, have no idea where this is going to end up, despite the fact senator mcconnell said there would be a working draft done on thursday. there still are major issues that need to be resolved before thursday. first off, the frustration about the p...

Repealing and replacing obama care was tough, but a replacement plan hasnt been presented yet and some top republican lawmakers havent seen a working draft. rand paul turned the search into a chaotic skaven gjere hunt this week searching for the bill. the kentucky republican even brought a copy machine to xerox the document so he could share it with the country. >> we heard it was secret, we wanted to see it even more because if somethings secret, you worry people are hiding things, what we thin...

>> it is one of the most popular songs of all time and now it could be yours. ♪ ♪ >> that is a working draft of bob dylans like a rolling stone. it is up for auction today. it was actually written on sheets of hotel stationery. it is set to bring in up to $2 million. imagine that. those are your headlines. >> i wonder if the hotel that the stationery was written on still exists. >> look no that. see if it is. >> 11 minutes after the top of the hour. straight ahead, democrats have a plan for ...

Last surviving speaker from the march and president obama thought he would not most appropriate person to remember the feelings and capture what it was really like to be there on the ground 50 years ago n terms of the pressure that president obama is feeling right now, which you bring up, craig, the fact that he is speaking in the same place at dr. martin luther king junior, i am told he will not compare and hope other folks wont compare the two speeches. the president believes this is a differe...

Talk about it, from the centers for american progress, the washington examiners susan, from the national review jim garrity and nbc white house correspondent kristen welker. kristen, lets start with you. a little birdie told me you have a little state of the union address news. >> reporter: a little bit of news coming out of the white house this morning, chris. the white house looking at this speech as really the presidents best chance to map out what he hopes to accomplish not just in the four ...

Are you hear being how the president is working on this speech? >> reporter: thats what im hearing also. president obama has been working on this speech for a little while now. hes deeply involved in the writing process, along with his key speech writers, jon favreau and the others. im told he has a pretty good working draft at this point, and to what you just brought up, karen, white house officials are saying that this speech is going to sort of deal with some of the broader themes that presid...