replace of obamacare today than they were friday. what went on in that meeting? >> reporter: that might be the case, according to what the whip, steve scalise, had to say, but that still doesn't mean they have the number of votes or it would be on the house floor. going into this meeting, an interesting thing happened from the start -- they kicked all of the staff out of this closed-door meeting. it happens, but it's rare, doesn't happen a lot, and that underscored what i heard going into this meeting, that this was a meeting where members needed to get a lot of frustration, a lot of anger, and mostly just kind of disappointment out about failing to move forward on something that they've campaigned on cycle after cycle after cycle. i was texting with one member who was in the room as this was all happening, and he said, look, ostensibly, this meeting is about the path forward. what it is in reality, it's an airing of grievances. and we heard a lot about that. but the point of the meeting was to try and bring everybody back together. there is no question about it. friday was an enormous defeat for the conference, there was a major divide inside the conference that was laid bare for everybody. and coming out of that meeting, two things you heard -- they