back with us from across town, his lofty perch, white house correspondent for the new york times. i don't know if there are shades or degrees of doa. how doa is this bill in the senate? >> the president has argued -- let's lay out his position first -- that if you get the freedom caucus in the house of representatives, that will allow you to line up people like ted cruz and mike lee in the senate who have expressed oppositiong this. that's a dubious argument because you have all these senators in the middle to rob portman's, the sizen collins who have constituents who rely on