Lisa murkowski is leaning no, and so the announcement of senator mccain means that he cannot support the bill, and leaving it one no vote away from defeat and so perhaps politically influential. No reaction from the white house on the mccain bombshell, but he is about to speak at this rally in alabama, and he has never been one to hold back on the rally, and so we will keep a close eye on this when he taks s the stage. So as we watch, that i want to bring in cnns phil mattinglyt at the capital. What more are you learning absenator mccains decision today . John, interestingly enough all you had the do is to lis own what the senator was saying, and where the senator could go and the great friends with Lindsey Graham, and the idea to repeal obamacare, but every time i have spoken to senator mccain, he has never wavered in the opinion that it was a wrong process, and just go back to july, and the Senate Floor Speech just after he had been diagnosed with cancer, and he decried the direction that the senate had gone and the lack of bipartisanship, and he said i cannot in good consciousness vote for the Graham Cassidy proposal and we do better working together as democrats and republicans and nor could i support it without knowing how much it costs and how it is fwo going to affect the insurance premiums, and how many people will be hurt by it, and everything that he had been telegraphing over to the course of the last couple of years. I am told that there was not much wavering despite what we have been hearing, and i have been told by senator graham that he would do this, but this is what he would do and on his own and setting thetone and stage f others have campaign ed on and made clear that it is the top policy priority throughout the first year of President Trumps time in office. And rand paul says a no, but what about the other two votes, murkowski and collins . Any better thinking of what they are going to do tonight . Well, this is important, because they still dont have the third solid no yet, but however, leadership has told me that Susan Collins would be in the no column and told the Portland Herald that she is leaning no and went on the attack several pieces of the bill, but the big question is when she would announce that and becoming the third solid no to effectively kill this bill, and she is on a sunday show this week, and some speculation that is where it is going to be, but she wants to wait for the cbo score, and however curtailed and that is expected next week. Lisa murkowski wanted to study the proposals and what it meant for the state, and the decision from her is not expected soon or even over the weekend and the third no is the death knell for this bill. And so in terms of the vote, phil, any suggestion that Mitch Mcconnell would bring it to the floor without the numbers . Look, we have been covering this for too long the put a stake in its heart, because it has rizen from the dead too many times. Bau calculation here, and this is a recognition that it came from nowhere, and put a lot of effort in at the deadline and they feel good that they have given it a shot, but the idea of putting the bill on the floor, and the senate floor and having another spectacular failure for everybody to watch, wait and see, and not only that, but put the members who have yet to come out in support of the bill to hold the fire and not do are have is to walg in on something attacked pretty much across the country at the moment, and there is no real sense to have them put through that, and that said, se a possibili it is still a possibility, and so when does the third no come, if it does. And thank you, phil. And the president is supporting one candidate and his hud secretary ben carson is supporting somebody else, and this is frankly odd, and not something that you will see in any administration. Caitlyn collins is traveling with the president , and joining u live from huntsville, and back to the health care issue, and anybody said anything about senator mccains announcement yet . Well, there have been no official statements yet, john, but we have seen the white house say they will continue that effort, and they are not ready to give up yet, but they say it is no doubt that what mccain said today undeniably hurts the administrations effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. It is surely going to be brought up tonight, and the president is taking the stage here in alabama, and he does not forget when somebody scorns him, and we will go to the president right now, john, and see what he has to say. Singing the songs about the south and ill play it again well i heard mr. Young sing about it well i heard old neil put her down well, i hope that neil young will remember a south man dont need him around anyhow sweet home alabama where the skies are so blue sweet home alabama lord im coming home to you thank you. Thank you very much. Wow. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. I love this place. And you know we set every record in alabama. I love alabama. It is special. Thank you very much. [ crowd chanting usa ] well, i am. I am thrill ed to be here with the really great person that i have gotten to know Luther Strange, and with the hard working patriotic citizens of this great state, and you is some Football Games tomorrow, but we are going the have a lot of fun, and then you will win at football tomorrow. I love this state, and i love the people of this state. They have been so good to me. And we are producing. We are really producing. Thank you. Thank you. And on tuesday, we are going to send a real fighter and a real good guy from alabama to the United States senate on a permanent basis. And we have another great nern the a person in the audience tonight. Mr. Richard shelby. Where is richard . Where is richard . Thank you, richard. Stand up so they can see you, richard. Fantastic. Thank you, richard. Respected manx and i will tell you that he is respected and loved in the senate, and he has only been there for Something Like 34 years or Something Like that, right . But he loves the people of alabama, too. And like all of you, Luther Strange knows the true source of americas strength. It is god, it is family and it is country. And luther is going to be taking over for a man that you all love whats his name, huh . Senator Jeff Sessions. And you loved Jeff Sessions. He is doing a good job. He is doing a good job. We have him very busy watching the borders and lot of things are happening, but luther is taking over for jeff hopefully, and you are going to be so impressed with what we are going to do in washington. But before we begin, i want to send our thoughts and prayers to the people of texas and louisiana and georgia and florida and puerto rico and the rir gin eislands and all o an the Virgin Islands and all of the places that have been ravaged by floods. The other day i spoke to your governor and i said how are you doing . And she said, well, we have 17 Million People who just entered alabama for shelter, and you took such great care of those people. You really did. I said, governor, you are the Fastest Growing state of anywhere in the world this week, and you really did, you did a great job, and your governor is doing a great job, too, by the way. When one part of america hurts, we all hurt. We grieve offaver all that has n lost, but driven by the strength and the resilience of the people, and together, we will recover and rebuild and return bigger, better, stronger than ever before and it is going to happen, and happen quickly, quickly. Better. We also send our prayers to the people of mexico. They got hit hard by a devastating earthquake. Taken a lot of lives and lot more than they even thought. I have spoken with the president of mexico and we have pledged our full support, and we are crews in there lifting up the heavy concrete, and it is a rough sight. A rough sight. We have a lot of people that we sent down with a lot of big equipment, but it is a tough go. It is a really tough thing to look at and to see and to see the sadness, but that is bad. I have just come from a very productive weekt at the United Nations general assembly. Ooh. [ crowd chanting usa ] and we have been working with the friends and allies to ensure a future of prosperity and peace, and we have some really good people that we know and tremendous relationships and some really, really bad people, and we are going to be taking care of the bad people. And it is about time. We are going to be taking care of the bad people. It is one of the greatest honors of my life to represent the American People on that world stage, and i will tell you the world is starting to respect the United States of america again. As i said during my address to the United Nations, i will always defend americas interests above all else. I am here for you, and im not here for global interests, and we are not here for the rest of the globe, and we want to treat the rest of the globe right, and you know, when i say America First and everybody say, gee, i never liked it from the standpoint that you want your Country First from the leader, but for years they have said America First, but aim ti am th who really means it. There is a big difference. And i said, look, it is going to be America First, and we are going to renegotiate the trade deals and bring people back, and the companies back, and you can see it in alabama. You can see it in alabama. But i am not going to worry so much about other countries. I want to treat them with respect, and treat them good, and i want their people to fight for them, and just like i am going to fight, but we are going to be like the football teams. We are going to win all of time. Believe me. I believe the best path to a more Peaceful World are proud, independent and sovereign nations that serve and respk their own people. When you are looking at what is going on in the world, there are so many who dont respect their people, but we want nations that cooperate together to create better for all people. That is what we are all about, and we cant have mad men out there shooting rockets all over the place. And by the way, rocketman should have been handled a long time ago. He should have been handled a long time ago by clinton i wont mention the republicans, right, but by obama, and this is a different, and this is a different time. This should have been handled eight years ago and four years ago, and honestly, and 15 years ago and 20er year eyears ago an years ago and this should not be handled now sh, but i am going handle it, because we have to handle it. Little rocketman, and we are going to do it because we really have no choice. We really have no choice. Now, he is talking about a massive weapon exploding over to the ocean. Pacific ocean. Which causes tremendous, tremendous calamity where that plume goes, so goes cancer and so goes tremendous problems, and i want to tell you something, and i am sure that he is listening, because he watches every word, and i will guarantee you one thing that he is watching us like he never watched anybody before, and that i can tell you. They can tell you. That i can tell you. And maybe something gets worked out, and maybe it doesnt, and personally, i am not sure that it will. Other people like to say, oh, we want peace, and they have been saying now for 25 years, oh, we want peace, we want peace, and h then he just keeps going, and going, and going, and maybe something works out and maybe it doesnt, but i will tell you one thing that you are protected. Okay. You are protected, and nobody is going to mes wis with our peopl and nobody is going to play games and nobody is going to be putting our people in that kind of danger. Nobody. And japan and south korea are right up there with us, and by t the way, many other countries, and many, many other countries, and they are right up there with us, and i have to tell you that i made a friend in china, president xi, and yesterday, he basically took the Banking Industry away from north korea. Never been done before. Never been done. That is based on relationship. And relationship is very good, but we are dealing with somebody that we will figure out. He may be smart, and he may be strategic, and he may be totally crazy, but you know what, no matter what he is, we are going to handle it, folks. Believe me, we are going to handle it. The foundation for progress begins at home with the government that protects and defends our citizens. That is what we have to do. That is why im here tonight to ask the good people of alabama to send Luther Strange to the United States senate so he can defend your interest, fight for your values and always put America First. Go out and get out the vote. And i will just tell you this quick crazy story and why do i like luther and so some of my friends called and said, can you go with the other candidate and i said, yes, they feel, and of course they may not have a job on monday, right, richard . [ laughter ] and so this is a speech to pr and so this is a speech to prop up Luther Strange, and to defeat roy moore who has the support of sarah palin, and steve bannon and breitbart, and we will lis nen a littten in a and you know, they like to say, President Trump is sitting in the oval office and not doing anything. And i am on the phone in the office for weeks yelling at people. And they gave me a list of ten republican senators, and now, john mccains list john mccain was not on the list, so that sis a totally unexpected thing. Terrib terrible. Honestly, terrible, and repeal and replace, and if you are looking at the last campaign, i was about repeal and replace. Repeal and replace, and so he decided to do something different, and that is fine, and i say, we still have a chance to oh, we will do it eventually, and with luther and even, we are going to do this, but i have to tell you this story, because we are here tonight for luther, strange and i am here sort of for luther, and i am here because it is a friday night, and really do love the people of alabama, because you have treated me so nice. And in fact, i said, e dont want to speak negatively, but i said though that if i lose this election, maybe i will end up moving to alabama or kentucky or some states, i mean, nice to the go where people love you and where you love them, because it is special. And so here is what happened. Here is what happened, but we never want to lose, right . Despite that, we dont want to lose, because we have a great agenda, and by the way, we are doing a lot of work, and getting a lot of things done, and they hate to admit it, and including a Supreme Court justice judge gorsuch who is going to save something by the way called your Second Amendment. And remember that . If crooked hillary had been elected you would not be having a Second Amendment and you would be handing in the the rifles and here, here they are. And you would be like you would be turning over your rifles. [ inaudible ] you have got to speak to Jeff Sessions about that. So, heres what happened with luther. So luther and get this list of ten names of people who are absolute total nos, and they were good people, and in all fairness rand paul was on that list and they said dont waste your time calling him, and he voted twice yes, and very good, and i have not given up on him, because i believe he may come around, okay. Wouldnt it be ironic if he took john mccains place, and they defini definitely do not like each other, and wouldnt that be eye ron ic, and very ironic for those of you who know the inner workings of the senate. And so luther, and i have a list and one of the names is Luther Strange and i know that he is the senator from alabama and i dont know him, but i met him once and i said, that is the tallest human being i have ever seen. I am tall and i never saw anything like that, and he should be on the new york knicks, because that i could use him, and that is why i call him big luther, and everybody is now calling him big luther, and so i have to tell you that i call up to different people, and well, mr. President , could ju dinner with my wife, my kids, my cousins and uncles and i would like to talk to you about it. So they come over with the family, and pictures all night, everything. Okay. So i will get a vote or i wont, but brutal, brutal. And you know what that is, folks . It is called brutality, and soy call another one, and i say, senator, we need the vote, and i know that you are opposed to it, but i think that i can get there, but you have to do me afare and you have to see my brother and his wife and they love you and they want to have dinner with you, and they want to have breakfast with you and lunch. And then after you finish with them, how about well go out for a picnic someplace out there on the white house lawn and after that, then maybe we will start to talk about it. And oh, my it was brutal. You have no idea. And now i call Luther Strange, and oh, i have to call this guy, and he is a no, right. And i say, senator, i need your help. I said, i got to get your vote on health care, and he says, you got it. I said, what do you mean i have it . Because i have been hammered by all of these people, right . What do you mean i have it. He said, sir, i was with you from the beginning, and i knew that you were going to the win, and you would win the whole thing and i have been for you and the my family has been for you, and honestly, mr. President , if you want my vote you have it. And i said, do i have to meet you someplace, and meet the family and i think that his wife is fantastic, but i said, do i have to have dinner with no, sir, nothing, because i have supported