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Let's say jeff sessions were no longer the attorney general. can you imagine, can you imagine the confirmation hearings for whomever followed jeff sessions? i have a hard time, frankly, seeing anybody get through that right now, anybody, no matter how good they were, as a simple matter of partisanship combined with the hand wringing of many of the republicans in the senate, in a 52/48 senate where john mccain may or may not be available to vote anyway and he'd be one of the hand wringers. >> i hear on that. david gregory was making a similar point but i don't -- let's dig into that for just on...

Senators mike lee and jerry more ran issuing separate statements joining senators rand paul and susan collins in opposition. with just a 52/48 majority in the senate. this means the majority leader mitch mcconnell no longer has the votes needed to move ahead on the bill. president trump reacting by calling on republicans to repeal obamacare and start from a clean slate. the search for a 27-year-old man missing in a deadly arizona flash flood has been suspended due to a severe thunderstorm. the father of three children who were among nine relatives killed in rushing waters in tonto national for...

Wore mitch mcconnell allow a vote to come you and they might lose? >> i don't think there will abe vote next thursday unless they have the votes. >> i don't think that will be sort of the first go at it for mitch mcconnell and he's unlikely to bring bill that would fail had the miz his goal is to pass something the you can tell he and john mccain have different jobs had the john mccain's job is to not to get 51 votes. mitch mcconnell slg to take all that heat right now because he thinks that's the best way can he get to 51 votes. >> because he's got to worry about there's only 52/48 majority m...

Hearings, with very little if any debate. >> but whatever emerges from the senate, you're not suggesting, are you, senator, that as far as health care legislation is concerned, what already passed the house of representatives can get through the september? it would be a very different kind of senate legislation, right? >> it wouldn't be a very different kind of senate bill. i don't know what they can do to make sure that 23 million people are not kicked off of health care. maybe they'll decrease that to 13 million. it's still bad. and they're still going to make maj major changes to medicaid a...

Of congress. >> i wonder how democrats feel about that. and also do democrats say where were these people in november? >> no. they voted. i think those people voted. but you have nearly half the country that doesn't vote. that's largest political party in america, nonvoter party. then the other half is kind of usually 52/48 split one way or the other. what you've got coming up this saturday with the dnc, you had the debate on last night, is that the democrats have a real chance to change things. and i know that there's 400 members plus on the dnc, if any of them are watching right now, you've ...