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Before lawmakers before they leave for the break. we'll bring you that interview. in the meantime, here is an interesting political fact for the republicans. they have wanted to do this since the day obamacare was enacted. look at our polling . it's actually fairly popular. 47% say they like the health care law. if you look at march 2010 perry made note of this before when it was passed because of the month long debate it was pretty unpopular. now that the american hear republicans might take things away, they might disrupt the system, this is much more dicey. she's retiring. she's not a rebel...

The house, it was 0-5. now if they let mcconnell lead, there's actually a chance to broaden the scope here. for him to sit down with chuck schumer and say, rather than go with 52-48 on reconciliation version of ahca that's amended, why don't we work together on this, merge it with infrastructure, merge it with immigration reform, merge it the 350-ship navy. what this vote today gives mitch mcconnell the biggest hammer he's alwaever had and always wa as leader of the senate. i'm looking at him as master of the senate to work with another master of the senate, chuck schumer, to bring together bi...

Public option should be part of affordable care act. one, do you see democrats moving in a direction after this hoopla over ahca dies down? and two, has there been any talk from republicans wanting to support some of that to address challenges and short falls of affirm ca. >> harold, as you know, the public option was in the house bill. as you also know because the republicans thought they could defeat the affordable care act by not going to conference in the senate, we couldn't get the 60 votes to go to conference, so we took the senate bill, which did not have a public option. therefore, you...

Time to decide what do or how to do it, now is the time to do it. and in about public party leadership tried to allay concerns over pre-existing conditions coverage. >> our bill protects people with pre-existing conditions and actually provides multiple layers of protection in ways that obamacare doesn't do. >> but republican fred upton swing to a no is an ominous sign bringing the nbc news whip count to 21. he's the former chairman of one of the committees that authored the original ahca and latest plans of pre-existing coverage is what dissuaded him from supporting it. his reservations are r...

Strategy about how to get the votes to pass this latest iteration of their plan. vice president pence is in another area of the capital, holding audiences with members of the gop, some wavering on whether or not to support this plan. there's a reporter chasing senators around asking how they feel about him referring to senate core warren as pocahon s pocahontas. and then we see president obama say the bill is not in its final form yet. that was not helpful as they try to gather the votes for this. you need to look no further than a congressman from springfield, missouri, representative billy l...