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Who are pretty perturbed and using -- some of them maybe using colorful language to describe what's happening there on the hill. but let's be clear. republicans as well. i remember reading guidance last week saying a lot of these are republicans were irked that they would have to linger around for another five to seven days to vote on something that thus far hasn't had the votes. >> reporter: yeah, and i just want to be clear. in talking about sort of the mood within the republican conference right now, this is not a situation where these republican senators are joyful to be voting for this bi...

Expert witnesses and find the best pathway forward. if it goes just like proceed and we'll fix everything if you get on the bill, and well they control the amendments. they can basically shut off the amendment process. they have so much -- it's not the right way to do it. it has not gone through the orderly process. we said put it back in the committee. that's the vote should be taken. >> well it's not just democrats that are feeling the way you are. republican the are too. republican counter part in west virginia, shelly, she's on the ferchs abo fence about voting for something to repeat befo...

>> reporter: this is the moment we've been waiting for. a vote is scheduled this afternoon on at least the motion to proceed to the senate health care bill. what does that mean? that means to start the process off. you can't even start the debate let alone the amendment process until senators get 50 votes on this vote this afternoon. now, here's the reality. aides make clear they don't believe republican senators have the votes yet. they believe they're short of that magic number of 50. but there is heavy, heavy pressure, not just from senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, even the rank and ...

That has created a lot of tension and i think, brooke, we're talking about sort of this bizarre situation right now where the lack of a plan from mitch mcconnell has almost worked out better for him than a plan. remember, he has tried many times to get senators behind an actual bill, an actual proposal. the repeal and replace bill version one. that didn't have new senators. a repeal and replace bill version two, that did not have enough senators and so then he moved on to the repeal only bill ask that drew a lot of concern as well. and finally, now that he has said, look, then we're going to m...

Heading into. but it's important to note and i've had republican aides and frankly senate majority leader mcconnell make this point repeatedly. you can't move on unless you get past this first procedural vote and brooke, don't undercount the importance of momentum. each step in this process gets them closer to the finish. each step in this process makes it chb more complicated to oppose and i'll say another thing, when this process is all said and done, it will likely be at 4:00 or 5:00 in the morning. that is a difficult vote for an exhausted senator to vote against given all the work they've...