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Messy and complicated process they're walking into and why so many of them are so undecided is because if there is an open amendment process, you think about the last couple of weeks and how sort of conflicting this debate has been, some of the moderates are going to propose amendments that the conservatives are not going to light and potentially vote down. the conservatives will propose amendments that the moderates are not going to ic loo. we are going to see potentially more infighting and more of these tensions sort of flare up. a lot of these feel like do we even want to take these votes ...

>> the ideal world would be they would have had an agreed-upon bill, put up as a substitute amendment, and you would go into what is a very long multiple amendment after amendment after amendment process, knowing at the end this was going to be there, that was the ultimate end game and that's what you were going to vote on. that's the part that's -- and they still haven't figured out a way to compromise. if they vote tomorrow, as they are schedule to do do, to move onto the debate. what they will have is a wild west amendment process anybody can put up anything, but there's no end game there. ...

Willing to debate it on the floor. >> reporter: as one gop aide told cnn, forcing the vote serves to smoke members out on their positions and dare to sink an issue they campaigned on for seven years and making clear that even a failed vote this week may not kill the process overall. >> what will happen if and when that were to occur is we'll go back to the drawing board and we'll get a bill up. we are going to vote to repeal and replace obamacare. the question is not a question of if, it's a question of when. >> reporter: and, wolf, at this very moment, vice-president mike pence is on capitol ...

Amendment process and this bill can pass. but not a lot of evidence so far that there are enough votes to even open up the debate yet. >> i want to turn to another front on which the white house is pushing and spinning pretty hard today and that's questions about this additional one-on-one time that president trump spent with vladimir putin at the couple's dinner at the g20. susan, just in the context of the conversations that we had day after day after day, if this were a one-on-one conversation with any other president or with this president with any other leader, i imagine we wouldn't be ta...

It is as difficult a position as he's found himself in throughout the process, and it comes at a time where they're missing another vote in senator john mccain and they have no idea when he will be able to return here to be a part of the process. >> obviously his health is a factor in all of this. >> oh, it absolutely is. it was a factor this morning. there was a plan to release the congressional budget office score, and their hope was that tomorrow the bill would be up for the motion to proceed which would essentially open up the debate on the house floor and begin the amendment process. that...