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I was a sitting member of congress and we had to file those public disclosure forms. that is a moment where you understand you have a responsibility for integrity. do you get a few things wrong? sure. but there's an amendment process. from this administration and public filings to simply chalk it up to incompetence. if it is all incompetence, we have a bigger problem than we realize. >> i see it the same way. he had one opportunity to get it right and he didn't. then he had an opportunity to amend it and if these stories are correct, and now we're at the second amendment, it doesn't make it lo...

General jack keane, i was good to see you. we have this news breaking in the last hour. senate g.o.p. leaders are planning to vote on legislation to repeal large chunks of the affordable tv health care act. watch this. >> something as important as this, to say that we are having regular order, to say that we are having an amendment process, and all due respect, is a joke. >> martha: what about all those calls that we had last week for more unity and perhaps a little bit of coming together? we will talk about that. plus, suspected terror and two european capitals in the last 24 hours. what will...

Scratch. they're not bound by what's in the house bill. they'll be respectful of it and take a look. we'll draft our own bill in the senate. we'll take a look at that. i hope it will be a free and open amendment process. that not only will we have the opportunity to get some of our ideas into the leadership bill, but we may end up offering our own bill. and i home it might be bipartisan. >> you're still going to work on the bill while leadership does its thing? >> we have adapted, and it is a work in progress. i don't want to suggest there -- working with her staff, taking the cost did i colli...

Bill. does he have the support he needs. >> this is a key week. they will take it on the house floor by thursday or friday. they have some additional conservatives on board. they need 218 and there are several dozen who may not like it and some are conservatives and some are moderates. they need to bring everybody in to get up to 218. they will not get any democrats. it's all on the republicans. i think they can pull it off in the house if not this week, then eventually, the tricky part will be in the senate where there is a smaller majority and they can afford to lose a couple votes but alrea...

They've got to test the water. >> sean: and the amendment process where no one has any idea how it's going to come out. am i so unrealistic -- i'm sorry. >> i was just going to say, as vice president pence has pointed out, now the process goes forward, we suspect -- we don't know, but i suspect -- there might be one or two amendments in order by the time i get to the floor. conservatives have a real shot at amending it. then paul ryan, with the help of the president and vice president, has to get a majority of the vote to go to the senate. the senate is going to be very different. you're going...