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That were coming and that can be territory for the investigators to explore. but it's also really interesting, anderson, he's one of a group of politicians on the right, you know, who almost take pleasure in walking through fire and surviving. there's something about it, you know, i dare you, you can't hit me, i can hit you harder, i'm smarter and i'll get away with this. and you can't -- you can't write that off in this situation. you know, i think -- i'm not sure he's in as much legal trouble as robby suggests. i think he's in political trouble but let's wait and see about the legal trouble....

Their constituents and the problem from the republicans is they get it from both sides. they're going to hear people who are complaining about not wanting to lose their health care and they're also going to hear from people who have said, you promised that you were going to repeopal obama care. so they are very much caught in the middle of this campaign promise they've been making over and over over the last many years and the fact they're in position to take away health care from a certain number of people. as you can see in what we just watched, how personal it is. it's hard to think of many...

Other republicans this bill with more heart. this is sort of what happened in the house. they had to roll one side or the other and they actually rolled the moderates in the house and they chose an approach that he later called mean but celebrated at that time. now the moderates in the senate who have much more influence because of the smaller number there is, smaller margins there, they want him to roll the conservatives. i don't know how they get where they're going. i never want to underestimate mitch mcconnell who's a wiley coyote, but it's very hard to see how this additional time when th...

On the other side. what they're also, you know, sort of holding out hope here is that they know they have to get something. we talked to senator mcconnell, leader mcconnell, after he walked out of the west wing. this is not what he wanted. he wanted this to be done by the end of the week. that, of course, wasn't going to happen. but he said the option is, they have to get something done or they will work with senator schumer, work with democrats and republicans, of course, don't want that. anderson, as dana was just saying earlier, we don't know if this will get done or not here. so they don't...

I'm just killing myself slowly without putting the gun to my head. >> gary joins us now. has the executive director you talked to, has he heard back from senator collins? >> reporter: well, bob fowler, anderson, tells us he likes senator collins very much, has high regards from her and heard from one of her aides that she is aware of his letter and, quote, his letter will be, according to them, instrumental. he says that he believes he knows senator collins, that he will never vote for a bill that's in this form or anywhere close to this form. anderson? >> all right. gary, thanks very much. we...