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Where people stand. the house bill and senate bill are so widely different and so far apart. there's pressure for the leadership in the gop to get the house bill sponsored primarily from the house judiciary committee and put it to the floor and vote. everybody's got to know it's d.o.a. in the senate. >> it's a challenge to leadership. here we're talking about mitch mcconnell in specific and what he's willing to do. if he brings it and loses it and you see there's about four republicans not voting for the bill, it creates a whole dynamic. he'd rather have the bill fail with his voting for it to...

Stand. the house bill and the senate bill are wildly different. so far apart. you know there's pressure for the leadership in the gop to get the house bill sponsored primarily by congressman goodlatte, put to it the floor, put to it a vote. everybody has to know it's doa in the senate. >> right, this is a challenge to leadership. here we're talking about mitch mcconnell in specific. and what he's willing to do. because if he brings it and he loses, you know, you see there are about four republicans not voting for the bill, then it creates a whole new dynamic. he'd rather have the bill fail wit...

Reality is they need 50 votes to be able to move forward on that. the reality also is they don't have 50 votes at least as of this morning to move forward on that procedural vote. as long as they don't have the votes they can't move on to the actual debate on the bill. look, john, you know this process and this place quite well. what they're doing behind the scenes now is really kind of twisting arms pushing members saying you will be able to offer whatever amendment you want. make the bill look how you want it to make. we just need to start debate on this process. allow us to start debate. th...

Just to get a vote on an amendment but because of this process, it allows anybody to offer an amendment to this bill so what does that mean. a number of republican senators would have had to take a lot of very, very tough votes, very politically poisonous votes, things that could hurt them in their own campaigns so there was a lot of skepticism from the senators they talked to that mcconnell would be really willing to go through a entire process knowing that the bill would go down, knowing that members would take tough votes just to see the bill fail at the end of the day, which is one calcula...

Welcome back, you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. just went public just a few hours ago. the senate republican plan to replace obamacare appears to be dead on arrival, but we still have time yet. these four republican senators say they will vote against the plan drafted behind closed doors by their leadership. republicans can only afford to lose two votes, and so with four holdouts, that is obviously two more than they can lose. here is kentucky senator and republican rand paul on why he says he will not support it as of now. >> the intention's not to take down the bill. the intention is ...