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>> we are watching mitch mcconnell live speaking there on the senate floor. we're monitoring that. jill and jonathan are back with me. guys, not to put my own dance card out there but we asked a half dozen republican senators to talk about this. we wanted to talk about taxes. no go. hey, maybe it's a scheduling thing. maybe it's me. you haven't seen a public push on this. >> i don't like promoting my competitors. >> i don't know where you're going with that. >> a very good journalist tweets we're about a day from the final senate vote from the tax bill and still no trigger provision, final bil...

The rest of the month, shep. >> what are democrats saying? there was some talk at one point about possibly both sides working together on something here. what are they saying? >> democrats are talking about what they want next in terms of healthcare reform. you had a bunch of senate leaders sending letters to leader mcconnell saying let's sit down, talk about coverage better and make it more affordable. you had bernie sanders go to kentucky to go on the attack against the senate healthcare reform effort. >> as soon as we defeat this disastrous bill,ly be introducing a medicare for all single p...

Congress would leave washington without a new healthcare bill and ready to go. let your imagination run wild. senator mccain seems to think the draft bill is dead. now we have a new things. tell us about it. >> gop sources say the plan at this stage is to get revised bill text to senators by thursday with the goal of a vote in the senate by late next week. john cornyn is a member of the republican leadership team. he's been talking about the time line. cornyn says he favors voting on this soon, getting it done as soon as possible saying he does not think stringing it out will make the product ...

Republican senators who i just spoke to as they were walk moog that lunch meeting with the vice president were they expect details by the end of this week. senator bob corker saying he expects bill text kind of flushed out proposal by thursday. but i think it's important to note as this is all being lined up right now an ideal scenario they finish up a bill by the end of this week, they get a week to digest it, they get a week to swore it and then by next thursday they would have a vote. but before the lubbch meeting there was also a senate republican working group meeting a smaller group of s...

Seemed to be public and seemed to leak out. first and foremost, the leadership wants to give their members space to actually work out their disagreements and they are real, whether it's the medicaid piece or abortion or the structure of the tax credit or whether it's how far to cut back the regulations imposed by the affordable care act. those issues are extraordinarily complex. they want to shield their members, give them an opportunity to try and figure things out, work things out. but because of that, there's no bill text, no hearings, no real public discussion about it and it's not just fr...