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Backwards with this. it sounds like they spent the better part of the day figuring out what they can get votes for. >> around lunchtime they started. >> what will you vote for. if you do this, you lose this. this is the wildebeest of legislation. it's parts of all sorts of things that will satisfy some that it is an obamacare repeal and not satisfy others. it takes certaina things away from obamacare. the mandate for individuals to get insurance and the mandate for corporations with more than 50 employees to provide insurance. what that means is that the insurance company got into obamacare on...

Conversation groups. up and down the aisles. >> worth noting, john mccain came to the floor a week after being diagnosed with cancer and gave a stirring speech about how we should revert to regular order and have debates and committees work up a bill the way it's supposed to go. garrett brings up the interesting point he said unless he gets assurances, the house will not simply go with this and they will allow it to be debated and changed and he won't support it. we don't know what he is doing now. he now may be the linchpin on this legislation. >> ron is with us and we are happy to have him w...

Corporations with more than 50 employees to provide insurance. now what that means is the insurance companies got into obamacare on the understanding there would be lots of people insured, and that's how they could cover everybody for preexisting conditions. that's what is being taken way tonight. so what you're taking away is the mechanism by which universal health care can take place. but you're not replacing it with anything. the danger here, as you said, is there are a local whol le lot o senators who don't want this to become law. and the dang fers what happens tonight does become law. >>...

But this is all we have seen thus far. it is not an expression of opinion for people in our line of work to call a little attention to the disgust with what we're seeing. ali velshi joins us in the studio. >> it's crazy. why does the senate, a governing body, a legislature need to do this? find the bill you want. get to it the way you're supposed to get to it. arrange to have the votes for it. and then have a vote. they have completely gone backwards with. this it sounds like they've spent the better part of the day figuring out what they can get votes for. >> around lunchtime they started thr...

That's the committee process developing legislation, health care bill would come out of the health committee and so on. but this moment came as you heard the majority leader say, a disappointing moment. that is an under statement for the republican party that holes the white house, the house, and the senate. there will be no movement forward on health care. lawrence o'donnell whose hour this normally is on reair after airing initially on the east coast is with us by telephone. lawrence, sum up what you just witnessed having spent many years in and around the united states senate. >> i have bee...