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Stories throughout the morning. another very busy morning along with joe, willie and me. we have washington anchor here. good to have you on board this morning. republicans have until next saturday to pass a bill to repeal obamacare. that race seems to have been ignoring earlier principals. varied on page 95 is a provision that exists alaska and montana. the provision is seen -- >> so this is like a corn husker kickback 2017 style. >> times two. >> exactly. >> let me tell you something right now. i have been critical of my republican brothers and sisters.

Show their value? >> they are going to walk away with a $5,000 bonus. >> i thought we were being serious. >> this seems obvious. i cannot tell you how important this is for women. this is a hard proposition to go out there, not just know your value but to sell yourself on stage is hard. and this is great. >> i love it. >> five years since you put the book out, and we've done different events, i can't tell you how many women's lives have been changed. i wouldn't say it if it weren't the truth. it's incredible. put it up one more time. this time when you go to the site, you can actually get tick...

And say here's the plan and they probably go for it. that's not this president. >> how does senator mitch mcconnell satisfy the two wings of his party on this? what can he come up with? >> i have no idea. he can try to pick them off one by one. he can put some money in for opioid treatment. >> like the corn husker deal years ago. >> exactly. a deal for portman on opioids and sort of side deals. he starts doing that and you see corn husker deals come up. they're not going to like that very much and they might be out. you have all these different factions. >> i was trying to think like what is t...

Take partisans out of it and you accomplish moderate reform that isn't super liberal and isn't super conservative, but it's right in the middle and what we need. >> what do you think about that idea? first of all, he didn't accomplish anything here. >> he didn't. it's a long process. it's a long process. i think in the end, you will see democrats come around because obamacare's on a death spiral. in the end, you are going to get meaningful health care reform, not hyperpartisan liberal reform, only passed because the corn husker kicked back in the louisiana purchase had to shell out deals to --...

Kickback or anything that was seen as a special carrot to some states. >> on the one hand, this always happens when you pass a law. there's always side deals and special ways to make it work to get votes. on the other hand, you're absolutely right. this was an enormous hew and cry. indeed, the special election of scott brown and the senate here in massachusetts, the corn husker kickback was listed as one of the number one issues for electing a republican senator. it's really, incredibly ironic after they did that with obamacare, they'll come back and do the same thing to get their bill passed....