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Right now? >> you know, it's impossible to tell. i do think that this bill is going to go down. dean heller is going to lose for sure if he votes for this bill. susan collins is not going to vote for the bill. >> rand paul isn't going to vote for the bill, i don't think. >> yeah, that's it. that's enough. but i think there are others. you know, once the ship is sinking, there are going to be a whole lot of people who are not going to want to be on the sinking ship. so this thing could be as much as ten votes short. i'm not saying that it couldn't pass. you know, this past two years has been th...

Do, keeping the republicans together on health care as john boehner pointed out a while ago is almost impossible, especially if the approval rating of that bill is 17%. so they have to explain it better, and they have to try to explain to all their colleague what is they are trying to do and what they are trying to accomplish. we all want to repeal and replace. but the replacement the key, and they haven't explained the replacement very well. >> steve, and as your party sees it, a 35% president couldn't pass a 17% repeal and replace. >> right. >> we all agree everything inside the 495 beltway ...

What is they are trying to do and what they are trying to accomplish. we all want to repeal and replace. but the replacement the key, and they haven't explained the replacement very well. >> all right, steve. and as your party sees it, a 35% president couldn't pass a 17% repeal and replace. >> right. >> we all agree everything inside the 495 beltway circle is broken. so if i named you party chairman and majority leader and asked you for something you think you could reach across, get some votes on and pass in a country that's still -- we still insist we want to see cooperation, what would that...

They? let's bring back our panel. i want to start with you because conventional wisdom is president trump would be the loser. the republicans have been trying to figure this out for 8 years. he has been in office for two months. how is this on his head. >> he has already blamed the congressional republicans and particularly putting together a bill that couldn't pass and putting it first and their legislative agenda but the truth is everyone really loses.

Means. the speaker has kind of gone out on this limb and said this is our one shot. i would be really surprised if they put a bill on the floor if they knew that it couldn't pass. maybe they would if they knew they were within a handful of votes and they just have to see what might happen. but if this were to go down on the floor it would be very unusual and pretty spectacular failure, i think. >> donny deutsche, what about the fact he was going to help all of his people? >> you know what a win for trump is? that no bill gets through and he has to own it and no way the math ads up unless you t...