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Step. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel joins us live from capitol hill. mike, how's it looking? speak up melissa, there's a real drama going into that procedural vote which should come next hour. you have arizona senator john mccain returning from his own personal health care issue, battling brain cancer. a lot of his colleagues sound fired up that he will be back for this critical step to repeal and replace obamacare. a short time ago, the senate majority leader issued this call to action. >> i hope everyone will seize the moment. i certainly will. only then can we open up a rob...

Scenarios can seem confusing. >> we don't know whether we will be voting on house bill, the first version of the senate bill, the second version of the senate bill, a new version of the senate bill, or 2015 bill that would have repealed the affordable care act now and said somehow we'll figure out a replacement over the next two years. i don't think that's a good approach is. >> arthel: joined me now is luther from alabama. it's good to have you here. >> great to be with you. >> arthel: is the first question to debater not to debate? how will you vote on tuesday? >> the first question is to de...

Promising. >> scheduled next week. earlier in the day he promised that even though they're facing yet another set back, he is committed to finding a way forward on healthcare. take a listen. >> i believe we must continue to push forward now. i regret the effort to repeal an immediately replace the failures of obamacare will not be successful. that doesn't mean we should give up. we will try a different way to bring the american people relief from obamacare. i think we owe them at least that much. >> but the problem that he has now is that the votes just simply aren't there. there are at least ...

Repeal and immediately replace the failures of obamacare will not be successful. that doesn't mean we should give up. we will now try a different way to bring the american people relief from obamacare. i think we owe them at least that much. >> but the problem that mcconnell has right now is that the votes simply aren't there. there are now at least four republican senators who say they will not vote for a straight repeal. even though, mcconnell seems very content to put this bill on the floor for an up or down vote at least to start the debate process. if that happens, unless something change...

Following president trump's new effort to repeal and replace obamacare, and over lunch the president repeatedly said we shouldn't leave town until a new health care bill is on my desk. i want to get some new insight from our correspondents and specialists here. phil mattingly, i want to go to you first to talk about this cbo score. we have this new updated number that is quite significant because we talked about the repeal and replace bill and the price tag there. this is for just the repeal bill. >> yeah, and it's a little bit head spinning to know actually where we are in the debate process,...