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>> reporter: so adequate time in this case means if we see that discussion draft on thursday, as has been planned, they anticipate votes could happen as soon as the following thursday or friday. that's just about a week for americans to read this bill. >> i need my panel to weigh in. elise jordan, you worked with rand paul. you are a republican. mitch mcconnell's argument that there's going to be ample time, i am not a graduate of the evelyn woods speed reading school. is that for real? >> that was one of senator paul's favorite lines during the campaign was that he wanted to introduce a bill ...

Care act, they are doing the same thing. >> we do have a new timeline for information about the bill, stephanie is right, it's being super fast tracked here. mitch mcconnell says he'll reveal what he calls a discussion draft publicly tomorrow, a cbo score is expected by monday or tuesday. mcconnell says he wants a vote by thursday. can you imagine the bill might get released on thursday with a score on monday or tuesday for a vote on thursday. republicans need 50 votes for it to pass, meaning three votes against it -- three people vote against it, the bill fails. >> i can't imagine mitch mccon...

Poised to have deeper medicaid cuts than the house bill. >> right, absolutely, one thing that's been surprising about this senate bill is that it moves a little bit further to the right than the house bill even does in terms of medicaid cuts. that's something that could further alien ate moderates from supporting this bill. that's been a little bit surprising because the thought all along was you need to get moderates on board. as republicans gather to look at the discussion draft, whether it could be takens enough things to bring conservatives on and enough to bring the moderates on so they c...

This is a sad day. this is a way to expose with a little humor to expose this time. right now there are literally americans fearing what might be in this bill. for this to be happening in privacy and secrecy is absurd. we didn't get a bill here but what we got is a further affirmation that this is a really destructive process when it comes to working through senate. >> welcome back. that was of course cory booker of new jersey yesterday after he went to the congressional budget office with a group of other democrats to attempt to see the republican health care bill. well, while lawmakers on bo...

Think is what he said last night on the senate floor. i don't know of any women who are in the room. but, you know, this isn't about having a country club health care bill. this is about an open process. >> so, as you heard there, no women. but there's also some criticism about the process from 13 republican senators as well. it's not just democrats that are complaining about this. >> absolutely. some of those dudes, so to speak, senate dudes, are not very happy with what could come out of discussion draft. you people like senator portman who want this phaseout to be over a seven-year time spa...