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I think those are good things and when they focus on the budget side, that's probably a good thing. >> cherry picking? you decide yourself. more now what led up to the gop decision to punt for the time being on replacing obamacare. phil mattingly joins us now. do you have any sense how far away they are from getting the votes they need? >> reporter: very far, to put it plainly. within an hour of senator mcconnell telling his conference that they would be waiting until after july fourth to vote on this bill, three new republican senators came out and opposed the discussion draft. that brings it...

And forth for the last couple weeks. we'll see when those are released whether or not that's enough to get those wary senators, the senators already opposed to that initial discussion draft in line, wolf. >> phil, thank you. phil mattingly on capitol hill. the new bill's effect on medicaid coverage is one of the biggest sticking points so far, but from the white house, we have heard two very different messages on the issue. >> these are not cuts to medicaid, george. this slows the rate for the future and it allows governors more flexibility with medicaid dollars because they're closest to th...

You can only lose two. it's more difficult to get it passed in the senate then the house. senators hold a lot of power. we have seen at least five different holdouts that are going to try to extract something from the conversations. there was a reason why mitch mcconnell released it as a discussion draft because he knew there was going to have to be some give and take done. i think republicans are looking at what happened from democrats. i was at the nrc seen during the 2010 election cycle. obamacare, they were showing it cost democrats at the polls. same thing in 2014, 2016. seems to be a big...

Remember, this was, they called it a discussion draft they put out last week. essentially a starting point, a way to get the ball rolling on getting those cost estimates from cbo. there have been some questions about essentially if you are somebody who doesn't have insurance under this new plan and you get sick and you want to sign up for insurance, can you just do that, or do you have to wait for a certain period of time or be charged more money for that insurance because you weren't participating in it when maybe you should have been. so there's been some concern from the insurance industry ...

Which means we use less. three generations of clothes cleaned in one wash. those are moms. anybody seen my pants? nothing cleans better. put those on dad! it's got to be tide. >> republicans believe we have a responsibility to act and we are. for our constituents, our state, and for our country. >> senate republicans released a much-anticipated discussion draft of the healthcare plan on thursday. seven weeks after the house passed their own plan to repeal and replace obamacare. what is inside the senate bill? and how does it differ from the houses version?'s less ask troy, the president of the...