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Far more complicated than the house with the senatary more complicated rules. the majority leader needs everything to line up just right. he needs to use party pressure which mitch mcconnell has chosen not to do. he needs to express confidence i he never has. and he needs momentum. he needs to move as fast as possible, which mcconnell has deliberately not done. today mitch mcconnell admitted publicly in his home state of kentucky that the republicans might never be able to agree on a bill. >> if my side is unable to agree on an adequate replacement, then some kind of action on -- with regard t...

The signs are out there that the economy is looking shaky. >> well, the signs are that consumers are taking their foot off the throttle a little bit. the notion that we have to do something to prop up the markets or the markets are so round around the axle. the notion that the people in the markets are not paying close attention to the news and the analysis and the state of the politics. i.e., they think it's a slam dunk, the tax cuts will pass and the markets will collapse if they don't pass, that's a fallacy. they're watching this show, watching closely. they have their finger on the pulse. ...

Chairman, the vice chairman of the intelligence committee in the senate leading the investigation and walked out of a meeting with rod rosenstein yesterday, a surprise meeting on the hill, and he had this to say in reaction to the president's comments about jim comey personally. >> i trusted jim comey. i thought he had made some mistakes last fall but never called for his resignation. it thought he was a straight shooter and frankly, i'm offended at the president's comments today. this is a continuing pattern of disrespecting the men and women who serve in our intelligence community. >> report...

Repail obar repeal obamacare. i think the consequences of failure would be catastrophic. >> do you agree with that? that if republicans in the senate don't pass something and then the two bodies don't come to pass something, that would be horrible for republicans? >> i do agree because people are burdened by the high cost of insurance. they want the issue resolved. they have expectations that congress is going to resolve this issue. they want a patient-centered health care system and they expect us to deliver on this and work through those expectations is important. back to bakari and jen with...

Over. >> but steve rattner it's not an either/or. it's not a you vote for donald trump or hillary clinton. there is a third option. you actually do regular order. you go through the process, do all the things that republicans and the house accused harry reid in the senate of not doing. use the process. >> sure. they could have gone through the process. there's obviously a lot of political pressure to get this done before the recess that they're going on tomorrow. there's a lot of political pressure from the white house just to get it done. even if you went to regular order they're still faced ...