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President is dealing of foreign policy and domestic policy, helping to drive one last effort to repeal and replace obamacare, throwing his full support behind the graham/cassidy bill answering some shade at senator rand paul for opposing graham/cassidy as another boondoggle. the president saying this morning, rand paul is a friend of mine, but he has such a negative force when it comes to fixing health care. graham/cassidy bill is great and obamacare. i hope they will vote for graham-cassidy and replace obamacare. money direct to the states. there been some meetings on capitol hill. we're told...

They turned some screws and it sailed right through -- it didn't sale right through the house but it got through the house and here we are. >> okay, heidi, had this is where you come in. if mcconnell called a midnight vote tonight right now, would they have the votes? >> i think not. and that's why many senators went home. what was critical, but i think missed tonight, brian, is the fact that lisa murkowski, the alaska senator was given a very strong signal from her governor who was one of the signees on that letter urging the senate to scrap this, to go back to the negotiating table and try t...

>> i think not. and that's why many senators went home. what was critical, but i think missed tonight, brian, is the fact that lisa murkowski, the alaska senator, was given a very strong signal from her governor who was one of the signees on that letter urging the senate to scrap this, to go back to the negotiating table and try to fix obamacare, try and do something bipartisan. why is that significant? because as you said at the top of the show, they can only afford to lose a handful of senators. they've already lost two in senators collins and paul. senator mccain is likely to go the way of ...

Aside so they can make their conclusion, but we're talking about health care.33 of our economy, there was an estimate that was put out last year that said about 2017 we have 11.4 million people on obamacare. considering those odds that we know there has to be some form of money still on the table and we can just say, we're going to string it down, i doping that makes sense at this point. we can continue the conversations and try to get as may people on board as possible, but we have to do something because 45% of counties by next year, will only have one insurer or none at all. it's as it has ...

It >> senators will be voting blind. they say justice is blind. the senators on the other side of the aisle should be walking around here with a blindfold over their eyes. because they don't know what they are voting on. maybe they don't care. >> there is also a bipartisan effort on capitol hill led by republican lamar alexander of tennessee and patty murray of washington to try to fix obamacare by the end of the month. it is clear this late push has alarmed democrats and outside groups. >> julie: all right, thank you very much, mike emanuel. >> jon: we are closely watching what's happening in...