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That would set in motion a bigger procedural vote for wednesday. here is the thing. the bill is not done. like there s not words on a piece of paper that are finalized for the text yet. schumer s deadline for some republicans not sitting so well. chuck schumer with all due respect is not writing the bill. how can i vote for cloture when the bill isn t written? then you have this $3.5 trillion democrats only deal, schumer has his own caucus on wednesday deadline to try to come together on that and here s how playbook from politico frames it this morning, with schumer channeling his inner mitch mcconnell, they write, saying his hardball move is meant to test whether republicans who say they want bipartisanship mean it, but also to strongarm his own ideologically diverse caucus into line on that massive reconciliation bill. i m joined by democratic senate, mazie hirono from hawaii. thanks for being back on the show. good morning. ....
Proceedings right now as we speak, wolf. how many republicans on that foreign relations committee, manu are still undecided? we know marco rubio, he has been one. he hasn t said what he s going to do. what about any other any other republicans who could vote against the tillerson confirmation? reporter: in the committee just marco rubio, we don t know where he stands yet. he s still undecided. we don t know how some of the democrats are going to come down, bob corker telling me he has not had a conversation with marco rubio but if he doesn t get the votes in that committee, he says tillerson will still get confirmed, still use a hardball move to ensure that tillerson is the next secretary of state no matter what happens in the foreign relations committee. so watch for that to really come to a head here in the next few days, wolf. all right. manu, we re going to stay in very close touch with you, manu just outside the senate hearing room where betsy devos is about to make her op ....