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Leadership in this situation is pulling it down, taking the hit yourself, taking the heat so your members can get off easy on something they did on a regular basis. but in your tease before the commercial break you alluded to the fact for mitch mcconnell, this is about protecting himself, protecting his reputation, this master of the senate which he has so far proven not to be at all and you know, leadership is not forcing members to walk the plank on a vote you know is going to fail. >> but steve, there's the other side of that. which is, the republicans have promised this for seven years now...

>> adam, imagine the situation in the senate now with majority leader who want a vote on this. knowing that that's going to be a problem in both directions. it's going to be a problem for some senators who vote yes. a problem for some senators who vote no. if they are forced to make that choice. and normally when a bill like this becomes hopeless, majority leader doesn't bring it to a vet because why force their members in the difficult spot into a recorded vote that could hurt them in a reelection campaign. what is going on here? >> yeah. that's not leadership. mitch mcconnell will force his ...

>> she vividly recalls her friend's face, the moment he got hit in the temple. she thought she could save him. >> i felt him breathe. >> reporter: she says she was just a few feet away from her friend and co-worker when gunshots slammed all around their office. she never saw the shooter. you almost got hit yourself, right? >> yes. the bullet missed me because we were already -- i was already moving. and so the bullet missed me and it shattered the glass right next to where my head was. >> reporter: he was down, but when laverne says she checked his pulse, it was strong. she and her co-workers ...

Thought someone had dropped a table. before she knew it, she was taking cover and her good friend was gravely injured. she vividly recalls her friend's face, remembers how moments after he got hit in the temple by a gunshot inside their office at the navy yard, she thought she could save him. >> i felt him breathe. >> reporter: she says she was just a few feet away from her friend and co-worker, vishnu pandit, when gun shots slammed all around their office. she never saw the shooter. you almost got hit yourself, right? >> yes. the bullet missed me because we were already -- i was already movin...

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