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Democrats have their hearing and we're not going to do a thing to defend donald trump on that tweet, we're not going to step into that at all. we are not ready to come out here and attack donald trump. i mean, maybe if they get a few more of these polls showing his disapproval rates in their own districts, they might be able to do that, but they basically let this hearing go on. they had their separate hearing where they could make noises that sounded like outrage and objection and john heilmann, like they're objecting to something but they weren't objecting to anything that the democrats were...

To reduce the benefits and that's going to destroy the medicaid system as we know it. >> john heilemann, the thing that jumps out here, we have a deal in this new bill for exactly one state. they've written a deal that applies only to new york state in order to get upstate new york republican members of congress to vote for this thing. that goes back to the deal harry reid tried to make on the medicaid expansion. uniquely, uniquely with louisiana. everybody said that was terrible and scandalous and before you knew it, he had to make that deal with all 50 states. >> right. >> and so these kinds...

Uh, excuse me, waiter. i ordered the soup... of course, ma'am. my apologies. c'mon, caesar. let's go. caesar on a caesar salad? surprising. excuse me, pardon me. what's not surprising? how much money matt saved by switching to geico. could i get my parking validated? fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. in fact, two counter my speech two weeks ago in congress, i don't know, did anybody see that speech? they used the former governor of kentucky and the plan doesn't work in kentucky. >> joining us now, that former governor of kentucky, steve beshear, also back with us, john ...

Here and attack donald trump. i mean, maybe if they get a few more of these polls showing his disapproval rates in their own districts, they might be able to do that, but they basically let this hearing go on. they had their separate hearing where they could make noises that sounded like outrage and objection and john heilmann, like they're objecting to something but they weren't objecting to anything that the democrats were actually saying. >> right. just remember, lawrence, i think it's as important in this context we've just been discussing that it was as much of a shock to the republicans ...

Cancel that vote and push it off for another week. right now i think they're headed toward a vote. i think speaker ryan reconciled to the notion he's going to go to the floor something like six or eight votes short and just have to roll the dice and put pressure on mostly conservative members and say, look, if you don't vote yes for this, this is going to go down and maybe take the trump presidency in terms of its legislative agenda with it. and he's going to hope that he can pull that off. i don't know that it will work. >> live coverage of the house floor right here on "the last word" thursd...