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Procedural vote today, underscoring the difficulty they face going forward. >> it's an open amendment process. this is just the beginning. we're not out here to spike the football. this is a long way. but we'll finish at the end of the week, hopefully. so we're pleased to have been able to take the step in the direction today. >> reporter: one of those amendments that was offered to those wary senators to get them on board, something that would add $100 billion for the medicaid expansion state senators, that will be on the senate noor f-- floor for a vot. that will fail. you're seeing votes --...

Tape leaked over the weekend, wolf. >> and manu, the statement put out by a paul ryan's spokeswoman, strong, read it to our viewers, the speaker is going to spend the next month focused entirely on protecting our congressional majorities. the working assumption is that paul ryan is now assuming that hillary clinton is going to be the next president of the united states, and he doesn't want her to have a republican majority in the house and a republican majority in the senate. is that what he's assuming? >> reporter: that's what a lot of members who got off the call, several of whom i spoke wit...