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>> the senate vote is scheduled for tuesday. not to say that it's been without a lot of controversy. the new york senate delegation, gillibrand and shouter have objected to a couple of amendments offered by the most fiscal conservative members. we're talking about rand paul of kentucky and mike lee of utah. both are offering amendments to the fund. senator's lee amendment would require a reauthorization of the fund every few years to keep it honest. he wrote and i quote, since 2011, the 9-11 victims fund has always has finite authorizations. it has an excellent record of regarding waste and ab...

Democratic congresswoman barbara lee of california was the only member of congress to vote against the u.s. taking military action. for more than a decade, congresswoman lee has continued pushing her colleagues to repeal that 2001 war authorization. this past june she finally had a breakthrough when the republican-led house appropriations committee approved her amendment, requiring congress to debate and approve military action in the middle east. >> the question is on the lee amendment. all those in favor say aye? >> aye. >> all those in favor say nay. >> nay. >> an opinion, but the ayes have...

They want to move forward if the motion to proceed vote is successful. they will bring forward the 2014 repeal bill. this is not likely to be successful. republican senators are not happy about doing a repeal without a replacement. this is the repeal and replace plan but a third version of it that includes funding for medicaid and the cruz/lee amendment that conservatives wanted. this is a sign leadership wants to offer members a chance to offer what they want to offer in this health care bill. finally, what leadership wants to get to is a skinny repeal bill. a smaller version of the 2015 repe...

And he's already done that. they didn't like the medicaid cuts. the new version has a cruz/lee amendment in it. and he is just betting, i can roll you because you're basically a coward and don't believe you believe what you say you believe. >> that's where the pressure from these governors coming from are so important. >> still ahead, keeping track of the constantly shifting explanations for the failure to disclose the meeting. jared kushner's lawyers give least believable excuse yet and a record thing one, thing two starts after this. he patrice bernier scott

Side, it does seem there's a narrow pattern. >> yes. i would put it differently. what he is telling them, hey, folks, i really, really need out this procedural vote. on the motion to proceed to the book. stick with me there. give me your vote. we'll try mollify your concerns throughout the amendment process. if they believe that, they should get a new line of work because they've just been conned bigly. what mcconnell will do at the end, we've talked about it before. after all the amendment process is over with, and after all the dozens of amendments have been dealt with, he will swoop in and ...