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Ohio. welcome back to the 11th hour. rob portman speaking on capitol hill as his party pushed ahead with its effort to repeal obamacare, a version of a repeal only bill from 2015 failed today on a vote 45-55, seven of the no votes came from republicans. including senator mccain. just as he had promised yesterday. six of those republicans actually flipped their votes to no from 2015. senator collins of maine has remained such a consistent no voice on repeal and not replace. with us tonight to talk about all of this, from milwaukee, our friend long-time radio talk show host and author charlie sy...

And from washington, kimberly atkins, "boston herald," chief washington reporter and a recovering lawyer. welcome to you both. charlie, let's talk about your party. formerly the party of bob michael and mack mathias. i'm hearing serious people talk about health care kind of continuing on until next year. does this end with a whimper and who is going to tell the customers and their level of anxiety? >> well, those are great questions. you know, i heard one senator saying that maybe they'll vote on this by friday and put it behind them. they're not putting it behind them because this is a quagmi...

obama on extending the tax cuts for the very wealthy. >> richton, new jersey, walter, an independent. good morning. >> caller: good morning, senator specter. how you doing? >> good. >> caller: i want to ask you, what do you think can be done to make local people like yourself and colin powell and republicans that hold a more moderate view? >> the answer to have an aroused, informed electorate. let me tell you some of the details as to what happened to senator lisa murkowski in alaska. she was challenged by the tea party, and they beat her in a primary. and she decided to run as a wri...

ranking republican, and i had some questions for eric holder about some of the things he had done when he was deputy attorney general and he came in to see me. and we had a long talk, and i ultimately supported him. i got an agreement from eric holder that he would take a fresh review of the ted stevens case. i couldn't get the republican attorney general to do that, but eric holder to review it and look at what has happened. they have found that there was terrible concealing of evidence that would have exculpated, would have exonerated, would have let stevens go. they hid the eviden...

larry summers did a heck of a job trying to figure out how to -- >> you don't want to use that phrase, dude. >> pun intended. >> all right. >> pun intended. good morning everyone. top of the hour, 6:00 on the east coast on thursday, october 28th. and here with us now we have -- >> heck of a job? jon stewart. that was interesting, him going on stewart. it was interesting. >> it was interesting. i talked to one of the major figures in the democratic party over the past 20 years, and whose response was yesterday afternoon, huh, he's not going to campaign on the campaign stuff like in th...