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Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. If there were any lingering doubts today, the Republican Party officially became the party of roy moore. Party elites rallied around the antigay birther after he handily beat their preferred candidate in alabamas gop primary this week. Today from the podium the White House Press secretary declined to condemn some of moores inflammatory views. Judge moore says homosexuality should be illegal, he said sandy hook was some sort of divine retribution, he said Keith Ellison should not be permitted to serve in congress because hes a muslim. So without askin...

It destroyed their educational system. this story is going to get out. so if they don't do this super quick, they're going to have a similar problem they had with the affordable care act. >> the problem, maddie, do you think that the republicans are in a situation similar to the aca? it struck me in the aca, republicans were trying to sell repeal and replace sort of on rib lals' terms, right? so they were saying, lower premium, more coverage. even though the bill wasn't going to do that. here you have republicans saying, as opposed to making a supply side argument about why you have to cut tax...

Back and check his quotes that he's had over those years. >> here's my other question, maddie. i get the sense, all the republicans i've talked to, it's like this is it at the end of the rainbow. they want tax -- this tax bill so badly. i've been hearing about it since the president was elected. the president went into a restaurant the night after he was elected and said, i'm going to cut your taxes, at an expensive new york restaurant. how badly do republicans want this? >> if you've only been hearing this since january you haven't been listening to me for years, which is tax reform is the bi...

Make america great. so i'm not making this up. maybe you think they're not being truthful. and i guess the question for you, sam, is, are they basically faking it? >> it doesn't matter. >> right. >> look, this is the same story with donald trump too. we saw the -- >> exact same story. >> the establishment had big problems with donald trump until they thought, this is going to be our way to appeal the affordable care act, this is going to be our way to get a conservative supreme court, this is going to be our way to finally get some type of tax reform overhaul that's going to last more than ten...

Ability to repeal obamacare. >> yeah, and we've told them from the beginning that that won't be the case, that you are not going to essentially put a gun to the heads of our constituents and congress and force us to act. and i hope that better angels are going to prevail. we are very close to a deal in the senate to try to keep the parts of the affordable care act that are working and stabilize the parts that aren't. and my hope is some of these actions by the trump administration push republicans in the senate to work with democrats to stabilize these markets. >> all right, senator chris murp...