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It's a very real possibility this has an impact on the entire debate. certainly the vote tomorrow and then if they get the votes tomorrow, what happens moving forward. this will have an impact. there's no question about it. doesn't guarantee a vote, but it will have an impact, no question about it, anderson. >> phil mattingly, i appreciate you on the phone. thanks very much, phil. if you're a republican and have been campaigning on this, why not vote to at least move forward, to at least keep it alive and continue the discussion? >> because then you might have to vote on it and they don't want...

A vote. goat the ball ro to get the ball rolling, he thinks if he puts the money on the line, they may be afraid to cast a vote. i still think it probably isn't going to make it. i think he thinks if he can get them to a point where they have to cast a vote, they're going to have to own their positions in a way -- >> last week they didn't have 50 votes but let's see what happens tomorrow. but it just still sounds -- >> it's basically gone from absolutely no chance, because you look at the math before we got this news about mccain, you have ronald paul -- excuse me, susan collins, murkowski, ma...

To get together? where's that? where are those stories? that has a bigger impact on them and their families, they want more coverage of that. >> dana loesch. thanks so much, dana. back with the panel. mike, you made this point last week. we thought it was important. >> thanks. i mean, you know, to talk about polling, and i'll tweet this out, poll from the winston group, dave winston, i've seen this on multiple polls, the list of issues. terrorism, health care, the economy, jobs, education, on down the line. russia investigation is almost last on the list and so in terms of how much -- that's h...

>> you keep coming up with cbo numbers that are saying people are going to be left off and certain groups will not have this, certain groups will not have that. the constituents are having problem. when it hits home, it hits home and you just gave a talking point talking about, you know, obama did this in august. it's not about the timeline, once again, it's about the issue, what's at stake. it's about those with pre-exi pre-existing conditions versus those who don't have pre-existing conditions. it's interesting that even what was up for discussion, the ownersh opioid substance issue in the r...

Communications setup at the russian embassy that would evade u.s. detection. and as a journalist, i think that's really important to know. i want to know if white house officials, why are white house officials talking to russian government representatives about that? why was -- >> the objective was, by the way, the objective wasn't to evade u.s., it was the kislyak said is there a secure line here from trump tower, kushner and flynn said, no, there's not a secure line and raised the idea of using something in the russian embassy -- >> keep in mind, jared was a transition official and is a whit...