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24 hours same, they were neck and a vote on the motion to proceed. this is a very routine vote on any bill should be automatic if you're the majority to pass it they did now i debate appeared amended, they want to keep talking about it. before i got to that step. bottom line, the hand was forced. so senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell announced they would do it after the july 4th recess. they are going to talk to the white house and president trump first. >> shepard: the last few days, we've been talking about mitch mcconnell and what a genius he is about wrangling votes. there is no one o...

It. move it a little bit over here, a very narrow pass. honestly, nobody can be totally happy. forget about those. this has to do with making the plan that everybody is going to like. i'd like to say love, but light. we have a very good plan. we have a few people that are i think you could save modest. they are standing on the rooftops and screening. pete: a republican senator soon enough to have your back? >> i think so. i have great relationships with most of the people in the senate and in the house. i worked very hard and have a lot of great friendships with people in the house. same thing...

Vulnerable republican senator in 2018 and his concerns with the biller with medicaid. this concerned the cut rack in the rollback of the expansion in 2021 will have harmful effects. it turned getting more spending to help the medicaid expansion and go back to a really tall order that the medicaid funding is an issue that the pullback a lot in this bill. dean heller will want more money and more federal funding to help the people in nevada. >> rand paul has been outspoken about health care from the beginning. >> rand paul is the most frustrated. he considers that obamacare light. he doesn't lik...

Is in it. tax credits based on age and income, prohibiting insurers from increasing premiums on preexisting conditions my phases out medicaid expansion, 2020-2024, deep cuts to medicaid, mitch mcconnell has a problem. four gop senators are not anbar, rand paul, ted cruz, mike lee and ron johnson. paul says it sounds like obamacare to him. >> when i look at this i keep reading it, this sounds like obamacare, doesn't even sound like obamacare light, it is obamacare plus on the subsidy side. we can't call that a repeal bill. >> reporter: in an exclusive interview with ainsley are hard later this ...

>> i do see this bill as obamacare light essentially. one of the things we know about this bill is it's rolling back a lot of plans from obamacare, not entirely, but making them less generous. we're expecting less individual tax credits who buy in the individual market, medicaid expansion being phased out in 2021. we'll see if this bill can thread the need to a peas people like mike lee from utah, ted cruz from texas and more moderate senators, people like lisa murkowski from alaska, susan collins from may. they're trying to hold together this big coalition. >> doesn't sound like it's going to...