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Learned today is that mitch mcconnell in fact wanted to proceed. it is a little bit complicated with senate rules here. but essentially if they want to vote on health care this week, they would have had to do it this morning. that was mitch mcconnell's original plan until we heard him go to the floor late yesterday and say, look, i talked to the president, i talked to the vice president, and so we're going to do this vote early next week. and then here you have, you see it there, the members of the u.s. senate heading down to the white house to talk to the president. so it seems like, i have t...

Could come as soon as tomorrow. and it will likely fail. tonight, senate republicans have essentially run out of options. >> i regret that the effort to repeal and immediately replace the failures of obamacare will not be successful. that doesn't mean we should give up. >> reporter: soon after senate majority leader mitch mcconnell made his pitch to repeal obamacare without a replacement, three senators, susan collins of maine, shelley moore capital of west virginia, and lisa murkowski of alaska said they would not support a vote to bring the new version of the bill to the floor essentially ...

Nowhere near president truman nor fdr. he signed 76 bills into law in his first 100 days. roosevelt signed major legislation in the midst of the grips of a great depression. what kind of bills has president trump signed since taking office? there have been some significant measures no question, accountability and overhaul at the veterans affairs, boosting border security and military spending but almost half are ceremonial and the majority nearly reverse obama regulations using obscure legislative tool called the congressional review act. gives lawmaker s 60 days to overturn any regulation. sa...

Plan. >> that's right. part of that was just about punting a little bit, right? this a week that congress is in recess, and so lawmakers are at home, and some of them have cancelled town halls and are not doing town halls at all because they know they are facing intense backlash, so what part of president trump is doing is giving them a talk point of well, we will wait and see what the president does in a couple weeks and go from there, and it's just a dodge. republicans have had seven years where they are promising to repeal obamacare and replace it, and it's clear on capitol hill that they a...

>> an american icon takes a stand against trump. >> when you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, off moral obligation to do something. >> tonight, the shock waves from john lewis and why democrats are fuming after another classified briefing with fbi director comey. plus, new questions about team trump's explanation for their phone calls to russia. >> the only conversation that general flynn had was one to wish him a merry christmas. why republicans are targeting the ethics office that will oversee trump. the house takes another step to dismantle obamacare without a repl...