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Bill most leave mirrors what you see in the house version. there are key changes. more in a moment. our coverage first gifts with cnn's ryan nobles. >> reporter: good morning from capitol hill where senators haven't really had all that much time to digest this 142-page bill. if the early reviews are any indication, this is going to have a difficult time being passed and being passed quickly. mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader, could have a problem on both sides of the political spectrum. there's a group of moderate senators voicing concerns about the bill. this group already a littl...

Votes he needs that would allow vice president mike pence to make the tie bre-breaking vote the senate. it may take time. the reason i tend to think they'll ultimately get there is because there is a lot of pressure on republicans back home. every state is a little bit different. from the conservative grassroots, there's a sense that obamacare should have been repealed months ago. i don't necessarily think that's realistic. i think they've been on a rather fast timeline. a lot of republican voters figure they've had seven years to figure this out, they've got a republican house, a republican s...

Happy with it and that democrats would be rewarded by being re-elected and winning more seats than they had to begin with. it didn't pan out that way. republicans are acutely aware of that, which is why this has been at times a difficult process for them because they don't have -- they're not under any illusin that the voters are going to rush out and embrace them for this, especially if heading into the 2018 midterm elections, their primary, immediate concern, the health care system which does need to be fixed isn't doing better than before they passed about the bill. >> it's interesting that...

Border wall funding might be unwinnable if democrats will stand up against it. what kind of a position does this put the republicans in up there? >> well it gives remarkably little leverage especially the house leadership, little leverage in a congress when they control both houses. president trump picked the fights that are always on a fast timetable and because of the fast timetable give a lot of leverage to democrats, particularly in this area they were talking about fighting, trying to trade off a border wall which is not that popular and if they don't get it they'll kill off obamacare sub...

Away. speak to the issue is you don't necessary take it away, they are not dismantling medicaid and medicare. >> andrew: that's where the republicans need to speak with one mind or they may have difficulty changing this thing. because some will say, we have to keep finding these 30 million, others will say it is not in the constitution. it is not a job for the federal government. some will say, what we make the whole thing free market, the cost of insurance will go down. >> harris: what about senator rand paul? he likes those things that you mention to stay in place, we know that he has at lea...