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Address any of those concerns this morning. when he spoke after the bill's narrow passage of 51 votes to 49. instead he had other words to offer democrats. take a listen. >> this is done through the regular order. the democrats had plenty of notice. chairman hatch can attest to all the multiple hearings, markups, open amendment process. everybody had plenty of opportunity to see the measure. you complain about process, when you are losing. >> let's bring in chris caffeina and noel mcpour republican strategist. noel, clearly different views on what happened before the vote. there was no necessa...

Farmers, on and on down the line. that's malpractice, and after you vote for it, to say, well, i think we better read it and understand what's in it, that's just, it's unconscionable that's what's happening. now in the process of trying to sort this out in a conference committee, they could hold hearings and hopefully they will, although there's no indication that that will happen. >> congressman, i want you to take a quick listen to this sound from senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and i want to get your reaction. >> this has gone through the regular order, the democrats had plenty of no...

Committee and ruling committee, et cetera. these amendments are only as good as the gop majority wants them to be. isn't that the truth? >> john mccain, interesting you bring his name up. remember that after the most recent delay, before this vote yesterday, john mccain came out very quickly and said we need to go back to basics, we need to start over. we need to have a full committee process, an open amendment process. he voted yesterday to move forward on a process that is not, in fact, that. you're going to have a couple days of debate and amendments and then you're going to see whether rep...

Frustrations. in a matter of hours we exp et the senators to go to the senate floor and take that vote that has felt so elusive. it is tuesday, so that policy lunch is going to happen. this lunch of course is so important today because it is an opportunity for senate majority leader mitch mcconnell to make that final push to get more of his members to get yes on this vote. after lunch is when we expect the vote to happen. to be clear did this vote is a procedural vote. technically voting to bring up the house bill, the house bill that passed earlier this year to repeal obamacare. if that is su...

Agreeing to move forward despite deep divisions and uncertainty ahead. let's bring in our congressional correspondent phil mattingly. phil, gop leaders squeaked this one through. >> reporter: no room to spare, no votes to spare. something, wolf, that really underscores that even though this was a big win today, they still have a very unclear process, no shortage of hurdles ahead. but make no mistake about it, for a plan that just days ago was left for dead, the obamacare repeal effort is now very much alive. >> mr. cruz? >> aye. >> reporter: tonight the gop effort to repeal and replace obamaca...