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Obamacare appeal and opposing the law extremely effective for republicans when the law was passed and now it's swung in the other direction. why senator mcconnell wants to move quickly and get this done. one reason you get to the fourth of july recess and beyond, a lot of activism against it. a big part of the reason and republicans want to move on to other things such as tax reform. you have to get this off the plate before you do things like that. a huge fight probably the biggest week and probably the biggest roll call vote of mitch mcconnell's ten-year career at republican leader. squeezed...

Medicare for those states that need greater flexibility, while ensuring those who rely on the program do not have the rug pulled out from underneath them. this is certain to get to a lot of reaction, not just from nancy pelosi, but from the democrats and republicans alike on the house side, but before that happens, mitch mcconnell's going to be out on the floor of the senate, is going to happen about 4 minutes from now, so we will get his first reaction to what he has been talking about with his republican colleagues and also what sort of interface there has been at the white house. >> shannon...

Areas obama created remain in the law, including pregnancy. certain states can ask for opt-outs. but there are a lot of lawmakers, all the states in america before obamacare have all sorts of regulations and mandates, most of which stay in the law under the acha. julie: but the option is there for them to opt out. the likelihood of that happening may not be high. but the fact they have the option scares some. >> to your point about the number of women and i would say minorities as well. men aren't bad guys. but before -- prostate cancer was funded 8 times more than ovarian cancer. that's becau...

Pencil >> this gets you through september. they can fight the fights. i'm sure paul ryan is acutely aware. >> i'm happy it's longer than a week. that was the first prediction. >> part of the win here today, so that takes us to what happens this week. they say they're going to get a health care vote. i have two different answers on that. jim jordan was like yeah i think we'll you get a vote and meehan say if we have the votes we'll have a vote. we think we're getting there, but not 100%. what tunindo you think? >> this is like lucy with the football. they're right on the tipping point in the ho...

The bill as what is. that border wall critically no changes to planned parenthood, no changes for funding for sanctuary cities. major defense spending increase but a little bit less than maybe what some republicans had wanted. there's $15 billion in new spending on defense in this bill. and overall increase of $25 billion on the last fiscal year. it does look like this is going to sail through congress this week at this point which, of course, averts that crisis they didn't want to deal with, republicans, democrats, house senate not wanting to deal with a shutdown. >> they didn't wipe out epa ...