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Essentially they would be putting it up to fail. there are a couple reasons according to senate aides. they want to get all their members on the record. they have a lot of members that made it clear even if this isn't going to pass, they want to vote on something. this is as i noted something that they have campaigned on repeatedly. but the question becomes if they fail in this vote as it looks like they are going to, what are the next steps? is this officially done? clearly they don't have the votes to replace. clearly if the repeal only vote fails, they don't have the votes for repeal. so th...

Was a harried 15 to 20 hours as the initial draft plan collapsed. and then senator mcconnell announced that he would move to another plan, a repeal only plan. one problem, senators had already discarded that plan in january. bringing it up also caused problems. three republican senators coming out opposed to the new plan seemingly scuttling that as well. and something that mitch mcconnell made clear that the local process has just been a very difficult one for republicans. take a listen. >> a lot of people have been involved in a discussion, very passionate discussions, but everybody is giving...

Again, that is something that would be celebrated here and would be seen as a victory for president putin and those types of victories are typically promoted in the russian state media. >> ivan watson for us in moscow. thank you. all right. turning now to health care, mitch mcconnell refusing to concede defeat on the effort to get rid of obama care owicare d that the repeal and replace eventually also failed. he announced that they will hold a procedural vote early next week, a move that will force gop lawmakers to go on the record, to walk the plank really, go on the record ahead of the 201...

Right now. a second meeting between president trump and vladimir putin just revealed. so why didn't the white house disclose it initially? plus -- >> we'll just let obamacare fail. we're not going to own it. i'm not going to own it. i can tell you the republicans are not going to own it. >> with another plan to repeal obamacare nixed by his own party, president trump says he's ready to let the law fall apart despite long orddds of pass repeal, a vote for begin debate will row. welcome to "early start." >> it's wednesday, july 19, 5:00 a.m. in the east. and this morning the white house pushin...

>> let obamacare fail. it will be a lot easier. and i think we're probably in that position where we'll just let obamacare fail. we're not going to own it. i can tell you the republicans are not going to own it. we'll let obamacare fail and then the democrats will come to us and say how do we fix it, or how do we come up with a new plan. >> the president also says his party's advantage in congress isn't strong enough and voters need to elect more republicans in 2018, but given the sharp divisions reveal by the failure of obamacare repeal, even that might not solve the party 00 problems. more o...