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Where republicans were saying democrats will lose your house seats if you pass this bill and of course the democrats were devastated in the 2010 mid-term elections. but, look, the scoring of this is going to come. there will be a score before the final vote. this has to go through the house, then senate and another vote in the house and senate to pass the final bill. but i think, i want to make one point that hasn't been made which is really what's at stake is complete conflict divisions between the two parties in the united states. the democrats, and i've been on this show many times debating...

Political commentator david axelrod. david, your reaction to the house of representatives passing a bill that to a degree begins the process of repealing and replacing obamacare. >> you know normally jake when you cast a vote like this you want to feel like the vote wasn't in vain and the law will go on to the senate and be signed by the president. in this case if i cast a vote for this i might be hoping that the senate changes it dramatically or it never comes back to the house and it doesn't become law because despite what leader mccarthy just said the cbo says 24 million less people will ha...

Need. 217 right now to 213. >> the ayes or 217, the nays are 213. the unfinished business is a vote on the motion from the gentleman from california mr. rice to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 1644 as amended on which the ayes and nays ordered. >> h.r. 1644 with respect to transactions related to north korea. >> threw have it. going to other business on the floor of the house. members will be going into recess fairly soon. dana bash you're up on the hill. getting immediate reaction. they expected it would be close. it was very close. republicans had enough to get this legislation passed in the...

Right now the pressure on those nine republicans is immense. i suspect that all the nine are from the 22 or 23 seats that republicans have, the congressional seat, hillary clinton won the presidential race. oh, my god one vote away. the pressure on those five republicans one of them has to walk the plank. let's listen in. >> 216. 216 votes. >> they can still change their minds. right now 216 number has been achieved. the republicans will declare victory at this stage. the president just tweeted by the way, if victorious, republicans will have a big press conference at the beautiful rose garden...

On it and they said no they wanted to get rid of it. one last thing, jake it's so interesting that the title of this law is the affordable care act and that's where it has broken down where i live in virginia. we are losing our insurance companies, our costs are going through the roof and that's something that's been left out of the discussion is people are going to lose their insurance and drop their insurance if their insurance costs keep going up by thousands of dollars a year. >> gentlemen thank you so much. appreciate it. >> the main vote is now under way. you can see it up on your screen...