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A very high-strakes drama playing out over health care on capitol hill. the senate scheduled to vote soon on a procedural motion to open debate on a health care bill and the margins, we're told, are razor thin. senator rand paul of kentucky joins us now. he says he'll vote yes on this procedural motion. senator, why did you decide to go ahead and vote in favor of opening debate? >> you know, i've been advocating for months to have a clean repeal. meaning that we don't have an insurance bailout. just repeal the bad parts of obamacare and try to get back to where we have an insurance market that...

Aa super small step. >> they proved they can square dance a bit over on the house side together locked in arm, again, razor thin. francesca, i want to play senator john mccain. take a listen. >> we promised the american people and i promised the people of arizona we would repeal and replace obamacare. >> do you like the house bill? >> frankly i haven't paid that much attention. really, there's no reason for me to because we will take it up here. >> they want to repeal and replace obamacare, they have had umpteen votes over president obama's term and now with president trump in office. and yet ...

Really at both this morning but specifically to the attorney general saying that she believes this is a politically motivated attempt by the attorney general to side with donald trump. >> sunland, thank you. >> i want to go straight to jeffrey toobin, author of "too close to call" when people hear numbers like 500 votes cast in michigan and a 10,000 vote margin. that seems to people so close that it could go either way. >> and it --. you refer to razor thin. it is a razor thin margin from a political perspective. but from a recount perspective it is really not that close. >> you never recount ...

>> today marks the final day of early voting in the battleground state of georgia. >> over 1.9 million people have voted in the peach state and 53% are republicans and 42% of democrats. >> donald trump leading hillary clinton by a razor thin. >> chris jansing is joining me now from decatur. >> this is virtually deadlock there. i know you have been taking a look at the african-american votes because that could make all the difference. >> reporter: it absolutely could in places like this in dekalb county where the population is 57% african-americans and there is been a huge soul to the polls pus...

On and president obama has a lead in all of these states. now, they are single digit leads. razor thin. volatile going through the months ahead. but right now i think he's winning this race based on the electoral college. remember president obama does not -- he can lose florida and ohio and win virginia and still wins the presidency. >> dave, let me take this from the other side, not surprisingly. how is obama doing this well? you know typically we don't re-elect president when is we're above 8% unemployment and i'll throw some stats up on the screen. 8.2% unemployment. real unemployment is 14...