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Know? >> reporter: well, it will be interesting to see what comes out of this meeting. it's also worth noting, anderson, like you said, it's republican senators. earlier today we saw sara huckabee sanders go to the podium and say, hey, we're willing to move forward on this on a bipartisan basis. we want democrats to come to the table. the reality is the white house has not tried to engage democrats ton this. they still tried to move forward on a repeal plan, which is something they know democrats are not ever going to show up and work with them on. so, i think everyone is sort of wondering wha...

Thank you. senate republicans are on quite a losing streak with health care as an issue. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is on capitol hill tonight. but what happen this time? >> to senate republican pan's to scrap obamacare have failed in the past 24 hours. the latest one, boating on a repeal plan with two years to transition, which republicans passed in 2015. >> it's pretty clear that there are not 50 republicans at the moment to vote for a replacement for obamacare. >> democrats insisted repeal without replacement would be a disaster. >> it's like if our health care system wa...

And, you know, dean heller is looking at the state of nevada where millions of people are going to lose insurance under the repeal plan, under the repeal and replace plan, and the president is expecting him to vote for it. why would he vote for it if he's running for reelection and it's going to do all that damage to the state? that's the policy problem. but the president talks about it exclusively in terms of, are you with me or are you against me? >> and says, you know, i know the people of nevada. that's what he says to dean heller who has been in public service for two decades in nevada, i...

Delay give us an opportunity to build something better on a bipartisan basis. that's what i sense most of our members would like to vote on now, and we'll be doing that in the near future. >> nancy. >> you don't appear currently to have votes for that repeal plan. so if that vote fails, will you then begin working with democrats? >> well, i think we'll have to see what happens. we will have demonstrated that republicans, by themselves, are not prepared at this particular point to do a replacement. and that doesn't mean that problems all go away, and you'll have to look at our committee chairma...

And why aren't officials releasing any details about the incident? let's start with the failure of the latest version of the senate health care bill. senator lisa murkowski of alaska moments ago becoming the latest republican senator saying she is not there to proceed on any vote with major implications going forward. this isn't just a broken promise on obamacare. it impacts anywhere there's republican division. remember, too, that health care reform was supposed to pave the way for tax reform. president trump went on a mini twitter tear earlier today, four tweets all about health care, incl...