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Simultaneous replacement plan. five republicans joining together, republican charlie baker of massachusetts and larry hogan of maryland. joe manchin of west virginia said he's arranged a bipartisan meeting of those in the senate. there are nine in all, three on republican side and six in the democratic caucus. mike brown said he would be attending the ming last night. another former governor lamar alexander of tennessee announce that's he will convene hearings of the senate house committee, all in search of ways to stabilize the insurance market, a sign that the process is moving to regular or...

Overnight. >> so the president and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell acknowledging defeat and they are now pushing if a straightforward repeal without a replacement plan. how did all of this fall apart? we have it all covered for you. let's begin with suzanne malveaux live on capitol hill. give us the latest. >> reporter: good morning. as president trump approaches his six month mark in his presidency with record low approval ratings, this definites have stating blow now to his number one legislative priority and also the promise that republicans made to both repeal and replace obamacare....

Moran have come out and openly said this needs to be an open process, so for some of these senators who said essentially we need hearings, we need to have committees look into this, we need regular order. >> we want some democrats on the books. >> potentially and julie was talking about how unstable things are already. republicans know this. they are not unaware there's a lot of trouble with obama cair, certain things that need immediate attention and republicans are now openly saying this is something we need to work on potentially with democrats. >> it's interesting, julie, this is obviously...

Live picture from capitol hill as we have more on today's breaking political news. the collapse of the senate republican obamacare replacement plan. at that podium republican senators meeting for lunch come out to explain to us how they plan to move forward on health care. a much bigger question for the republican party, too. six months after taking control of the white house and both chambers of congress, can the gop rise to the challenge of governing? >> -- we have the president, so we can do things -- >> you can do things lickety-split? >> been a long time since that happen happened. >>ed p...

The majority leader, mitch mcconnell today? >> majority leader mcconnell seems determined to have a vote on a partial repeal without a replacement plan even though he doesn't have the votes. he expressed frustration a short time ago. >> this has been a challenging experience for all of us. pretty obvious that we don't have 50 members who can agree on a replacement. a lot of people have been involved in the discussion, it's been a very passionate discussion. but than has gefb it their best shot. >> four moderate republicans came out against the idea even though it was a bill they voted on in 20...