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>> past seven years, this year, seven months, no accomplishment. how are you going to explain this to the voters next year if you don't do what you campaigned on. >> well, we have a new supreme court justice. we have 14 repeals of regulations. and we're only six months into it. last time i looked, congress goes on for two years. we'll be moving on to comprehensive tax reform and to infrastructure. there's much work left to be done for the american people and we're ready to tackle it. >> that was not the look of a senate majority leader who was pleased at how this whole process has gone, cert...

Accomplish. all you hear about is how trumpcare kills people and that sticks. >> isn't part of the problem, matt, on how republicans just down the street from the white house really feel. they're not fearful of the president. there doesn't seem to be this sort of respect. we know the fact that when senators lee and moran came out last night and said, this isn't happening, the president was sitting at a din we aner and republican senators and it just shows what our guys think of trump. can you imagine them doing this to another president. >> what's the line? it's better to be feared than respec...

Timi timing, it was me observing this out of washington in terms of what i expected. did people expect that tonight would be the night we would get a whole bunch more republican senators saying no? >> there wasn't the expectation that this is going to happen tonight. i think that there was an expectation that most of these republican senators who were on the fence were waiting on the cbo score and now that had been delayed we were expecting the announcements to happen once that came out. but there was also an expectation that folks, they didn't want to be the one senator one the one that doome...

For the cbo score. and now that had been delayed we were expecting the announcements to happen once that came out. but there was also an expectation that folks, they didn't want to be the one senator one the one that doomed the bill. so the idea that senators lee and moran came out together and did this together, it makes it a lot of sense. because it allows them to be able to do it together. now it's four, not three. neither one of them is the one senator that decided to be the nail in the coffin for this current version of the bill. but, you know, notably, you know, somebody like jerry moran...

Heller is the only republican up for reelection where hillary clinton won. this group whose add has not gone on the air yet is in place. there's tons of adds. there's pressure on this senator. i think the red line for this senator was the medicaid cuts. unfortunately this bill that has been put before the united states senate or most people just saw the bill it finances the billionaire tax cuts by curbing medicaid. >> matt the vice president is going to have dinner with four senators tomorrow night. senators lee, langford, sass and contin. dinner with the vp or intimidation adds in your state?