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To do today with senators murkowski and collins voting no is to get 50 votes on the motion 0 to proceed. they're dancing on the head of a needle here and get vice president pence to break the tie. >> shepard: in the next couple weeks, debates will be offered. amendments can be offered by anyone and the republicans have to keep the 50 votes and the one from the vice president to be able to not repeal obamacare because this would be a defunding of obamacare. nevertheless, the structure would remain there. obamacare as a law would in essence be dead. but to keep shelly moore capito on board, it's...

Then, thus, leaves the massive question over, well, then, what happens. they may be -- they may have been no's turned yes's for the procedural vote but who knows how this thing could go down the road. phil, thank you so much. we'll come back to you. talking to different correspondents on capitol hill, watching this vote very closely. we have the two no votes so far, senators murkowski and collins. they cannot afford another one. the vice president is there. he could provide the tie-breaking vote if need be on this procedural vote to open the debate on repeal and replace. let's go over to the w...

The record and voted on the motion to proceed. this would be the new healthcare bill. trumpcare, if you will. there's two no votes. senator murkowski and senator susan collins of maine. those are the two republican votes in the negative. there are two more republicans yet to vote. senator ron johnson, the senior setter from wisconsin and senator mccain from arizona. john mccain is expected to be a yes vote. senator ron johnson we're not sure. i've been told by our capitol hill producer, chad pergram, who is on the floor now, that senator johnson has been on the sidelines with senator mcconnell...

>> joining us on set the president of planned parenthood, cecile richards. is he veal, mike pence we played a sound bite from him last week they still have planned parenthood definitely going to try to take it away, the funding. >> right. >> tell us what your biggest concerns are moving forward, especially now the bill is on hold or a failure for now? >> it was great to see senators murkowski and collins they were clear ending access to planned parenthood is sort of a deal breaker and it's important to understand as senator murkowski says we're not in the federal budget. that's a misnomer. the...

>> well, willie, from mark's previous analysis yes in theory you could do the tradeoffs to try and kind of very carefully balance the see-saw you outlined. they wrote the bill with the deep medicaid cuts to cut a deal and the problem is that fundamental math turns out is completely unpattatable to the republican senate. they want to lean more heavily towards ted cruz and mike lee because they know eventually the bill will have to pass the house and if they pass something in the senate that's overwhelmingly tilted towards collins and murkowski and the other moderates, then the path is tough onc...