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Higher. even the prospect are very much in doubt. there is a lot of uncertainty about whether they're even going to be able to get that this year. >> that would be a huge set back. tick to being goes the clock. molly ball? >> a bipartisan couple of senators, dick durbin and lindsey graham reintroduced the dream act this week. this is the proposed legislation that would grant a form of amnesty to young illegal immigrants that have been in the country for a long time and meet certain requirements and may seem like a strange time to be doing that. but this administration sent very conflicting sig...

Promising. >> scheduled next week. earlier in the day he promised that even though they're facing yet another set back, he is committed to finding a way forward on healthcare. take a listen. >> i believe we must continue to push forward now. i regret the effort to repeal an immediately replace the failures of obamacare will not be successful. that doesn't mean we should give up. we will try a different way to bring the american people relief from obamacare. i think we owe them at least that much. >> but the problem that he has now is that the votes just simply aren't there. there are at least ...

There is all of these major things he wants to accomplish. >> do you think he understands that? >> i think so, but there are others that he wants to address. even parts of health care reform that don't fit in, he wants to get them done, too. >> you do not support getting rid of the phfilibuster and goi down to legislation -- >> how big of a set back was it overnight when the two republican senators, mike lee and jerry miran, how big of a set back was it?

Another set back, sadly because of john mccain's situation. and at least a week, perhaps longer. what is the prospect they can peel off another vote, the opponents? >> it was going to be tough to do this, even if they were proceeding as they expected to do this week with debate and perhaps a vote on the republican alternative to the affordable care act. but i think that the fact that there is going to be a delay because of senator mccain's surgery makes it all that much harder, because there is a lot of opposition to this bill. and the longer that the opponents have to study the bill, to disse...

Every day is a set back, i'm glad that speaker ryan has said they will stay, i appreciate the president has used his bully pulpit to talk about this, i'm not the biggest fan of them getting involved, democrats own this bill, it's a bad bill, it's continued to get worse and worse. >> you're talking about this bill? this bill is put together by republicans. >> yes, i know that. but obama care is failing. for the republicans to take it over and over it from the democrats. they need to show the difference in republicans and democrats. they're missing the boat here, they're not talking about reform...