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Upon a slen jer majority. they didn't have the votes to do it on a party line basis. the question is are they willing to try to shore up the markets in obamacare which do have problems but would require them in all likelihood to abandon the quest to retrench medicaid. >> phil mattingly, for people who are just waking up, i want to visit that moment of john mccain walking up in that dramatic and poignant moment and giving the thumbs down. you could hear -- right there. if we have the audio, you can hear the democratic side of the chamber was about to erupt, even more so. but chuck schumer waved...

Assuran assurance, quote, did not ease his concern that this shell of a bill could be taken up and passed at any time. >> obviously a very dramatic night and morning. but the idea that the senate majority leader would put the bill on the floor and have it fail is big. the idea he would put the bill, the thing these republicans have campaigned on for more than seven years as the basis for why they have the majority in the senate, majority in the house and in part why they have the white house and have that fail, it is a dramatic, huge, huge deal. what happens going forward, it's an open questio...

Republicans shuffled back and forth to meetings on the senate floor, desperately trying to rangle votes for a skeletal bill to move it back to the house. the failure was seen early thursday evening as mccain joined colleagues castigating the bill and the . >> we've got to have republicans and democrats sit down together and come up with a bill that gets a majority in both houses. >> reporter: mccain's close friend, senator lindsey graham making clear the merits of the bill were lacking. >> the skinny bill as policy is a disaster. the skinny bill as a replacement for obamacare is a fraud. >> re...