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That's the family taking care of business. awesome notebook! check. but who takes care of them? office depot / office max. this week, these composition books are just 25 cents each. ♪ taking care of business coming out of washington. health care. voters are responding to these three republican senators who went against leadership last ditch effort yesterday to repeal parts of obamacare. maine senator susan collins voted against the skinny repeal yesterday. it appears maine voters are sticking by her over the president. nbc morgan is in doveer fox

Senate. i'm joined by senator tim kaine and a member of the senate health committee. it's great to have you. thanks so much for taking the time this morning. >> you bet. glad to talk. democrats have been saying look, as long as repeal is off the table, we're happy to work with you to try to find a fix for obamacare. they are saying, the ball is in your court. what's the plan? >> well, it's not only we've been saying that, we've been introducing bills. we have been waiting for the opportunity to present them. we have one using reinsurance that's a backstop against high cost claims. that would s...

We're very proud she has stood her ground, not for anybody but the people of maine. >> reporter: that second woman you heard speak, she runs that hospital. she tells us that they already had to let go of their only pediatrician and also having to let go of their own psychiatric in the fall. maine has been ravaged by the opioid epidemic so mental health services are particularly important for this community. if obamacare were to have been repealed, 95,000 people across maine would have lost health insurance. you just heard from the type of people responding to susan collins saying they were tha...

On. they want to move soon. mark ammaday from nevada has been entrenched as a no and he's been in that meeting with vice president pence. >> they want to get this done before this two-week vacation they have coming up, right? they don't want to leave it hanging. >> it's a one-week vacation. if they're not quite there, they won't do it. kevin mccarthy indicated that we'll know tonight whether they will vote tomorrow. >> you said they won't do it if the votes weren't there. phil graham and the others i talked to say sometimes it's a good idea to force a vote, expose everybody. have you heard any...

Issues that -- >> and you can impact. >> whether truch releases his taxes or not. that's not going to impact your life. >> and it's not going to be because somebody protested. >> affordable care act approval ratings have sky rocketed. they're in the 50s now. >> this is your moment. get it right. >> urban areas where you have big pockets, do you know what the number one issue is? violence in communities across this country. and democrats are not -- have not develop aid winning message or even ideas of how to address this in a comprehensive and systematic way. we've got a ways to go in addition ...