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Best vote counters in d.c., that's jeff denham from california. and being able to pull this together and get this done. i also in your earlier point, chris, people say -- people wanting to say the base disagrees with this. people want to use the phrase "the base" when they don't disagree with something. this is an issue that 75% of republicans say should be solved, and that is having a permanent solution to daca recipients. most people, whether you're republican or democrat, say you should secure the border. why it's taken this long to try to get to something, i don't know, but i think this in...

If you lose dick durbin, you lose one of your big salesmen taking this back to his democratic members. correct? >> well, there are two groups in the senate. one, is actually senate and house. the top vote counters, the whips, for republicans and democrats in the senate and the house. that group was just formed after that extraordinary meeting in the cabinet room on tuesday. they're nowhere. this other group, which is the one that met with the president, or at least members of it, lindsay graham and dick durbin, yesterday in the oval office, where these statements were made, they've been workin...

Like the obama debate, under this bill, if it became law, we would have it in 50 states for who knows how long. to the point about getting to 52, rand paul is a no. i sort of sense the same quick sand we've seen in past repeal efforts. the president tweeting this morning, rand paul is a friend of mine but he's such a negative force when it comes to fixing health care. graham/cassidy bill is great. ends o care but rand paul just last hour tweeting back, this new gang bill is another graham necessity, this time for obamacare. conservatives have seen this before. lindsey graham was part of compre...

>> rebecca, will there be a vote this week? >> there could be, wolf. it is not over yet. they don't have 21 people, 22 people against the bill among republicans. and these counts tend to be a very fluid situation. so you have the house whip team. these are the vote counters among republicans, going out and trying to convince people to either change their minds or come on board. we've seen accounts change. that still could happen and they could still cobble together a coalition but i agree with gloria, someone like fred upton, loyal party member, who tends to go along with leadership and suppor...

Increased most dramatically also happens to be in the part of the state where rand paul's vote is most intensely concentrated. there are districts, counties where rand paul got over 80% of the vote, where one-fifth of the people are covered now by the medicaid expansion. just the medicaid expansion. i think they are also at real risk of losing senator lee from utah and senator cruz from texas, for different reasons. we have talked a lot about repeal and replace. but there is emerging some -- the right place for republican senators to be in the camp of what i call, denounce and preserve. you at...