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Basically like deflation day for the biggest republican policy priority effort of them all. the effort to repeal obamacare appears to be in political freefall right now. it will face a vote in a house committee tomorrow. it might pass that committee. the fact that it might is remarkable given that it has eight more seats than democrats do and it still might not pass. if it does pass the republican-controlled house -- which itself is not sure -- even then what would happen next is it would head to the senate and republicans can only afford no votes on this bill from three republican senators vo...

Election result coming up tonight as well. i should tell you a lot of trump partisans in this country are very upset with geert wilders' loss in the netherlands tonight tonight is also starting to look basically like deflation day for the biggest republican policy priority effort of them all. the effort to repeal obamacare appears to be in political freefall right now. it will face a vote in a house committee tomorrow. it might pass that committee. the fact that it might is remarkable given that it has eight more seats than democrats do and it still might not pass. if it does pass the republic...

And that's where we start this morning. joining me now to make sense of all that, former chairman of the rnc and now an msnbc analyst, michael steele, and liz plank, senior correspondent for vox.com. thank you both for being here. >> thank you. >> good morning. >> let me start with you, michael. the white house correspondents dinner, big event, people that fight and attack and take shots at each other all year kind of sit there -- >> yeah. >> -- and break bread together. the president is able to, whoever the sitting president is, to give his jokes off on the media. this is unprecedented for a ...

Express yourself here and then vote one way or the other. >> senator orrin hatch called democrats idiots for boycotting committee votes on some of president trump's nominees. democrats sat out votes for treasury secretary, health and human services and epa administrator, but republicans simply changed the rules and voted them through anyway. joining me now, liz plank, senior correspondent for vox.com, and jamal simmons, democratic strategist. let me go to you first, liz. the street heat is there. we had a civil rights march. we had the women's march. we had the immigration marches. street heat...

President bush 43's tenure. there's personal a new standard now, which is to not confirm a supreme court nominee at all. i think that's something the american people will simply not tolerate and we'll be looking forward to receiving a supreme court nomination and moving forward on it. >> reporter: the insurance question -- >> reporter: senator, on cabinet nominations, do you intend to meet -- >> mitch mcconnell taking questions from reporters after mike pence, you can see over his shoulder, came out of his lunch with republican senators and made some comments. gern again, saying his first orde...