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Tonight the senate health care bill appears to be hanging by a thread. if one more senator says no to it, it wouldn't even get a chance to get a vote on the senate floor. president trump on his way back from paris made calls to wavering senators, but also he is ratcheting up the pressure on his own party, issuing a series of statements this morning on twitter, including this one. after all of these years suffering through obamacare, republican senators must come through as promised. trump making clear even before he went overseas, that in his view it's all on senate majority leader mitch mcco...

During the legislative process. even though it was never popular and they never liked it, when democrats were wavering, they could count on president obama to use his leverage with the liberal base to keep them going, whether he gave speeches, whether he traveled the country. this is not something we have seen from the president. i think it's why some republicans, though not all, have felt like he is not immersed in the details. he doesn't talk about why he wants to repeal and replace the affordable care act in a public sense beyond twitter. beyond that, in states like arizona and nevada and o...

>> i had hoped we could have gone to the floor this week, but we are not quite there. i think we've got a really good chance of getting there. it will take us a little bit longer. >> reporter: town halls over recess? >> some have town halls. some don't. >> reporter: the president getting involved in these details of negotiating, getting into the details of the bill that might bring wavering senators on board. what's his message overall? >> i think the main thing is, as i've said, the status quo is unsustainable. it will be dealt with in one of two ways. either republicans will agree and change...

Facing one of the toughest reelection fights. he is dealing with problems on the left and now problems on the right. it will be interesting to see how the white house explains what they are doing with senator heller at the briefing today. >> jon: is the white house leaning on some of these wavering senators or promising to support them in some way? have you heard any of that? >> it seems to be mainly behind the scenes, the president is not using the bully pulpit. he has tweeted seven times this morning, he tweeted about russia, the media, loretta lynch, he did not tweet about health care, he d...

Money they want, i'm not backing down. >> and you look at the three leaders in the house republican leadership, one's from ohio, one's from virginia, one's from california. and i always emphasize that to people. they do have their eye on the larger ball, it seems, when it comes to this. but let me ask you this question. one of the attack lines that i've heard that could scuttle immigration reform is just the pure cost. >> exactly. >> and some conservative fiscal groups might go at it that way. >> what we're learning about the bill the gang of eight is crafting right now, and it's the border se...