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>> the president has acted like lyndon johnson trying to arm twist and massage the vote to get to 60 votes. you need a little leavening of ronald reagan, bill clinton or abe lincoln to talk to the country about why this is important. yet the president seems to have been reluctant until recently to really sock it in on some of these things. if he would have gone around the country talking about how important the public option was in these various states, those senators might have given him the 60 votes. it's a chicken and egg thing. you just can't say we don't have the 60 votes. you won't get t...

Across. remember of course roy moore in alabama.n secondly it's a matter of strategy. there's not enough time between now and the election to put forth another mom nii and get the nominee confirmed most likely. if that's the case they're taking chances on how the election turns out. if democrats were to win, and remember it's a 51-49 senate right now, it's a very different ball game for the supreme court seat. the best strategypr is to try t get judge kavanaugh in there relatively quickly, which is why youck saw senator mcconnell getp on the floor today and vow he will have the vote regardless...

Was -- that has been utilized for decades. >> loni, i want to repeat what the secretary has just said. all they have to do is dust off how they did business before obamacare. is that an effective sales pitch to wavering senators? >> well, right. this is a challenge, because we've had seven years of intervening history. ask and that's the really difficult part. this extra time allows for mitch mcconnell to say who do we need to put pressure on to come around on this legislation. what are the things still standing in the way of us and the 50 votes that are necessary to get this across the finish...

I don't think it's sanctimonious to live up to a campaign promise, frankly. >> i'm curious, can you elaborate on that? are you surprised his greatest anger is with his own party seemingly and not with the republicans who pushed him into this position? >> i think there's a lot of people in our caucus that are concerned about that. but i -- you know, i'm asking the president to live up to his campaign promise. and i don't know who he is talking about with sanctimonious but it was an unfortunate choice of words that i would guess he have probably wished he hadn't said. >> reporter: that was from ...