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Thursday is when the republicans are going to hold their vote on repealing obamacare. the president went to capitol hill today to twist arms, to line up republicans to vote for the repeal bill. congressman mark meadows is chairman of the freedom caucus. he says he was a firm no when he walked into the meeting with the president today and he said he was still a firm no when he walked out despite the president threatening him in front of all the other republicans in the room. it's hard to say how many members of the freedom caucus are on mark meadows' side on this but even if half the members vo...

The repeal bill. congressman mark meadows is chairman of the freedom caucus. he says he was a firm no when he walked into the meeting with the president today and he said he was still a firm no when he walked out despite the president threatening him in front of all the other republicans in the room. it's hard to say how many members of the freedom caucus are on mark meadows' side on this but even if half the members vote against the bill, that's it. that's all it would take, the bill would be toast, game over. nbc has been keeping a whip count of members of the republican caucus who say they ...

The other republicans in the room. it's hard to say how many members of the freedom caucus are on mark meadows' side on this but even if half the members vote against the bill, that's it. that's all it would take, the bill would be toast, game over. nbc has been keeping a whip count of members of the republican caucus who say they might vote no. so far 27 republicans in the house say they are against the bill or strongly leaning against it. 27. that's over and above the 22 no votes that would be enough to kill the bill and the pressure isn't just from the far right, it's coming from the center...

Fox news contributor. the hill is keeping a whip count where they feel the house is and say they're down 17. does the president change minds today do you think? >> well, it's not just about changing minds but preventing leakage and we're not talking about leaks of information but the number starts to slide because when something looks like it could die that makes it more likely people will abandon it by trump arriving today he said this is mine, this is trump care, i own it and if you're voting against it you're voting against me and that will do a lot to buck up the spirits of conservatives w...

Calling out the freedom caucus mark meadows saying he's going to come after him. and that's sort of with the broad meeting and we know he's having private discussions with smaller groups, individual discussions, twisting arms. and it's not just about do this for me. it's because -- and it's pretty clear that this is a message he's sending. these guys all come from the red est of red districts, trump land. >> even congressman mark meadows after the meeting said he hasn't changed his mind. he said there are more than 21 members of his own caucus that are opposed. the question to david, our exper...