, they believe passing graham casady is extremely difficult at this point but not altogether close just got off the phone with mark short and he said this to me at this point we're only two votes away we'll continue to working to get the two votes. susan collins and lisa murkowski will keep going forward. i asked them specifically about what the white house could do to earn over the senators susan collins said she is leaning against them i asked about a sweetener for alaska as had been reported. potentially there were some kick backs for the state that would help get murkowski on board. he said verbatim, there isn't such a thing in this bill. finally, i asked them for the chance of a bipartisan effort. he said it's too soon to talk about that at least from the white house perspective, melissa, despite the fact that john mccain is a no, rand paul is a knno, the wht house thinks there's a slim chance. >>> mike, we did see health care stocks rally when we first took out the initial indications that this would not pass. this has implications for tax. >> it does certainly i don't think

the other big one out there is to repeal obamacare is the graham casady bill. there are still some republicans that have differences with that. they're trying to push it but not everyone is on board. in fact, ten governors have written to the senate saying that they preferred the marketplace correction. in other words, dealing with the situation as it is right now to the graham casady bill. it's not clear that any of these will pass by the end of the 30th they'll need 60, not 50 votes to get it done. >> tracie potts live on capitol hill for us. thank you. >>> 4:48 now. the woman who breached security at the white house at least five times is now free. a judge released her saying she's served enough time already. she has been locked up or had been locked up since the 4th of july when she tried to jump the white house fence. >>> there are new developments surrounding the death of seth bridge, the democratic national committee staffer was shot and killed last year. "usa today" reports fox news is asking a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a long time com

grants to the states, it still leaves too much intact. >> i've always been yes for repeal the graham casady peel keeps almost all of the spending and reshuffles it and block grants it to the states so i don't think block granting oake doesn't make it go away, it means you're keeping all the money we've sbn spending throbe through oake abamacare and reshuffling it >> senator graham says they will press ahead with a vote on the bill this week. >>> to tax reform. president trump is expected to give a speech outlining the big six. axios says the top tax rate will be cut from 39.6% to 35% corporate tax rate will be taken down to 20% from current 35. the yesterday president trump told reporters he hopes to see the corporate tax rate lowered to 15% but that's a target republican leaders, including house speaker paul ryan says is impossible to reach without adding too much money to the federal debt >>> on the other political story that dominates headlines, president trump taking on the nfl in a big way over the weekend. in a series of tweets the president blasting the league for allowing players to

is he doing this because of the failure it appears now of graham casady and that again there's not going to be a health care law? >> reporter: can i tell you, when he was getting grief from his base on daca he suddenly threw chum in the water and going after espn. here we go again, john mccain says he's a no vote. it changes the tone of that rally in alabama and all of a sudden here comes the president ripping on the nfl. what are we talking about this morning, a fight with the nfl which the white house thinks is a good fight for them when it comes to their politics. we're not talking about the umpteenth fail our to get repeal and replace in. >> chuck todd, thanks as always. we'll see you on "meet the press". >>> some other headlines this morning. in mexico city, the search for survivors is entering the fifth day. it's killed 300 people so far. more panic for an overwhelmed area when an after shock rattled the country. nbc's miguel almaguer is in the country. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, willie. as you can see, the rescue workers are working around the clock. there was anothe