let's bring back simon rosenber rosenberg, matt schlapp real quick. want to get your word, first of all final word. matt, as far as this proceeding with the amendments that bret and i were talking about. do you believe that those amendments will make or break the vote to proceed to a debate? >> totally. this initial vote, i believe they will get there. once you proceed, it is all about what happens. i don't think anybody has a firm handle, including the whip of the united states senate, exactly how this will go down. today or whether they will pass or not. i think it is very close call. throughout the entire process, and the one thing i'm very confident of the publican's insurers have gotten the message loud and clear over the course of last week that failure to get this done will have devastating consequences. >> julie: and we are watching. here is to to watch. we are still awaiting three senators to vote on this. so far, we have lisa murkowski of alaska, no. senator mccain is just now arriving on the hill. he is the man of the hour. his vote is cruc

joining me to discuss healthcare, jeff sessions and much more is mollie hemingway and matt schlapp.core that they are not entirely forthcoming because they are presenting it as though people are losing their understand as opposed to making a decision not to have understand. matt: it's the only thing cbo has been consistent with on all these republican bills. is there is 16 million americans who don't want to be forced by the government to buy healthcare. it may not be the word's most of responsible decision but that comes with a free society where the government can't tell you how to spend your money. under the kinney repeal which will not be the law of the land. what it tells you is most of people would be able to find an insurance option under a republican proposal. trish: this is not going to be what ultimately happens. we should preface this all with that. they need to come up with something better and have the cbo score it all over again. theyover 8ed how many people would be insured. understated wildly. we should make good policy decisions and not hope the cbo will help make t

from washington, matt schlapp, chairman of the american conservative union. matt, i saw you on fox news this week sticking up for your old friend jeff sessions. how do you think about the banging on the pinata that is this president's cyber torture of jeff sessions? >> i just looked before he went on the air and me made some comment, he said it was a bit hurtful. it's been painful for me. i have a high regard for jeff sessions and i support the president and it's been hard to watch these -- the president's tweets against jeff sessions. i for one do understand why he's frustrated and all this. it's frustrateling for people who -- frustrating for people who support president trump -- >> well, wait, let me stop you. i understand being president is being frustrating but our old boss didn't send me out to the white house briefing room to publicly attack any sitting member of his cabinet. i mean, he was frustrated all the time, go to the gym, take a pill. you don't attack the members of your cabinet on twitter when you're frustrated. i need a better excuse than frus

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and matt schlapp, he's the chairman of the american conservative union and the former deputy political director for president george w. bush. welcome to both of you, matt and karine. speaking of fires, i have to ask both of you first about a story, a remarkable story that has just appeared late this afternoon in the "new yorker" magazine, matt. essentially it's the new head of communications at the white house, anthony scaramucci, placing a phone call last night to the writer ryan lizza and screaming at him, wanting to know who leaked information about a dinner using very strong language, threatening virtually him, saying, "i need to know who the leakers are," saying he's gone to the f.b.i., the department of justice. what's going on at the white house? >> well, my driver over to the studio was going to have my 14-year-old care read this article to me. i'm glad i didn't because it does have some colorful act waj. i think anthony scaramucci is already on twitter apologizing for the language, but i think the key here is this whole question of leaks inside the west wing is a real cancer.

s efforts to obstruct the trump administration, olympic media managing editor katie frates and matt schlappne. all the nonsense is or. what is left is a smoldering embarrassed mitch mcconnell who has proved he doesn't have any business running the republicans in the senate. katie: the whole thing is depressing, you control the house, the senate and you can't get anything done. i don't know why senators assume being in politic is an all or nothing game. they will never get everything they want he time. this bill was the perfect, but it's better than obamacare. the fact that people said no way, you have no business being in the senate and working for your constituent if you fail to compromise on anything. lou: you have got two beauties in ryan and mcconnell. the membership has to be appalled by what they have to put up with in mccon and ryan. matt: you have republicans who for seven years went around the country saying they wanted to repeal obamacare. i don't thin think it's true for mcconnell. he realizes this failure yep dieses the republican majority in the senate. sue and collins and othe

guy benson, julie pace, matt schlapp.we've been showing the senator from wyoming on the floor. >> for two and half days i've been listening, giving extra time to the other side to speak. i've been hoping that out of that i would get one constructive suggestion for what could be done with health care. it's all been criticism. >> bret: democrats have been sitting on their hands, i have not amendments. we are expecting to see a flurry of amendments. your thoughts on the process on what it looks like. >> chris stirewalt refer to it as sausage making. there is sausage making and then there is whatever this is. you have senators openly begging the house of representatives never to vote for the thing they are about to vote for. they are saying we're going to pass a garbage bill. we know it's garbage. that's an unusual thing to see. i understand the reason why. they want to get it to conference. they want to come up with something better. i spoke to some leadership aides earlier who said there were reasons behind it and why they

matt schlapp, and eugene robins. the inside guy, first. you. know i talked to someone from our country's history who said i will take the job of chief of staff if they get the two kids out of there. his son-in-law, daughter, his son, he trust them more than any hireling. despite that, the general, general kelly, apparently wooed for this job since may. which tells me he has leverage. he said if you really want me, i will serve and this new job if i get to have the job. like jim baker td with reagan. i get to fire. i get to hire. you get that? >> kind of. >> he's the boss. >> jim baker, remember, was one of three. he was chief of staff. but he had to deal with the long time friend -- >> but no one was frepd -- they were afraid of baker. >> the reason he was successful is that man was damn competent. he did a good job. he earned the president's trust. if you say, i've got the title therefore i've got the goods and he was taken for for a test drive -- >> you have to come to work very early to be president's chief of staff because you have done the

let's bring in matt schlapp and anita dunn. great the see both of you. anita, anthony scaramucci is an interesting guy. he is on the record, on twitter, on videotape, disagreeing with many of president trump's positions. anthony scaramucci is pro choice, pro gun control, against the death penalty, he's called president trump a spectacle. he says he doesn't like how prs has spoken about women. i could go on. how is this going to work for? >> it's not unusual, especially when you've gone through a contested primary purpose. this does seem to be a rather aggravated example of that. anthony scaramucci has made the decision he is going to be donald trump's spokesperson. and in that capacity, he is in many ways, like his lawyer, i've always said a good press secretary is like a good lawyer, you're arguing your case. what's interesting about your approach to the job is rather than seeing it as a job where he's communicating the administration's priorities out to the public, at least initially he seems to see the job as one where he has to communicate to the pre

. >> julie: matt schlapp, thank you simon roseburg. let's listen. >> shepard: good afternoon from fox news in new york. those of you watching on fox television stations and fox news channel around the world, this is fox news coverage of the motion to proceed, the motion to take up debate on the new healthcare bill. john mccain has just entered the senate floor. diagnosed with brain cancer and treated and made his way to the capitol and will speak after the vote is complete. that applause for john mccain who our viewers on fox news channel know just walked into the senate chambers. the vote on the republican side is all but complete. they're now voting -- the democrats are now voting. here's what happens. the republicans have gotten on the record and voted on the motion to proceed. this would be the new healthcare bill. trumpcare, if you will. there's two no votes. senator murkowski and senator susan collins of maine. those are the two republican votes in the negative. there are two more republicans yet to vote. senator ron johnson, the

with us remote from washington, matt schlapp from the american conservative union. thank you for joining us here. let me pick whereupon the rest of the gang left off. when we ore talking about this. when we look at the political fallout, jonathan, how do you see this playing out for the white house? how do you see this playing out for the president moving forward? as peter points out the line is he didn't know about this meeting. he wasn't there. he wasn't involved. walk me through the next steps. >> well, that's right. the white house has said that the president wasn't there. he was in new york that day. and he had only become the presumption nominee a few weeks prior. it seems like the white house has a good stretch of days the word russia falls on them again. they were feeling good last week. there were questions raised about the meeting with vladimir putin, but they felt the president was authoritative, came back on a high note and yet this is happening again. they're in damage control. you are seeing donald trump jr. deny it of course on twitter. you are seeing

bush and a radio host with her husband, matt, and she specializes in cooking big human meals. mercedes schlapp is here. and he was a speaker at the 2016 republican national convention, he is also a frequent guest on the fox news channel and he's the chairman of gopac, but he specializes in being a good listener. what a good quality. that's how he gets all his info. david avella is here with us again. i was kind of disgusting, i get the notion of repealing obamacare. i have been one of the staunchest critics of these sky-high premiums that hurt all americans. but what you see the g.o.p. going on that issue? >> there's a huge sense of frustration, obviously, coming out of congress, nothing able to bring both moderates and conservatives to the table to get the job done. this is why republicans were voted, and there was a clear mandate of repealing and replacing obamacare. because when you look at the fact that there is a destabilization in our individual insurance markets, that's troubling. when you have the fact that you're still seeing premiums continue to rise, i mean a family of four next yea