mike lee was part of the cruz-lee amendment and suddenly he walked off stage right, way right? >> it was surprising when he was the one that came out against it. you're right, he and cruz had gotten together. they wanted to see a bill that brings premiums down. it's true that the bill they're considering would lower premiums to a degree in the future because insurers would be able to celiner plans. it's a little unclear why he chickened out at the end. the conservative groups were putting pressure on him to hold fast and say all of obamacare needs to be repealed. that's why they pushed for these extra opt-outs for insurers. now he's going along with this repeal-only idea. now mcconnell seems to be swayed by that and is considering bringing that to the floor. that probably wouldn't pass either. >> hadas, very quickly, how often do you see a senator, orrin hatch, take a whack at a senator, mike lee? that's not widely done when they're both in the same party and the same state. what does that tell you? >> it tells me there's incredible frustrations within the republican senators r

senator who opposed, mike lee.to the time of all this, it's my understanding that president trump is meeting with some of your fellow republican senators within the white house, having a dinner, trying to push forward with support for this better care reconciliation act. all of a sudden, you and jerry moran come out with your opposition that essentially blew up the chances for passage of the bill and the senate. why do it then? why announcer opposition? >> when this bill was first released to us on thursday and over the weekend, when it concluded over the weekend is that this bill complied with the promise with promises that have been made over the last several years. he campaigned on the promise of repealing obamacare. obamacare has made health care unaffordable and inaccessible. we've promised it for the last seven years and we didn't do it. >> jon: mitch mcconnell has said he will call for a vote to simply repeal obamacare, like the one that passed the senate in 2015. would you vote for it? >> i will vote for an

and now obviously mike lee has come out hard against it.d i expect overs to follow suit. >> you're talking about the argument that you can be against this from the right rather than from the left. >>yes. >> in your view, is that 100% the motivation or does the deep unpopularity of this bill also reflect a political calculus by some republicans they don't want to pass it and obviously if you're in a republican primary you want to come up with a reason for that from the right rather than the left? >> i think most of the -- especially mike lee and if ben sass for instance is to come out and say he's against back sawin he's against it, i think they are going to approach it in the right and they're going to say that this is not a bill that moves in the correct direction. it doesn't address the issues that we have in terms of health care. truce and others have said this is the right point to get to a step at something more similar. but yeah, approaching it from the right is the best shot at keeping their conservative base happy. what's going to b

but since then, senatorsjerry moran and senator mike lee have come out against this.iggest concern, we have got statements, the biggest concern is that senator moran... or senator mike lee says that after conferring with trusted experts, they feel that it doesn't do enough for lowering premiums, as well as flexibility... as well as flexibility in the states. and basically, mcconnell has a bit of a problem. in essence, he doesn't have his party... his party has splintered, effectively, and there are too many factions in the party. there are just too many people who have too many different issues, and in essence, you can't have your cake and eat it too, as many experts would say. so president trump has come out and tweeted, saying that he was republicans to start from a clea n was republicans to start from a clean slate, which isn't actually that far from what democratic leader schumer said, asking for republicans to start from scratch, and work with democrats. some critics would say, really, that this is a bit of an for the republican embarrassment for the republican p

mike lee ought to know - he's from bev mo - plus - a die hard movie buff.d for fun - he's pouring celebrity wines. like country crooner - zak brown's uncaged. or local rocker - train's - san francisco soul sister. here's a fav - christy brinkley's bubbly called bellissima.(mike lee - bevmo) uptown girl is right here and then you have a nice little hat tip to the venus de milo. or if yous prefer a top rated rose... from a marriage on the rocks... ... so no sour grapes for brangelina. of course god-father director francis ford coppela has been making wine for some time. his movie director daughter sofia has a blush called... sofia. (vicki liviakis) coppola makes sense but how about hunter pence? yes, even giant's slugger hunter pence makes his own wine.(mike lee - bevmo) i'm surprised that he even has his own pence royalty wine. i think that's hard to find. uh that's from my private stash. all kinds of athletes are playing in the wine game. from hoopster yao ming to former raiders safety charles woodson to and joe montana all make big napa valley reds with a

what the senate reduces the next two or three days and keep that coalition together and not have mike lee or rand paul drop off. kennedy: all of the people that you mention, all the nors, chad, they were all on the fence and we didn't know how the vote was going to go, this motion to proceed. let's take a look at senator mccain's speech on the floor of the senate. >> we tried to do this by coming up with a proposal behind closed doors in consultation with the administration and springing it on sceptical members trying to convince them that it's better than nothing. that it's better than nothing? ing us to swallow our doubts and force it past a unified opposition, i don't think that will work in the end and probably shouldn't. kennedy: he had quite a few people he was admonishing including some of his colleagues in the senate and a little bit for the president. what was the strange jest thing you saw as all of this was firming up into that crucial vote? >> probably the strange jest thing was ron johnson, republican nor of wisconsin. he had been for one of the other iterations of obamacare,

mike lee ought to know - he's from bev mo - plus - a die hard movie buff. and for fun - he's pouring celebrity wines. like country crooner - zak brown's uncaged. or local rocker - train's - san francisco soul sister. here's a fav - christy brinkley's bubbly called bellissima.(mike lee - bevmo) uptown girl is right here and then you have a nice little hat tip to the venus de milo. or if yous prefer a top rated rose... from a marriage on the rocks... ... so no sour grapes for brangelina. of course god-father director francis ford coppela has been making wine for some time. his movie director daughter sofia has a blush called... sofia. (vicki liviakis) coppola makes sense but how about hunter pence? yes, even giant's slugger hunter pence makes his own wine.(mike lee - bevmo) i'm surprised that he even has his own pence royalty wine. i think that's hard to find. uh that's from my private stash. all kinds of athletes are playing in the wine game. from hoopster yao ming to former raiders safety charles woodson to and joe montana all make big napa valley reds with

here is the full statement first from senator mike lee of utah.e said last night in his full statement "after conferring with trusted expert regarding the consumer freedom amendment, i decided i cannot support the current version of the better care reconciliation act. in addition to not repealing all the obamacare taxes, it does not go far enough in lowering premiums for middle-class families nor does it create enough free space for the most costly obamacare regulations." also the statement from senator moran of kansas. his full statement last night following that tweet. he said "there are serious problems with obamacare and michael remains what it has been -- my goal remains to repeal and replace it. the closed-door process yielded the better care reconciliation act which fails to repeal the affordable care act or address health care's rising cost. for the same reason i cannot support the previous version of the bill, i cannot support this version of the bill." that he also at the fed in that statement, did not support the original version of the

at one point senator cruz stepped away from mike lee and was directly negotiating with mitch mcconnellion is something senator lee was not happy with, and he says it specifically in his statement. he said, after conferring with trusted experts regarding the latest version of the consumer tree dom amendment and that was the amendment he was coauthoring with ted cruz, i'm decided i cannot support the current investigation. in addition to not repealing all of the owe bake awe care taxes it doesn't go far enough in lowering premiums for middle class nor does it create enough free space. he is somebody that we've been watching closely and his displeasure with the bill has not been necessarily that vocal but he was against the bill when it was the first version of the health reform bill but he said he was open to working and negotiating on the second bill but he never fully embraced it. he was very concerned with the way medicaid would pay out in this version of health care reform. he was somebody that was never really comfortable with it and today he made it official that he kaecan't suppor

mike lee ought to know - he's from bev mo - plus - a die hard movie buff. - he's pouring celebrity wines. like country crooner - zak brown's uncaged. or local rocker - train's - san francisco soul sister. here's a fav - christy brinkley's bubbly called bellissima.(mike lee - bevmo) uptown girl is right here and then you have a nice little hat tip to the venus de milo. or if yous prefer a top rated rose... from a marriage on the rocks... ... so no sour grapes for brangelina. of course god-father director francis ford coppela has been making wine for some time. his movie director daughter sofia has a blush called... sofia. (vicki liviakis) coppola makes sense but how about hunter pence? yes, even giant's slugger hunter pence makes his own wine.(mike lee - bevmo) i'm surprised that he even has his own pence royalty wine. i think that's hard to find. uh that's from my private stash. all kinds of athletes are playing in the wine game. from hoopster yao ming to former raiders safety charles woodson to and joe montana all make big napa valley reds with a lot of cr

senators mike lee of utah and jerry moran of kansas, announcing their opposition. in a statement moran said quote, "we should not put our stamp of approval on bad policy".. that triggered a late night tweet from the president calling on repubi obamacare now and start from a clean slate" and thats apparently just what mitch mcconnel is going to do. the senate majority leader saying early this morning that he will push the senate to pass a clean repeal bill. mcconnell says he will hold a vote in the coming days. developing now in fairfax county - a body found in a centreville pond. "sky trak seven" flew over the scene on trinity parkway late last night. this is right near the newgate shopping center. police tell us the body is an adult male - but it's still unclear how he died. we'll update you as soon as we learn more. happening today in charles county, maryland.. a community meeting will be held about the former teacher's aide and coach accused of sexually assaulting children. carlos bell was arrested last month. police believe he sexually assaulted at least ten st

senator mcconnell lost kansas senator jerry moran and utah senator mike lee. they both issued statements tonight at the same time. mike lee said, in addition to not repealing all of the obamacare taxes, it doesn't go far enough in lowering premiums for middle class families, nor does it create enough free space from the most costly obamacare regulations. and, yes, that statement is self-contradictory. what you're going to see in all of the republican -- almost all the republican opposition to this bill is that the republican senators opposing it lay out principles that are absolutely unmeetable by any form of this legislation. senator moran criticized the closed-door process that produced the bill, and he said, we should not put our stamp of approval on bad policy. furthermore, if we leave the federal government in control of everyday health care decisions, it is more likely that our health care system will devolve into a single-payer system, which would require a massive federal spending increase. we must now start fresh with an open legislative process to de

utah senator mike lee coming up to say what he expects on today's hearing. >> we will see what happens on the attorney general. time will tell. >> bill: that was president trump in the rose garden talking about jeff sessions. former house speaker newt gingrich more on that next appeared and we should not rush to judgment. >> he is very angry and troubled by the one-sided way of the investigation process. i think we ought to wait and see how this works out. managing blood sugar is a series of smart choices. and when you replace one meal... ...or snack a day with glucerna... ...made with carbsteady... ...to help minimize blood sugar spikes... ...you can really feel it. now with 30% less carbs and sugars. glucerna. >> the u.s. intelligence community is warning of impending rocket launching from iran. trump promised to put tehran on notice. in some can predict that will be as soon as tonight. >> i'm disappointed in the attorney general. he should not have recused himself almost immediately after he took office. if he was going to recuse himself, he should've told me before taking office. i

mike lee of utah and jerry moran of kansas said they could not vote for gop healthcare reform bill. >> the bill never addressed increasing cost of healthcare. they're among four that would not support the bill. this was second straight failure for mitch montgomery connell. mcconnell issued a statement conceding effort to repeal and replace the affordable air exact. the plan is to repeal obamacare immediately and have a two year delay for a substitute. >> president trump took to twitter after the gop health care failed and president tweeted republicans should just repeal failing obamacare now and work on a new healthcare plan that will start from a clean slate. dext ms will join in. >> evolving overnight a house panel a proved new legislation to cut funding of transportation. 31-20 vote they rejected democratic effort to add $200 billion to infrastructure package instead a spending measure to provide 1.8 billion in funding for dot in 2018 they slashed 646 million out of current spending levels. >>> new this morning, speed cameras installed along 495 suitland road and the cameras will f

it is sending a message not only to ted cruz and mike lee, who oppose the current version of the senate bill, for he is sending a message to everyone that there will be a bill this year. the obamacare markets are in trouble right now. everybody agrees they need some help. the insurers say there is too much uncertainty right now. they need some assurance that there will be a law in effect next year. they will be funding to backup all the things they are liable for. i think a truly bipartisan bill to repair the affordable care act is a long way off. i do not think we will get to that point this year. but some small patchwork fixes are possibility. host: so this response from senator chuck schumer says with -- the issues with exchanges are flexible and open the door to bipartisan solutions to improve our health care system. as we have said time and time again, said senator schumer, democrats are eager to work republicans to stabilize markets and approve the law. at the top of the list should be ensuring cost-sharing payments that are permanent and will protect health care for millions." ho

jerry moran and mike lee.ve a look at why the lawmakers came out against the bill and how the process to repeal the affordable care act will work. >>> it's a case that sends shivers through a lot of parents, the take action to see that it never happens again. >> parents want to know why it took seven months to arrest a classroom aide. >> carlos bell was arrested earlier this month but parents found suspicious texts in december on phones. the group women of action is having a town hall meeting tonight. the goal is to show parents how to ida bus and how to talk with their children about abuse. the meeting starts at 7:00 at the church at st. charles in waldorf. benjamin stoddard middle school -- the first meeting set for friday, july 28th at 7:00 p.m. at the school. >>> they've been blaming a backlog of evidence. the maryland state police computer forensic lab has four people to process all their cases. th

those two were senator mike lee of utah and senator jerry moran of kansas.enator moran issued a statement describing why he opposed the bill saying the closed door process yielded the bcra, which fails to repeal the affordable care act or address healthcare's rising costs with the loss of those two votes, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell couldn't afford those two votes. he saw the writing on the wall president trump, as you might imagine, responded in kind a couple hours later on twitter saying that republicans should just repeal failing obamacare now and work on a new healthcare plan that will start from a clean slate. dems will join in. it looks like that's what republicans plan to do now senate majority leader mitch mcconnell saying we couldn't agree on the replacement part of obamacare. let's go for the repeal part first what they will try to do is they will try and pass just simply a repeal. getting rid of owe cbamacare a l altogether it will be phased in and that will give congress time to come up with an adequate replacement. they were able to a

two more republican senators mike lee of utah, jerry moran of kansas, both together say they are going to vote no to advance the bill. they join the two other republican no votes. collins of michigan, rand paul of context, that means despite having the majority in the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell now does not have the votes he needs to move this legislation forward. a reminder here is the what the president promised about health care legislation back in may after the house passed their version of the bill. >> we're going to get this passed through the senate. i feel so confident. >> moments ago, the president responded to this news on twitter and we'll get into this as well. quote republicans should repeal failing obamacare now. and work on a new health care plan that will start from a clean slate. dems will join in. in a statement a few minutes ago mitch mcconnell said the senate would vote quote in the coming days to repeal obamacare, quote, with a two-year delay to give lawmakers time to come up with replacement. more on all of this with our correspondents in just a moment

mike lee is not as excited. it got changed a little bit and ted cruz never said he would say yes but he didn't say the word undecided. on the complete other end are moderates that were watching for shelley capito, rob portman of ohio, dean holland of nevada, john hoban of north dakota, those are all more moderate members who have concerns about medicaid, which was not changed in this draft. some actually they were just meeting with mitch mcconnell and kind of sharing their concerns. but they are saying they are going to wait until the congressional budget office scores this next week before they come out because nobody wants to be the third vote. they've already said no so everyone is kind of watching to see if there is the third now and no one wants to be the first to take down the bill so i think they will all wait until they can look at their final scores. >> let's talk about the timeline over the next couple of days and will there be a vote next week on the floor of the senate? >> republican leadership is sa

utah senator mike lee recalled the forgotten men and women who fought against a large federal government during america's founding. new america president and ceo ann marie slaughter looks how technology impacts foreign affairs. in following weeks on "after words" they will retrace the development of iphone. also the thoughts on the trump residency and future of american politics. this week on "after words," temple university professor heath davis looks at gender identity. >> i was inspired to write this book by a very strange kind of policy we had in the cityphiladelphia. our public transportation authority used to require that everybody who bought a monthly pass had to have a sex sticker, a gender marker, either m for male or f for female on their pass. this created a lot of, what i call sex identity discrimination within the city, and in particular, one transgender woman, charlene, a friend of mine, an an activist fortrans rights in philadelphia brought a lawsuit in against the company, when she was offered f marked pass was turned away. the bus driver said you can't use this in my opi

and then there is the mike lee and ted cruz plan which senator lee outlined on the show today.t has the the big problem of the high-risk, pools that it creates, or those obama care plans that it creates. that, that also seem quite politically risky. certainly, senate leadership is not overly enthusiastic about. not sure how they get to yes. i think the best possible way would be, mitch mcconnell using his considerable talents, but he has got a very, very tiny margin there. he can only lose two republican votes. as i say, six have already said they, they're not for it. >> all right, john dickerson. thanks. >>> millions of americans are already on the move ahead of the fourth of july holiday. nearly 45 million people will travel at least 50 miles from home. one reason for the surge in travelers, gas prices. triple a expects the national average to be $2.21 by tuesday. that's the lowest july fourth average in a dozen years. >>> some americans will have to find a new place to spend the holiday. parks and beaches in several states will be closed this year, because lawmakers have bee

other people to watch our mike lee who is close with the house freedom caucus. they are working whether they should support something like this. mike lee was one of the people who put the nail on the -- in the coffin for the replacement bill. a lot is happened in one week. he was against the replacement. he said he wanted to push the bill further to the right. it sounds like he could , fortially vote for this repeal only. we are watching him and other people to watch, susan collins. i don't think she will vote yes on this because she voted against repeal only back in the day a couple of years ago. people arefferent involved. rob portman is another one. if they can i get him, they cannot get anything done. he still has a moderate expansion. came jerry moran of kansas out with bank lead to effectively kill that bill for a couple of days last week. is he back on board? >> yes, it sounds like he is likely to vote for this. i believe he said he would back repeal only. marantz took me by surprise. he said the bill does not get rid of enough government regulations but

dickerson: you got that and the mike lee side of it. isn't the primary driver had republicans have been promised to repeal this and if mcconnell's bill passes it's not repealed >> they should have done the first day sign the i now repeal the obamacare act and blank underneath that with date and go on and move on. that's where when senator sass that's something that paul ryan was talking about in march. do something. i agree that the idea of collins and rand paul will find some connection, some magic moment. i'll know how to fly. >> there's one other idea which is that the democrats can join together were the republicans coming up, you have the democrats from colorado and john kasich in ohio republicans saying they had an idea for bipartisan healthcare reform, what are your thoughts about the prospect >> the prospect from that are not -- are that it can't happen yet. it is totally possible to imagine that happening down the road, but the mcconnell effort, which i agree with what everybody else has said which is is the only practical solu

there is another person, that is mike lee from utah. ted cruz feels they have leverage that if the majority leader does make too many up easements to the moderates trying to yet this to a vote next week, mike lee's departure from support would sink his chances. i spoke to several lawmakers on the house side where i am right now, they said it is very likely that whatever bill comes out of the senate, house members will fall in line to get this bill to the president's desk. mark: is there an increasing probability that there will be a vote by the august recess? how damaging is that? marty: it will be damaging to certain members, certainly to mitch mcconnell who prides himself on being able to deliver the vote. it will be difficult for the republican agenda, which is always been repeal and replace. recess, they will move toward this bipartisan quickfix bill that will just repair the exchanges so the health care system doesn't collapse. i think donald trump would declare victory. mark: we're still awaiting the cbo analysis and. how might th

trish: should jerry moran, mike lee, be out? do you think they run that risk or constituents liking what they do? >> it's a long way when they're up for re-election. i would say this. we got lemons. let's make some lemonade. what they ought to do, we'll pull back, we'll start fresh. we'll come at it new, what do you agree with, what do we not agree with? find incremental progress. maybe we don't do it in one big bill. maybe we do smaller things trying to get them done. there get to be parliamentary issues with reconciliation in order to do that. trish: that is the rand paul problem. you still have the susan collins problem. >> maybe passage of time, maybe week or two will convince people, you know what? i shouldn't stand in the way of progress. look, senator paul do you think he is feeling comfortable? trish: i think he is just fine. >> he can get on every show and say you know what? here is the way forward. part of that is his way or the highway. part is feeling heat, people say wait a minute, why are you standing in way of thi

mike lee ought to know - he's from bev mo - plus - a die hard movie buff. and for fun - he's pouring celebrity wines. like country crooner - zak brown's uncaged. or local rocker - train's - san francisco soul sister. here's a fav - christy brinkley's bubbly called bellissima.(mike lee - bevmo) uptown girl is right here and then you have a nice little hat tip to the venus de milo. or if yous prefer a top rated rose... from a marriage on the rocks... ... so no sour grapes for brangelina. of course god-father director francis ford coppela has been making wine for some time. his movie director daughter sofia has a blush called... sofia. (vicki liviakis) coppola makes sense but how about hunter pence? yes, even giant's slugger hunter pence makes his own wine.(mike lee - bevmo) i'm surprised that he even has his own pence royalty wine. i think that's hard to find. uh that's from my private stash. all kinds of athletes are playing in the wine game. from hoopster yao ming to former raiders safety charles woodson to and joe montana all make big napa valley reds with

senator mike lee said in addition to not repeeling all the obama care taxes, it doesn't go far enough in lowering premiums for middle class families. nor does it create nuf free space from the most costly obama care regulations. under jerry moran, he was miffed at the strategy. this closed door process has yielded a dcra that fails to appeal the affordable care act or address rising costs. there were storm clouds ahead with others. senator ron johnson of wisconsin was suddenly waivering as well over reported comments from mitch mcconnell who apparently told colleagues that future medicaid cuts would never happen. >> i did find the story about the comments about medicaid reforms just too far in the future to be enacted. i found those troubling. that might put it into jeopardy. >> which way are you leaning right now? >> i was strongly -- after i read those comments. i found those rather troubling. >> now, one time a vote seemed imminent, but it was delayed over the weekend after senator john mccain underwent surgery to remove a blood clot above his left eye. after senators lee and moran

some of the senators who have been noes or not yes yet this amendment that ted cruz and mike lee putn is something that might get them there. >> are you optimistic you guys can get this done before august? >> we certainly should be able to. we have information. i received some studies that hhs has been sitting on that caused premiums to the increase. they can utilize to fund those high-risk pools or, you know, really kind of address other members' concerns. i think we certainly have the maneuvering room to get this done and we should get it done. >> so, hallie, you're watching thursday. i'm watching monday. because i think as many of these senators said they have problemed based on what they saw thursday will tell us about what is in this bill and when we find out what the top line numbers are and the medicaid spending and things like that look like on monday and if the bill comes out thursday it might lag a few days. that is extremely telling of where this thing goes next. >> monday it is. that is the day we're watching. thank you very much. i want to bring in now former governor le

tonight as these senators, mike lee and jerry moran came out and said they were not going to support this bill, donald ltrum and mike lee were at the white house supporting other senators in hopes of get g more support for the bill. they're starting over here. these senators said they weren't going to support any kind of changes to this bill, they wan odd start from scratch. mish mcconnell definitely has his hands full with this. >> david, how do you repeal something? he says what he wanted to do. he wants to do -- the first amendment in order of being what a majority of the senate has already supported in 2015, that was vetoed by then president obama. so this is something they tried in 2015. that was vetoed by president obama. a repeal of obamacare with a two-year delay to provide for a stable transition period, a patient centered health care system that gives americans access to quality affordable care. you're going to replace it with something you don't know what it is. how is that going to fly among their constituents? how do they go back home and say we don't know what to replac

some senators might be won over, for example, mike lee said he will now vote question on the motion to proceed. president trump vr frustrated based on his tweets, the other one read as i always said let obama care fail and then come together and do a great health care plan, stay tuned. we are certainly staying tuned, inside this closed door meeting we expect some senators to offer push backs to mcconnell for his new plan and we should be getting a little more clarity. he says he wants a vote in the next couple days. we can certainly expect the next few days to be tumultuous. >> there is a side now with implications here. house republicans are about to unveil their new budget plan. susan malvo joins us from capitol hill. >> amazing when the budget becomes a side show here. this will happen in a hour or so. they will be unveiling this budget and they have had an incredible amount of infighting. they were really pushing for much deeper cuts here and what is critical to know is that the reconciliation to allow them to push through tax reform. that is why this is so critically important. wh

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so, what we're waiting on now is we've heard from mike lee that he's willing to support this plan. that's one of those conservatives who had come out last night and basically sunk the senate bill that they had spent all of those weeks negotiating. so now the question is, what will moderate senators do? are they willing to go along with this plan and let that debate open and take the risk and see what happens? our reporting has been that there are just not enough votes in the senate. republicans have been on record. many in leadership saying, we don't have the votes for this. the way mcconnell has set this up is start a debate on health care broadly and then potentially put that in as an amendment. it will probably fail. that raises a lot of questions. what is the end game and how does this whole process play out. i think over the next couple of hours you'll want to watch the moderate senators who had concerns very, very closely. still trying to catch up with susan collins. we don't want to presume or assume, but based on her previous comments, it would seem as though if she was opp

she's on the moderate side and on the conservative side you've got rand paul, mike lee, ted cruz who had said ron johnson is another one. they are not willing to vote for the bill as it was currently constructed. they are trying to improve the bill. ted cruz offered an amendment which some think might be able to garner some votes, but those are the ones to watch. we hybody else is barely on board. we haven't had too much rumbling from other republican senators on the moderate side. rob portman is another one to keep an eye on to see which way he's going to go on this. mitch mcconnell can only afford to lose one or two of these folks. he's not going to get any democrats to come along and support. he's in a bit of a tight spot. >> mitch mcconnell known as a savvy dealmaker. what is this going to mean for him for that reputation of ahe e dealmaker? >> the pressure is definitely on. nobody knows the institution of the senate or how to collect is better than mitch mcconnell, but this is going to be a reall test for him. republicans are two minds about this. some republicans think, you kno

>> mike lee and jerry moran, lee from utah and moran from kansas, they issued a joint tweet, if you willlast night around 8:30 taking political cover from each other, neither one going out on a limb themselves, basically they're coming at it from the rand paul perspective. you'll remember that there were two senators originally who came out and said they were against the bill, rand paul from kentucky who said it doesn't do enough to replace obamacare. obamacare has taxes and regulations in it. and sue son collins from maine said the medicaid cuts would hurt her constituents. the rand paul side of things saying it doesn't do enough to get rid of obamacare. we want to start clean. >> chris pollone, live on capitol hill for us. thank you. >>> 5:48. a woman arrested for trying to break on to the white house grounds will be back in court. alicia keppler was arrested on july 4th running along the south fence of the white house. this was the second straight year she tried to get on to the grounds. last year's case was dismissed when keppler agreed to undergo mental health treatment. >>> a drive

mike lee told me there is no way he would vote for any bill that doesn't include the cruz-lee amendment. so if they decide in that bill to write those things it will be up to the moderates to see what they are going to do. but everything i have seen from susan collins on down, someone will look at donald trump and say you don't get to have your bill. kennedy: the cruz-lee bill doesn't tackle the medicaid expansion. you could give people more flexibility. would that be enough? is it too much that it does thwart moderates? is it something that's so off-putting? >> each one of these moderates will have to figure out how much of this will alienate their base for reelection. but at least the cruz-lee plan is a plan. where the mcconnell keeps pushing a slightly warmed over version of the same thing every few weeks without any kind of public airing of it. the cbo scores come out but it's still a mystery to everybody. trying to cram this through before the recess will probably end this again. kennedy: you say they can still move on to tax reform it fails. do you believe that? >> i think mitch m

bill released by senator mcconnell last thursday died a couple of days ago when jerry moran and mike lee came out and said they could not support it. that's number three and four and they can only lose three senators. i think the president wants to get them all in a room and reiterate how much he would like them to pass it and how it is a promise he believes they have to .eep we have a couple of conservative amendments that were not enough to win over rand paul and mike lee, two other conservative senators and you have a number of moderate republican senators not happy with the severity of the cuts and who were alienated further by the cruz amendment so there is a wide gulf to bridge. julie: it seems like there is not a lot of optimism that it is going to be bridged, that there is going to be even an outright repeal at this point. as sahil mentioned, the president has been tweeting. do you have any sense from the white house what the tone of the lunch will be? kevin: the president has reserved his twitter the for theg -- lambasting media. in particular, i think someone senatorator more -

trade to senator mike lee, one of the final nails in the coffin for this repeal and replace bill. are the former chief of staff to be clear. what do you think that his thinking and what does he want to see in the republican repeal and replace bill? let's talk specifics. you mentioned the little guy at home, and obamacare subscriber. you've got to be pretty concerned right now. >> the important thing to remember his wallet to give people access to health insurance for the first time, not many have access to health care. premiums were so high deductibles were so high that people were going to the doctor because they can afford it. we have to get things like hsa survey have pretax dollars to do that. we also need to make sure the bill is that just about big insurance companies. it is currently $182 billion a stability fund which is a bailout on for the big insurance companies. it has to get back to block grants back to the states. that is state control. if connecticut wants single-payer, great. we don't need that in a place like utah. we can do much better at the le. a good dose of f

we have conservatives who want less mandate that leads to this ted cruz, mike lee amendment that would free up health insurers to offer up plans at a lower cost. different things i think they are trying to try in order to try to call that 50-note majority. but there is no magic pill. arthel: let's move on to various states. let's move on as we well know, candidate trump campaigned on repeal and replace obamacare, and he won the electoral college, 304 points to hillary clinton's 227. with 46% of the popular vote, is that considered a mandate? does president trump have some wiggle room of not breaking a campaign mandate if minority leader mcconnell can't deliver repeal and replace? >> whether he has a mandate or not, that's something all the american people, whether they voted for president trump or not wants to see healthcare fixed. definitely republicans want this repeal and replace. that's a campaign promise they are trying to keep. how they do it, they are not necessarily on the same page. they are saying if we can't couple with a plan now, let's repeal it. we have seen republican la

senators mike lee of utah and jerry moran of kansas have announced their opposition. moran said we should not put our stamp of approval on bad policy. that triggered a late-night tweet from the president, calling on republicans to "just repeal failing obamacare now and start from a clean slate." that is just what mitch mcconnell is going to do. the senate majority leader said that he will push the senate to pass a clean repeal bill. he said he will hold a vote in the coming days. larry: we are staying on top of breaking news and fairfax county. police finding a body in a pond in centerville on trinity parkway. police tell us the body is an adult male, but it is unclear how he died. stay with abc and wjla.com for updates. autria: a retrial getting underway today in montgomery county after a transgender woman is killed, allegedly at the hands of a longtime friend. londe is due back in court, charged with killing the woman in an alley in gaithersburg in 2015. the first trial lead to three days of jury deliberations, but ended in a mistrial. larry: the former teachers aid